Teabagging, Tempests and Taxes

Well, the teabaggers were out in varying sizes (or lack thereof) of force today, protesting everything from taxes to the president. I wonder just how many of them understand the conotations of being a "teabagger". As some of my friends woud say, *snerk*. They can't claim to have used th term first, but they will certainly be remembered for using it at all!

(Oh, go Google it! There are some rather graphic vids that leave no room for confusion.)

I wonder, though, why they are screaming about the taxes part. For a very large chunk of the American taxpaying public, Federal taxes went down on April 1. Were all those ordinary looking people I saw in the news reports not amongst my income group of under $75k per year? Are they pissed because they are just over that mark and aren't getting the reduction? Maybe that's it.

I also wonder where they were when the previous administration was running up the deficit, pouring money down the drain, often to good old boy buddies and their corporations. No-bid contracts from a president who believed that taking care of those BFFs with deep taxpayer pockets was the right thing to do must have made them think it was Christmas every day.

Where were the teabaggers then?

I could go on about the boatload of lies used to get this country into a war that wasn't necessary, taking our eyes off the real ball just next door. Now, how many years, how many hundreds of billions of dollars, how many lives of American service men and women have been wasted?

Where have the teabaggers been?

I could also talk about the off shore tax shelters used by big corporations in order to avoid paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes in the U.S. I could talk about the criminal lack of keeping the American infrastructure in good working order. (Yes, roads, bridges, schools, power generation.) There are so many things and so little time.

Hellooooo, teabaggers? Any of you there?

Now, the teabaggers are swallowing the hook, line and sinker dangled by Fox Noise, corporate lobbiests, and headline seeking talk show hosts in their "grassroots" campaign. I wonder if these people realize that they are the ones on the ground and the organizers are teabagging them?

Probably not.