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I want the government out of my life. To me, the TEA Party is more than just being taxed enough - it is rolling back the over-regulation of my life. From insane OSHA regulations to an FDA that is overreaching to ‘gay’ rights to the financial regulations in the Patriot Act to the ADA - I want these rolled back and off the cliff into the chasm of ‘this was a really bad idea.’

For a lot of RINOS, this is an incredibly alien concept. They want ‘gay marriage’, believing that gays are somehow restricted from marrying. They aren't - there's no sexual orientation test - simply a compliance with the meaning of a word that has existed throughout our cultural history - marriage is a union of a man and a woman. Fine, make a homosexual shacking up law, whoopee. But changing the meaning of something to fit the liberal trend of the moment is a shockingly bad idea.

My world has risks - as it stands now, an OSHA inspector can walk into virtually any business, pick some random government regulation, arbitrarily fine the business, and inform them that if they do not fix that problem, next time it's a higher fine. It is completely counter to the central tenant of our judicial system that you are innocent until proven guilty, and you can't be proved guilty unless declared by your peers. No judge, no jury, just some government drone who can bankrupt a business with the scribble of a pen.

ADA act is open season for any lawyer who wishes to attack a business. Do you have braille on your keypad for entering a pin? Nope? Here's your lawsuit. Does this store have a counter at the right height for a wheelchair bound customer? Nope? Here's your lawsuit. And all of these lawsuits come with automatic class action status - it's not just the complainant's ‘rights’ that they're suing for, and punishing for, it's every single one that may or may not have entered the business.

Worse is the billions we've spent making every single school have an ADA compliant playground, every school bathroom be wheelchair and walker compliant, every classroom door adjusted for a mythical wheelchair student. A school near me which has never had a wheelchair bound student spent 1.7 million dollars in making the school compliant with ADA regulations. Result? Playground equipment that goes half unused, a quarter of the restrooms lost, and a drastically increased maintenance budget of more than $80,000 per year, just to keep those ‘upgrades’ working.

Constitution says ‘limited time’ - congress interprets this to mean ‘a lifetime plus seventy years.’ Yet the 2nd appears to be the only part that the drones want to interpret as narrowly as possible.

It is not chaperoning adults in the bedroom when you say ‘no’ to corrupting the meaning of marriage. It is not an invasion or over-regulation by government when you say that ‘if you want condoms, go buy them.’ Overturning Roe v Wade is correcting judicial activism, not invading someone’s womb.

And taking the side of liberals on all these issues and then whining when the few conservatives in the GOP actually act like conservatives, that they embarrass you in front of other liberals, means you're in the wrong party.