Tea Bagging The Stimulus

The people streaming through Public Square today were not protesting the violence in our city streets or the Kellen Winslow trade. The fifty or so protesters parading around in the rain with home-made signs were there to voice anger over taxes and government spending and communism and the long slow march towards collectivism. It kind of looked like a mini McCain-Palin rally.

The hatred for the stimulus bill and revocation of Reaganomics it represents were the inspiration for the series of nation-wide Tea Party's that were held in America's city's. The events were championed by a coalition of conservative groups and bloggers and held in numerous cities. Even ones that are in desperate economic straits and could use a boost from federal spending.

Michelle Malkin even went as far as to brand the movement as a counterculture of fiscal responsibility . Such parlance is typical to movement conservatism. Where was the fiscal restraint the past eight years? The winger histrionics have started and we're only five weeks into the Obama era.

Apparently there are some people in the greater Cleveland area that took Bobby Jindal's tuesday night speech seriously. Why use the power of government action to sand off the rough edges of the recessionary downturn? Tax cuts will make things all better.

So get out there Cleveland and stand up for your right not to have new roads and bridges. Don't let the government increase the tax burden on your wealthier friends. Surely we can have our never ending war in Iraq and not pay for that either. Tea Party!