TEA Party Day

When I first heard about this “TEA Party Day”, I though to myself, are they really going to be throwing tea into a body of water? As it turns out, this isn’t the case.  Nor will any attendants be dressing up like Indians or storming a wooden ship.

As a matter of fact, all of these things couldn’t be further from the truth.  TEA Party day is just a congregation of a group of (conservative) individuals who don’t like the idea of being taxed, and who probably clearly don’t understand that the upcoming tax increases will only affect the extremely wealthy.

Here in Chicago, Alan Keyes (who’s about as much of a Republican leader in Illinois as any of the others) will be speaking at our TEA Party Day rally.  It’s hard to decide what to think about this all, but I have a hard time believing any good can come from these “parties”.  Parties where people like Keyes are invited to speak.

I wish we could all just get back to work with a serious, more rigorous approach to policy than what amounts to a half-hearted, gimmicky version of an event that has a place in most American history books.

Happy TEA Party Day.

How charming.

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