Tea, anyone?

What is just so unbelievable about the tea party protests is that they're not being honest with themselves. During the six years that Bush had Congress under Republican control, he never met a spending bill he didn't like. During the eight years of the Bush Presidency, the national debt doubled from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. The money was spent on exorbitant tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that favored the rich, on a bloated Medicare prescription drug program, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (which Bush conveniently excluded from his rosy budget forecasts every year). Those tax protesters in the streets were nowhere to be found during the Bush era, but 100 days into Democrat Barack Obama's Presidency, all of a sudden they come out of the woodwork. This is not a coincidence. I prefer the policy of pay-as-you-go, which the Democrats reinstated when they took over Congress in January 2007, as opposed to the Bush Republican policy of borrow-and-spend. The latter got us into this mess in the first place, and yet to keep Bush spending at current levels it is necessary to increase taxes. President Obama is seeking tax money from those that received the most over the past eight years, and it's high time for them to pony up.