The Tea Party ? Give me a break

Why has every one who delves and dabbles in politics lost their mind ? Why has the average schmo, put so much effort into this so called "Tea Party" movement? Why does it get so much airplay, Sarah Palin notwithstanding.

Just what is this Tea Party anyway ?

Well for one, it's not a party. When they all get together, its really a rock concert where every person attending gets to bitch and moan and gripe a little bit about how bad things are. Then they all start drinking from the Jones town Kool-Aid, singing the same song about change and electing new members of Congress because the ones we have now suck. They also want to make a huge hairy deal about how the Tea Party is not about current affiliation, because they have members who are of every political persuasion. Didn't we just go through the other side of this sheet of music by electing Mr. Yes We Can ?

Well, huh? Is what I say . In affect they are saying "We are not the extreme right or the extreme left, we are the middle !". So to speak. Nothing real radical about that. It's how Reagan won, it's how Clinton won and it's why the current situation is going to be a footnote in a couple of years. Extremists never fare well because they do not represent the whole.

See, here's the problem with the whole ideology of the "Tea Party".

The so called “Tea parties” vision that this is a perfect time to start bashing the other side in an attempt to win votes and change control of the House and Senate, is actually a very good short term strategy. We , the masses yearning to breathe free, love a good slogan, "Yes we do", Yes we did, Oh my God !"

The problem is that even if they are successful in ousting every Democratic incumbent and succeed in defeating Obama in the next election, the day they take office all of the issues that exist today, still exist and you haven’t helped me or anybody else in the meantime one little bit by executing this strategy.

You won, so what? What changed for us? How did I get help right now? Even if you win, I still lose because you will take another 5-8 years to do anything at all and we (the tired and huddled masses) cannot wait that long.

In Ten Years my college senior will have been in the work force for ten years, be 32 years old, and all that will have happened as a result of this crap is that another bunch of clueless politician/lawyers will have been elected, sent to Congress to sit on their hands and worry about being elected in the next election.

Does this make sense to anyone ?

I feel like I am in the movie , where I woke up from a nap to an unearthly quiet, went outside my New York City apartment only to see nothing moving and no people and discovered that I am the last person alive. Everyone else drank the kool aid.

I don't know if I am right, but it is not time for change. We have had a belly full of change for changes sake and now we got the guy from the mail room in charge of the country. Its time for somebody to be brave enough to stand up and say "A politicians job is to represent, not to be re-elected."

Here is a radical idea.

How about Politicians who do the freaking job we elected them to do in the first place !!

Now there, is some change I can believe in.

I realize that I probably do not have a majority view on this subject, because the majority view is to only suggest those things that can be passed, not to act on those things that actually will make a difference.

This is what pisses me off.

Its why I bother to write these in the first place. I don't care if anybody read this or listens to it or even acts upon it, but , it pisses me off nonetheless. How about You ?


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bigmike

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