Tea Flavored Kool-Aid, Part I: The Beginning of the Revolution

*Written by Rob Rimes.

1. Introduction:

Well, it isn’t like we couldn’t see this coming. I mean, how many times do we have to go down this road before we fucking get it? Really, how many? As with every major shift in power in American history, at least for the last several decades, the promises and “changed” philosophy were all for naught. This time was different they said. This time there is a grassroots movement that is taking the country by storm. This time the politicians have to listen. This time liberty will win! Yep, all bullshit. We are just over a month into the changing of the guard and already the freedom fighters have traded their ideals and morals in for a spot in the establishment and a long congressional career of further corruption. Why can’t they all be Rand Pauls? Granted, Paul is also in my sights, as are all the Beltway newbs.

2. The Issue of the PATRIOT Act:

What has sparked this disgust? To start, it was yesterday’s passing of extensions to one of the most tyrannical pieces of legislation in American history: the PATRIOT Act. Why is the PATRIOT Act tyrannical? Well, let me explain to the inept and apathetic lovers of blind and obedient complacency.

The PATRIOT Act, no matter how it is spun or sold to the sheepish masses, is an incredibly vile piece of legislation. At its core, it is unconstitutional and thus violates the rights of every American citizen that it touches, which is all of us. How is it unconstitutional?

Quite simply, the PATRIOT Act allows the police, FBI, DEA, ICE, ATF, U.S. Military and other federal agencies to spy on and investigate American citizens in ways that severely overstep their bounds. Essentially, it creates a massive police state where nearly everything you do can be monitored with just cause or not. It was created to counter terrorism, or so they claim. Realistically, it gives the government the power to peer into every facet of our lives and eliminates any chance of privacy, something that the Founding Fathers would have vehemently protested against.

The PATRIOT Act gives tyrannical power to the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA, both of which severely violate the 4th Amendment. Not only that but the implementation of the PATRIOT Act has cost America billions and billions of dollars, if not trillions, and the price tag is rising daily! All this tyranny for the false promise of safety!

It was Founding Father Benjamin Franklin who said:

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

So, how can the Constitution pimping Tea Party not be completely fucking pissed at their leaders Michele Bachmann (MN), Colonel Allen West (FL) and a shitload of others for slapping liberty in the face by voting to extend the PATRIOT Act? Their vote is a grave hypocrisy against the ideals that they supposedly represent.

Then again, maybe the Tea Party, or at least a large part of it, was just a grassroots movement to put the right side of the establishment back in power. Personally, I don’t think so but then again, it was these Tea Partiers that were quick to adopt Sarah Palin as their pageant queen without giving much thought to her big government track record as Governor of Alaska. I just assume that people are unaware of her fiscally irresponsible past and thus, just blindly buy what she’s selling today. With that said, lets see if these Tea Partiers get off of their lawn chairs and join in the disgust against their elected candidates who are apparently just chips off of the old establishment block.

With their PATRIOT Act vote, candidates like Bachmann and West fail completely in their promise to promote liberty and the Tea Party platform. Any other Tea Party candidate who voted alongside Bachmann and West are just as guilty and should have their feet held to the fire. Hell, their feet should be scorched as it wouldn’t really matter since none of them can walk tall anymore. You see, not only did they deliver us tyranny, but they also just spent billions more that we can’t fucking afford! Which brings me to my next point.

3. The Issue of Balancing the Budget:

When it comes to the budget, how well are these new Tea Party candidates going to do? I mean, all of them across the board became Tea Party candidates because they adopted the platform of fiscal responsibility going into the 2010 midterm elections. Our government has been spend crazy for years and everything is about to break and unless we cut spending and eliminate big government programs, we’re all pretty much fucking doomed. The Tea Party was created out of their mantra “taxed enough already!” So are the Tea Party candidates living up to these promises?

Well, if they voted on the PATRIOT Act extensions the answer is a solid “fuck no!” Michele Bachmann, Colonel Allen West and others like them have not only extended tyranny but they have dug the economic hole even deeper. However, the PATRIOT Act is not the only piece of expensive legislation that many Tea Party candidates support. The biggest pieces of legislation that many of these candidates endorse, as well as many Tea Partiers themselves, are the entitlements.

You see, the Tea Party candidates are all for ending entitlements unless it is their own. They want an end to the welfare state but not the welfare that they receive. “Cut everything!” they yell. “Stop spending!” they scream. Of course, that is everything except for social security, medicaid and medicare. Those programs are holier than thou, even though they are vampiring the shit out of Liberty’s neck. These three programs must be cut and completely eliminated. Until Tea Party candidates and the Tea Partiers themselves wake up to this, all their bitching and carrying on is pretty fucking pointless and hypocritical.

These programs ARE welfare for the silver haired demographic. If we are going to try and combat the welfare state it has to be across the board otherwise the battle is futile. You can’t pick and choose favorites, even though that is what the government does. In doing so, every little program proposal will weasel its way in and grow to be a gargantuan beast reliant on the nurturing care of the parental leviathan. We have to slay the shit out of that damned beast!

According to Reason Magazine:

As the 78 million baby boomers begin retiring over the next few years, under business-as-usual scenarios, spending on their Social Security and health care will more than double by 2050 to about 18 percent of the GDP. By 2052, Uncle Sam’s three entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—will consume all federal tax revenues, leaving nothing for government’s core, constitutional functions. America will have to either mortgage its entire economy by 2042 or raise federal income taxes by 81 percent in order to pay for the $107 trillion in health care and pensions it has promised seniors. Add to all this the 30 million uninsured Americans whom ObamaCare has put on Uncle Sam’s insurance card and you have the makings of the fiscal equivalent of Nightmare on Elm Street.

