let me start by stating that I acknowledge the limited effectiveness of a day of rallies. Protests in and of themselves have proven to do very little. However, I continue to hope that maybe … just maybe … enough momentum can be gained by these efforts that a real awakening can occur.

OK, that being said, those of you who are labeling the tea parties as being comprised of a bunch of racist neo-Nazis who left the tea party to head straight to a cross burning are completely asinine. (I doubt most Klan morons couldn’t even spell Atlas Shrugged

, let alone read it or even bother to crack the cover. And, before you respond, I know that a lot of people attending the tea parties today haven’t read it, either.) Most of the men and women who took part in the rallies/protests today had never taken part in such a demonstration before. A great majority of them were the working-class Americans for which liberals have such great pity because they aren’t smart enough to vote in their own economic interests. They were not Republican or Democrat. Were almost all of the protesters white? Yes. Were almost all of the protesters who took to the National Mall time and again to protest the Iraq War white? Again, yes. Does that automatically make either cause wrong? No. What else have you got as evidence of supposedly racist intentions other than the fact that most of the people who showed up today were pale faces?

Please don’t give me that garbage that today was really a protest against a black president. There were more comments and signs targeted at the likes of Pelosi, Reid, and Dodd than President Obama. I think it’s no more complicated than the fact that years of disgust with the spending of both Democrats AND Republicans have finally reached a boiling point. The Democrats just have been particularly good at it for the past two plus years (counting when they took over Congress) without taking any responsibility or blame for the problem (yeah, Barney Frank’s hands are really clean when it comes to the Freddie and Fannie debacle).

Second, the “teabagging” jokes are so juvenile. Guess what? We get the reference. You aren’t pulling one over on the naive conservatives. “Ha, ha … Sean Hannity likes to teabag in public!” “Giggle, giggle … Newt Gingrich is a teabagger!” Come on! Are you all twelve-year-olds who have been watching too many reruns of Beavis and Butthead?