Tea'd-Up!

Tea Party Protest, Washington D.C. September 12, 2009

Are you Tea'd-Up with hearing the constant barrage of insults and attacks leveled at the Tea Party? It's almost become common place to hear the words Tea Party interchanged with words like extremism, radicals, racists, and forces of evil. I guess we shouldn't be too surprised. If former President Bill Clinton will suggest that half of the nation needs a shrink (see video below), and then our current President indicates that half of the nation is scared, not thinking straight, and therefore may vote Republican on November 2nd, hey...why not, let's drag the Tea Party through the deepest mud pits we can find!

With all the un-sportsmanship and un-statesmanship like conduct of the progressive left, just what the Tea Party movement is all about has certainly been muddied. And it hasn't helped to have a media that goes along with it - well, except for that...

Is the President sending American jobs overseas?

Certainly the events of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which resulted in the loss of life and oil spilling into the Gulf waters, was a tragic accident. (By the way, as a side note, why did we see and hear more news on the birds and turtles suffering from the oil slick than we did on the families that lost loved ones and livelihoods?) Of course, this accident most likely would not have happened had the many layers of government regulators been doing their jobs. Additionally tragic, is the loss of jobs and economic activity due to the outrageous ban on oil production in the Gulf. (There is nothing quite like making private industry pay for the Government's ineptness) Why hasn't mainstream media broadcast in bold the 36 rigs in the Gulf of Mexico that have been put out of work, or the five rigs that have left for Egypt and other parts of Africa, and the roughly 8,000 to 12,000 jobs lost?