To not know the tea party is to love it
In the Herald’s Oct. 2 coverage of the tea party convention, Rep. Joe Walsh inadvertently explained its true effect upon the country so far by stating, “We have a built-in advantage in that no one understands us. Most people have no clue as to what the tea party movement is.”
Thus most people who voted for them in 2010 must not have known exactly what they were voting for. This explains Rep. Walsh’s election, and his advantage is obviously participating in one of the largest, best-organized, and most well-funded (with all of that Koch brothers’ billionaire money) frauds in American history. If you think I’m exaggerating, look at what the tea party Congress has done so far: not a single jobs bill has passed, and they’re currently wavering on a get-tough-on-China bill because American corporations love to invest and ship jobs there.
They have, on the other hand, passed 12 abortion bills, are trying desperately to prevent millions of Americans from voting in future elections, and they literally took food out of the mouths of babies when they cut the funding for the infant nutrition program. Right now they’re trying to cut funding so that poor, mostly elderly Americans can have heat this winter.
What have they done with the banks you might ask; defend them at every turn against the kind of regulations that kept us from having financial collapses since the Great Depression. Hardly what you voted for? You ever get the feeling you’re being used? Don’t ask Joe Walsh, because it’s to his political, electoral advantage if you “don’t understand” the movement. I don’t really understand it either, but I know it stinks!
William S. Beisiegel Jr.
Schaumburg