So, someone needs to stress this to Tea Party uber-econimist and “fiscal” hero Paul Ryan. In addition to Ryan: Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Michele Bachmann, Colonel Allen West, Marco Rubio, possible presidential candidates: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich, as well as several others, need to get this memo too. Truth is, they have the memo. They have all read it but instead, they would rather protect their fan base of hypocritical baby boomers instead of truly conforming and adapting to the reality of our economic peril. I guess the common sense approach to economics is too fucking much for the Tea Party contingent of Congress to swallow. You figured GOP “young guns” Cantor, Ryan and McCarthy who bashed the Obama administration and their own party would “get it” but maybe they are just motivated by books sales and not real fiscal legislation. I hate to think so but c’mon, where are the cuts? The only one who does “get it” is Kentucky senator Rand Paul, son of the World Champion of Liberty Ron Paul.

In fact, Rand Paul proposed $500 billion in spending cuts, just as a start to save the economy. The Tea Party led GOP aren’t too keen on that idea however. In fact, the 112th Congress’ complete ineptitude has never been more apparent in their short history than in regards to their laughable proposal to only cut $100 billion out of 2011′s monstrous $3.6 trillion dollar budget! Hell, they’ve been tugging their choads over those cuts already and the likelihood of even eliminating that miniscule amount is not looking good.

4. The Issue of Reneging On Promises:

It’s no big surprise that politicians renege on their campaign promises. Hell, every POTUS ever has failed to carry out their full mission. I’m also sure that there may have never been a single politician that has ever fully fulfilled their campaign objectives, at least not effectively. However these are Tea Party candidates, they are the first group of politicians to come along in decades that are storming Capitol Hill to truly represent the people. Unfortunately, the clock is ticking and so far, no good.

An example of this is happening in my own state. Florida’s newest senator Marco Rubio, as far as I am concerned, has not lived up to his promises. In fact, he has seemingly reneged on one of the three parts of his platform. Unluckily for me, he is my senator. At least I can sleep though, as he didn’t get my vote. My vote went to Libertarian Party candidate Alexander Snitker, someone who I hope runs again in 2012 for a Senate seat who is a true FairTax supporter.

So, as was told to the Florida FairTax group, an organization that I am a part of, Marco Rubio’s platform consisted of three objectives: term limits, balancing the budget and pushing the FairTax on Capitol Hill. Well, he has been in the senate for well over a month and he has not yet co-sponsored the FairTax bill. Lately, he has not even brought the subject of the FairTax up in his talking points. Something that was once a big part of his platform has now mysteriously vanished from his rhetoric.

If the FairTax is something that Rubio believes in, then why hasn’t he signed his name to the bill as a co-sponsor? I mean if he truly is for it, doesn’t he want to help it? He said he would push it and promote it and do anything in his power to see it pass. So is he helping it by not co-sponsoring it or by no longer even mentioning it? Hell no he’s not!

Recently in an interview, the subject of the FairTax was brought up and Marco pussyfooted around it in typical establishment fashion. Because of his abandonment of one-third of his platform, the leaders of the Florida FairTax group have reached out to him for answers. Unfortunately, but not surprising, he hasn’t responded and his office dances around it and gives the same bullshit half-assed excuses that politicians’ aides have been giving since the cavemen held their first caucus. With a third of his platform seemingly in limbo, that takes 33.3 percent off of his score and brings him down to 66.7 percent. In high school, that’s a D-! Not a lot of room to breathe there, is there homie?

I can’t honestly say that Marco Rubio has turned his back on the FairTax and the FairTax supporters who supported him but what the fuck am I and anyone else supposed to think? Get off your ass dude and co-sponsor the bill or face the wrath of the voter who will check your ass and take you out next election. Pretty boy looks and a neat haircut can’t save your ass from a voter scorned. If you are retracting from your proposed platform after preaching about false prophets and bitchass punks in politics, then you, my friend, will see the epitome of your verbal assault staring back at you in the mirror. Do the right thing Marco because now, more than ever, the people are watching and they are watching intensely.

5. Conclusion:

You see, now that the Tea Party took over the country and gave the GOP a major assist in getting back control of the House of Representatives, the politicians owe it to the American people to do what the fuck they said they were going to do! There is no time, the time is NOW! We aren’t sitting idly by giving you the benefit of the doubt. The benefit of the doubt was our vote on November 2nd of last year. Now you need to get to work because there is a lot of shit to clean up and a lot of work that has to get done. If the 112th Congress is not able to get it done, then there isn’t much hope. This isn’t a second chance, this is the last chance. Do what must be done because if this Congress fails, they’ll be added to the unemployment statistics.

Tea Partiers, wake up and do your research. Know who you are supporting inside and out. Watch these motherfuckers and don’t let them give you the run around. If us, as American voters, don’t ride these politicians hard, then they will continue to follow the familiar and comfortable path that brought us here. The fight didn’t end at the ballot box. The fight ends when tyranny is eradicated and our debt is wiped out. We all have to work hard and contribute to solving the problem. If any Tea Party candidates augment the problem, they must be called out for it and be forced to face the lovely music.