Tea Party Extremist are Normal Americans

The "Tea Party Extremist" we hear about from Washington Elites and the media are NORMAL AMERICANS. The EXTREMISTS are in WASHINGTON!

It is interesting to say the least that now even the republicans and the media are reporting the typical liberal, progressive tripe about the Tea Party Extremists. They talk about it like the Tea Party was an actual political party. Worse still they have forgotten that all the Tea Party is, is a movement of average Americans that have finally gotten fed up with government out of control, both in spending and in regulation.

The Tea Party is NOT a political party. It is average Americans who want back their America the way the founding fathers gave it to us.

Why is it that no one in the media including Fox News challenges representatives when they make a statement about the extreme view of the Tea Party, why don't they ask what is extreme about only spending money on things you have money for? What is extreme about asking people to be responsible with their debt? What is extreme about not wanting to sink the nation in debt.

The views of the media and the Washington elite are so out of whack with reality it is frightening. Since has doing the responsible thing been considered extreme. As mentioned when they say Tea Party and use derrogatory terms like extreme to describe them they are really calling the American people extreme.

Every American out to be outraged by this behavior both from the media and the Washington elite.

It is not like you apply for a membership card. It is not even like you have to go to a rally or be conservative. Though the media paints the Tea Party as nothing but extreme conservatives it is made up of a mix of almost every strata of the political spectrum.

It is like Obama blaming the political system. He is basically saying there is something wrong with the American form of government. If he meant there was something wrong with the people in Washngton, he would be absolutely correct, but then he should also remember that HE IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON!

As for the gall of such a one as Harry Reid, to talk about this whole situation being the fault of the republicans; while neither he nor any other democrat has proposed any plan or at least any serious plan to actually fix the problem. He makes sure to TABLE any plans sent to the senate and yet it is somehow the fault of the republicans. Is anyone really buying this?

It seems not ONE of the establishment Washington people can stand the idea of actually cutting real spending in the here and now. This is the reason we're in the shape we're in.

They're all trying to figure out how to word a bill that they hope will make no really changes in Washington at all, but will look like it does so they can present it to the American people, claim they did something and not lose their constituency.

This insanity has to stop. We don't want to them to cut the rate of GROWTH in spending. We want them to cut back on real spending. We want them to spend less this year than they did last year. If that means some things need to go I would hope they would be able to prioritize what the real job of the Gov't is.

But this is the problem, republicans and democrats alike hold progressive views. They believe it IS the job of government to take care of people in their old age. They believe it is the job of government to provide health care, they believe it is the job of government to provide for people who are out of work. They even believe it is the job of government to see how fast shrimp can run on treadmills.

If our founders really felt these things were suppose to be the job of government would they have written it into the original constitution?

We need to stop redefinin words and thus making them meaninless and useless. When normal people talk about cutting spending they mean just that, but when Washington uses the word they don't mean that at all. They mean cutting the rate of ncrease in spending, so that they're still spending more than they were before, but just not as much more as they planned on spending.

The media doesn't call them on this, and because most people don't even know who their congressman is they certainly wouldn't know how they've tortured the English language so that they can use a word mean one thing by it, but know the the people will understand it to mean what it has always meant. This is their way of justifying to themselves that the American people are really behind them.

The American people are only behind them because they think the people in Washington are genuinely behind them and are doing what the people want them too. All the while nothing could be further from the truth.

Our leaders are fiddling while Rome burns. Anyone that could spend our hard earned money on shrimp treadmills is a person that could vote for a horse to be a senator. We are in the days of the fall of Rome and don't even recognize it. All our leaders are concerned about is managing the decline of our Nation not preventing it and the media isn't helpng any.