[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Option 1: It's a protest of the bank bailouts orchestrated by Bush and now Obama. But surely these tea-partiers understand what would happen if we didn't bail the banks out. Are they advocating letting major banks fail?

It's called the Free Enterprise system, Andrew. Some banks will fail due to their short-sighteness and greed, and other, stronger banks step in to take up the slack. Sure we'd have some pain as this happens, but the entire system would emerge stronger. It's not government's place to meddle.

Option 2: It's a protest against tax hikes. But there have barely been any!

Oh, just you wait. BOHICA!

Option 3: It's a protest against illegal immigration. Ok, so why the tea? Weren't all the original tea-partiers illegal immigrants?

Really weak, Andrew. The founding fathers were illegal aliens? I don't remember them sneaking past the Indian ICE agents from my history books.

Option 4: It's a protest against government debt. Yay! I will leave aside the somewhat awkward fact that Fox News and Pajamas Media barely covered the massive debt racked up by the Republicans during a period of economic growth.

Should have been checking FR. We've been raving about it for years!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Weren't all the original tea-partiers illegal immigrants?

Stupid Brit needs to brush up on history. Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630; Tea Party was in 1773. I think the people living in Massachusetts in 1773 were certainly native-born, not illegal immigrants.

Besides..."But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism" perfectly describes what we are living under today. And we all know it's not just Obama, but the growth of the federal government leviathan ever since FDR. This is most definitely a "long train of abuses and usurpations."

[acsrp38]

If I remember right the inspiration for tea parties was not from Fox, it was a CNBC reporter.