Tea Party

Civil rights marches, antiwar protest, pro choice and pro life rallies, I love a good protest. I go to every one I can even if I don't agree with the cause. Wednesday was Tax Day for millions of Americans. The day is a pristine example of why Americans rallied all over America to protest taxes and the way their taxes are spent. The first tax protest took place in Boston in 1773 with a group of colonist protesting the British government. When Boston officials refused to return three ship loads of taxed tea to Britain a group of colonist boarded the ships and threw the tea into Boston Harbor.
I paid homage to my revolutionary forefathers by attending a Tea Party on Tax Day. I am sure Jefferson, Washington and Adams would have been proud of me. I am not a Socialist, Marxist or Fascist but I do have pretty liberal views. The fact of the matter is that all this Tea Party stuff is political at it's heart. Being the liberal Democrat that I am I probably don't have any right to throw any tea into Lady Bird Lake, Oh! I mean Boston Harbor. I did not see Paul Revere riding down Congress Ave in downtown Austin nor did I hear him hollowing "the British are coming, the British are coming" so what's all the fuss?
One lump or two, I'll take my tea straight! President Obama you can spend the nation's taxes any way you want. At least I know you will spend the taxes to benefit the masses not the rich few that the last president did.