@BlogKCTomorrow the local wingnut crowd will gather at the Liberty Memorial for the Tax Day Tea Party, where they will urge Americans to “teabag” Congress and the President. Is it ironic that they chose a venue known for illicit sex acts as their platform to encourage us to perform a sex act on the President? Or is it just ironic in the Alanis Morrisette sense?
(Google “teabag” if you don’t follow the references…)
You should definitely not google “teabag” if you are at work, however. I had no idea Liberty Memorial was an area for sex acts, although it is a giant phallic monument so I suppose it makes sense.
Come on folks. Expected more from this site than the “teabagging” reference. You aren’t tonyskansascity for crying out loud.
I think it says a lot about a person’s, or organization’s, corruption when an innocuous reference to a colonial insurgency spurs obscure sexual innuendo as a reaction.
It says a lot when a group has no better ideas to help this country than a few violently Anti-Obama cranks getting together and pretending to dump tea.
Not one of these “angry Constitutionalists” were raising their voice in protest while Bush put our country in this fiscal quagmire, but now less than 4 months into Obama’s term, these wackos are yelling about losing their rights and calling for secession?!?
These people are lunatics and UNAMERICAN.
Try to look at things from a historical perspective. The original Tea Party was due in large part to the fact that the colonists had no say over the taxes being imposed on them.
Fast forward to today, and we’ve had the Bush Administration push the first bailout, and now the Obama administration is following suit.
Regardless of who you vote for, you don’t seem to have much of a say in what goes on. This is contrary to what the founding fathers were trying to achieve so the people have taken to the streets to show their disapproval.
I think it’s great that people are finally getting involved (record turnouts across the country in the Pres. election, tea parties, etc…)
JT, you are wrong – you DO have a say.
We ALL have a say.
America is a REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
ALWAYS has been. This is in NO WAY contrary to the founding fathers.
It works like this: You are a busy person with a job and not much time, so you elect a representative to REPRESENT you. This happens on the city, county, state, and national level.
If you are unhappy with your representatives, you can write them, call them, form petitions, or you could run for office yourself.
But just because you voted for McCain or Ron Paul doesn’t mean you aren’t being represented or that Democracy itself is in peril, it just means you LOST the election.
If you don’t like how that feels, blame the 69% of Americans who approve of our current president.
Chris,
While I agree with everything you said, I think JT’s point was that he feels like his elected officials represent their own interests and agenda rather than those of their constituents. However, again in agreement with you, the quickest way to solve that is to vote in new representation with the understanding that the nose needs to be to the grindstone.
You are probably right – that is mostly likely what JT meant, but I am really getting tired of hearing people (i.e. Republican sore losers) who after just a few months of Obama as President start screaming that our goverment is being destroyed, or protesting their taxes when the reality is that Obama is LOWERING taxes for middle class Americans.
Only the rich will pay more in taxes, and quite frankly considering our economic situation, I think the rich should do their PATRIOTIC DUTY and pay these taxes gladly to help pull us out of this horrible recession instead of their endless selfish complaining.
To me it has little to do with “Left” or “Right”. Spending at the Federal level has been out of hand for a VERY long time. And while there are plenty of Republican sore losers, that does not invalidate their point (that giving bailouts to big corporations is not good for the economy and is an extremely wasteful spending practice).
I’m not trying to get into a partisan debate because I see where everyone is coming from. But I disagree that only rich people will pay more in taxes, as witnessed by the giant increase of the cigarette tax at the federal level. This tax increase will be paid for by mostly the poor and working class.
I do agree that a high turnover rate in Congress would definitely benefit us all, as they seem to be self-serving instead of serving their constituency.