The Teabaggers

I've been reading lots about the so-called Teabaggers. They had a convention in Nashville last weekend where 600 hearty souls showed paying $549 a head for the privilege of hearing speakers question Obama's citizenship, rail about deficit spending without in any way suggesting how they would cut federal spending or raise taxies (God forbid!) to balance the budget, and the usual tirades about states rights and socialized medicine (what is Medicare if not socialized medicine?) And of course, there was Sarah Palin reading her notes off her hands.

Sure, there is the usual racial element in all of this. There is the usual right-wing nonsense that surfaces in this country every 10 years or so when Democrat is in the White House. Historically, there is nothing new about the Teabaggers.

However, I do think there is genuine and proper anger in this country about the bankers, the callous indifference of some politicans about the suffering going on in the heartland, and the long-term sustainability of govermental obligations. Sure, we need changes, but they won't come from these rightly in some ways angry people but completely wrong in any of their solutions.