Protest or Pity-Party?

It is hard not to think that the tea party protestors want to use the power of the checkbook to starve government programs which benefit anyone but themselves. I don’t believe they only want to reign in government excess and debt.

They target as discretionary spending "benefits" paid to people not like them. Benefits paid to them -- Social Security, Medicare, the unlimited mortgage tax deduction, -- these are justified entitlements, not waste or pork or socialism. The other exception to any “financial controls” is Military Defense. They see themselves as so very threatened by the rest of the world, it seems as they don’t believe Reagan won the Cold War and defeated communism.

These 18 percent of Americans think they are entitled to more of a voice than others or they wouldn't be complaining that nobody is listening to them. They have comfortable middle class lives, yet they are angry about everything.

And then there are the gun lovers who say we can trust them not to kill us (if we behave), but we can’t trust anyone else not to try to kill us, all the time.

Palin's target practise

If Sarah Palin is really only using rifle scopes and phrases like "reload" as metaphors for fighting back with votes against Democrats, can we all agree that the 2nd Amendment refers only to the right to "metaphorical" guns as well?