I went to the Tax Day Tea Party in Lansing on April 15. It was a beautiful day, and a nice time at the party. The crowd numbered about 4,000 by my estimate, and was super nice and well behaved. I met folks from all over the state, saw Joe the Plumber, and basically commiserated about our excessive government with like minded folks who are also upset at the direction our country has taken.
There is coverage all over the internet, but this excerpt from Hot Air summarizes my feelings on the matter pretty well: York: Look for Tea Party meaning in the small towns
"Just as the raiders protested tax policies imposed on them from a distant and mostly unresponsive British government, the American people have finally tired of power moving away from localities and states and to a federal government much more interested in pork patronage than in the actual priorities of each community.
That impulse does not belong solely to the Democratic Party. Republicans have fed at the pork trough, which creates more federal power over the money of the American people and less control over the governance by the citizenry. The founders never envisioned having the entire nation run by 535 people in the District of Columbia, with the states subservient to the mandates of Congress and the President. They imagined a nation that mostly governed itself, with a federal government that had the authority to enforce the Constitution and to defend itself."
Translation: it's a lot easier to prevent Mayor DeSana from spending $1.5 million on a useless marina than it is to keep Momma Kilpatrick from giving $1.5 million to those thugs from ACORN.
I'm sure there will be more Tea Parties. And I think this kind of grass roots activism will make a difference in 2010.
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