It's not the spending that's bothering these idiots, it's who is doing the spending

The racists, the bigots and the rest of the sheep being led around by Fox News who showed up at all those tea parties yesterday -- you know, the ones whose ideologies got us in this economic mess were in, the ones who shouted all those slurs at the McCain/Plain rallies -- were not protesting government spending and taxation as they claimed, they are pissed about who's in charge these days. That's all.

Consider this. When President Clinton left office, the U.S. government was operating under a balanced budget. Now, eight years later, we are not only facing the largest budget deficit in our nation's history, but one that would take a contribution of $184,000 from every man, woman and child in this country to overcome. What happened during those eight years? George W. Bush.

But you never saw any Fox protests against the Bush's reckless spending that got us into this mess. No, because then the spending was being done by one of their own.

Every once in a while I'm glad that I'm an old codger who is not going to be around to see this country destroyed by hate, a day that is coming even sooner than I expected because of things like the misguided secessionist remarks offered by Gov. Hair during the Texas gatherings.

There is room in this country for honest, serious debate. That's the bedrock of our form of government. But the extremists who went to these tea parties don't want debate. They want to destroy. They don't disagree, they despise. They don't want to fix our country, they want to hurt something or somebody. (And they want to make sure they have plenty of guns to hurt someone with.)

It makes me cry whenever I look into the innocent eyes of my 3-year-old granddaughter. I want a better future than that for her. Hell, I just want a future for her.