Quick Hitters

Attendance at Tax Day Tea Parties appears to be significantly up.  MSM are changing their depiction of tea partiers from stupid angry rural male racists to upper class angry evil businessmen racists.  Sure is hard to account for all the women pushing strollers in the photos I see. Polls show that anywhere from 25-35% identify with tea party, in some surveys out-polling both dems and republicans.

Congress meanwhile polls about a 20% positive while the tea party has 40-50% positives.  The MSM - 10%.

Number of house races now considered in play? Over 80.  Republicans are predicted to pick up anywhere from  25-40 by "experts".  If nothing significant happens to change the political landscape between now and November, I predict a minimum of 35 and possibly 60 seats change to the R column.  40 is now the magic number for control of house to change, with a couple of special elections coming in next few months.  Magic number could be as low as 38 come November.

NBA Finals prediction: Cavaliers vs. Mavericks.  (Yes, I'm a Mavs fan).

Have a Nice Tea Party!

"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional discourse by boorish expressions of doubt."   John Ralston Saul 

Leftist like Mr. Saul should be celebrating!  Huge numbers of citizens have risen from their slumber and are voicing many expressions of doubt.  The liberal press certainly thinks them boorish and rude (not to mention racist) so Mr. Saul and his ilk should be doubly happy.  I suspect he isn't.

We all recall that our founding fathers were suspicious of government, even, or perhaps especially,  the one they were creating.  Their  greatest fear was that the government would grow too large or too powerful. No doubt they would be shocked at the leviathan we have today.  Untiring vigilance is required to keep the monster in check, and as citizens we have failed over the last couple of decades to exercise that vigilance.  It is human nature to relax and enjoy when things seem to be going well.  Reagan brought the beast, if not into submission, at least to heal, and conservatives became complacent with more than fifteen years of economic growth.  While 9-11 was the wake up call to the dangers we had invited in our foreign policy, we did not understand the economic problems that both democrats and republicans in Washington were creating with their policies of promoting risky lending and investment, and ignoring and even adding to burgeoning entitlement programs.

Now the citizenry is awake in the form of the Tea Parties!  Too much spending, too much debt, too many taxes, a government completely out of control and even less honest now than in the past.  Once again we must put on armor and take up sword and fight the good fight against an out of control congress and entrenched bureaucracy.  We must once again bring the dragon under our control, rather than allowing it to run loose as we have the last decade.  Besides the brewing tea party that is coming the first week of November, there is no better time than April 15th to find a tea party to attend.  Join your fellow countrymen and rally support for fiscal responsibility.  Have a great tea party!

And as Mad Eye Moody admonished: Constant vigilance!