Take away some of the inflammatory rhetoric and you COULD be left with the desire to have the Tea Party supporters simply THINK THROUGH the consequences of acting on their stated desires.

It's just a new version of the old "cut the OTHER guy's pork - mine's necessary" thinking.

The Tea Part wants to cut small potatoes while ignoring many of the HUGE ticket items - and by the same token, Obama contributes to the Social Security problem by continuing the ill-conceived payroll tax cut that does nothing but move up the time that Social Security runs out of T-Bills to cash in! (remember, we still got a HUGE increase in jobs when Reagan compromised with Tip O'Neill and hiked the FICA tax to temporarily 'save' Social Security so the "it'll kill jobs" argument rings hollow)