Of tea parties and mad hatters

I have to admit I have gotten a kick out of most of the media's approach to the tea parties which are being held around the country today (April 15th). The same reporters and networks who, in the past, have marveled at turnouts for causes they supported, are absolutely beside themselves with loathing for the tea parties. I've heard numerous references to the tea parties not being grass roots, being instead funded by the very rich, or conservative foundations, or the republican party. Not once did I see any reference to who exactly was supposedly doing the funding. Details don't seem to matter in this case, just the smear.

What a surprise that the talking heads who went so far out of their way to impugn the reputations of anyone who opposed Barack Obama last year would express disdain for Americans who actually might disagree with the economic policies of the federal government, not just this year, but in recent years. Many of those who are speaking out against the rampant spending and debt and power centralization by the federal government were also complaining about those same things last year when the president was named Bush. Most republicans have voted against the huge spending bills beginning last fall and almost all democrats have voted for them. Many republicans, democrats, independents, liberals and conservatives are concerned about the massive deficit spending and what it may do to our dollar, our country and future generations.

None of that matters for those self-appointed guardians of Obama as they make it more obvious every day that their focus is not the truth or the well being of Americans; rather it is to prop up their ideological commitments at any cost. If someone is right simply because they support one person's policies and wrong simply because they oppose the policies of that person, then it is a question of whose team you are on, not who actually happens to be right or wrong at that given moment. You can keep that approach. I reject it, whether it is the approach of liberals or conservatives. More accurately, it seems the approach of a mad hatter.