Tea Bags & Tea Parties

If tea bagging is a somewhat perverse sexual act the current tea parties are clearly perverse political acts. Our founding revolutionaries didn't have tea bag parties in Boston Harbor. The tea bag wasn't invented till 1904.

Demonstrations and street theater against taxation without representation do have a long and honorable history. What they don't have is any connection to the current political stunt. Sure, I understand that few want to pay taxes. Me too neither. But if people are protesting taxes, shouldn't they be rejoicing that the top rate is no longer 91% as under President Eisenhower? No one's taxes have gone up since Clinton. So what is the protest? Oh, it's about taxes going up some day. This isn't a political dog that will hunt. We are taxed and we are represented. So the point is?

Okay, some are understandably upset about the bailouts. Good. Me too also! But shall we look at who is getting the benefit of the bailouts? Banks. Investment banks. Stockbrokerages. Insurance companies. So, the Republicans have whipped up the mob to protest a tax raise that hasn't happened and a bailout that is for the benefit of mostly Republicans. I need something stronger than tea!
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