For most of us, just answering that Obama is like Bush on steroids explains it pretty well. This goes a bit further and for me, answers the question with implications for politicians of all stripes. The whole article is worth reading, I'm just posting the issue that keeps recurring:
American Thinker: MSM's Tea Party Cognitive Dissonance
....Many posed the questions, during their Tea Party coverage, "Why all this anger now? Why are these people protesting now, when they weren't out in the streets during GW's eight years?"
Why indeed. The ordinary American -- normally quite-silent majority -- will take an awful lot of malfeasance and wasteful spending from our federal government. Most of the time, we are just too darned busy to protest anything. We are not getting paid to protest, unlike the anti-war and anti-poverty protesters our media covers in never-ending flurries of fury. We don't get federal tax dollars to protest, as does ACORN, and we have no sugar-daddy like Soros paying us stipends to lend a deceitful public-protest face to his personal views.
We're the productive class, the vast middle. We're busy living our own lives, busy building the businesses and earning our livings, busy raising our children and doing the host of volunteer services that infuse life into our Churches, Synagogues and civic organizations. We're the citizens doing the lion's share of those things which have made America the great and exceptional Nation she has been for the past 2-1/3 centuries.
Much of the anger now boiling over in protest has been building for the past 20 years, since the end of Ronald Reagan's presidential tenure. Much of it is aimed at Republicans, not just Democrats. And it goes to the heart of the size, scope and fundamental duties of the federal government as enumerated by our U.S. Constitution.
This mounting anger, aimed at the tyranny of a federal government -- completely off-the-rails of its Constitutionally-framed limited scope and power -- may be surfacing now due to a tipping in the fragile balance that was upheld during the G.W. Bush presidency. What was that fragile balance between our quietly continuing our personal business and our taking to the streets?
One thing and one thing only, in my opinion. As long as the federal government is doing the one job of protecting our national security and standing up for us in the face of the world's sleights, we will take a great deal of folderol from our elected officials. We will suffer the profligate spending and invasions on our personal freedoms when we - at the very least - believe our leaders are stridently bent on protecting our interests and our children from harm.
When a president cuts both those legs off at the knees, as President Obama has shamelessly done for 100 days, then frustration boils over into national protest.
Obama's first 100 days has been the last straw. ...
Reagan was one of the biggest spenders increasing the size of Govt in recent history. Why is he excused from the ire?
And if the conservatives were so upset with Bush, they had a funny way of showing it. In 2004 they relected him to office.
Why I am a tea party protestor
Being a tea party protestor myself--I'll tell you when it hit me. You see the original article is right. I don't mind having to spend money to clean up after 9/11--I don't mind spending money to go after Al Queda--the ones that killed 3000 Americans. I don't mind spending money to clean up after Hurricane Katrina & the help we had to send down to New Orleans to help the citizens there.
But--last year it started with Bear Stearns--the bail-out, then it was Fannie/Freddie/ then it was AIG--then it was we needed to bail out our irresponsible neighbors because they bought too much home. Then it was the Auto workers. After looking into the situation of how this came about--it became clear to me--that it was government's mis-management of Fannie/Freddie that brought us to ground zero of this economic collapse. And now they were taking our money to fix the mess they created.
To add to that our incompetent government signed a 787 Billion dollar stimulus bill that they didn't even read. Here we are Americans that are hurting financially. Americans are losing their jobs, their retirements, their homes, & the values of their homes are plummeting, while our government loaded this bill with
20 BILLION dollars for
Acorn. 98 million dollars for Hollywood to buy film with, 75 million dollars for smoking cessation, 640 million to build a train from Disneyland to Las Vegas, 64 Million dollars for retention bonuse's for AIG executives, & 200+ million bonuses for Fannie/Freddie executives.
After signing off on this one, our government then proceded as quickly as they could to get the Ominus bill passed, which was another multi- billion dollar bill that was loaded with over 9000 earmarks from both democrats & republicans.
President Obama's new proposed budget that has already passed the house--
3.9 TRILLION will in effect give the goverment a
no limit credit card with our kids & grandkids names all over it. It's already passed the house it is in the senate waiting for approval.
DID YOU KNOW: For an average 20 year old--heading into the work force this 3.9 TRILLION dollar bill will cost them
$114,000.00 in
INTEREST alone over their working years. For a 40 year old, they will be paying
$138,000.00 in
INTEREST alone on this budget.
This is not a partisan issue, it is an American issue. If this message doesn't get you off the couch to head your next tea party, I don't know what will?
