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April 16, 2009

Tea Party

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He wore a "IRS Ribbon" made out of a dollar bill on his lapel

I live in a rather...well...Red area of the United States. It's an unusual thing for me, being a yank that protested the US entry into the Iraq War, and one who actually enjoys paying taxes. I decided to take a gander at the Pullman-Moscow Tea Party yesterday. It claims to be an apolitical movement aimed at bringing Fiscal Responsibility back to the government. About all that I can ask is: where were these people for the last eight years?

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Not bad for a town of 20,000 (mostly college students, few of who would come to something like this)

Political movements are generally dumb. Even my involvement with protesting the Iraq war was. Protests are by their nature single-issue and tend to ignore what doesn't fit into the ideology of that single issue. One protestor had a sign indicating that their representative wasn't representing them...I asked who their representative was, and they did not know. More troubling was that there was no mention of the Constitutional Convention to bring about the Balanced Budget Amendment. There was no plan put forth at all by the speaker, just complaining about the way things are now (no mention that this is how they've been for 8-10 years). There seems to be a wide margin between "Deficits don't matter" conservatives, and the libertarians of the Tea Party. With all the infighting, maybe I'll be able to get married sooner rather than later.

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