[alexamenos]

I had a nice chat with a fellow yesterday who attended one of the Tea Parties. He's a helluva good guy genuinely well intentioned etc., etc....

Long story short -- Tea parties = fail.

The main thing he took away from it was that people were by and large upset with how their tax dollars are being spent rather than how much of their dollars were being taken. So, the tea party thing looks more like a debate between Janett Reno and 92youknowwho over how the government should spend the last 0.004% of it's 3.6 trillion dollar budget rather than a debate over anything that would make a difference...

Democrats and Republicans -- there ain't a dime's worth of difference. The Tea Parties are just the Republican Party's Moveon.org.

if voting changed anything, we wouldn't get to do it every 2 years.