Another name for Tea Party is weary middle class

So who is, or, what are the Tea Parties? Dial into Washington and you hear words like racists, Nazis, "astro turf", right wing radicals, and on and on and on. Bill Clinton warns or violent "code words", and the leaders of Congress talk about "dialing down the rhetoric".

So, has some new para-military movenment sprung up in America? Just what are the Tea Parties? No one seems to know!!!

Wrong!!

Of all places, an obscure column written in the even more obscure Vicksburg Post by its executive editor Charlie Mitchell nails this to the wall! Read it all here very carefully.

The Washington crowd of politicians and media folk pretends not to understand who the Tea Party folks are, where they come from and what makes them tick.

One-size-fits-all descriptions are incomplete, but here’s the gist. Tea Partiers are people who know that:

• Once President Barack Obama finishes forcing “the rich” to pay their “fair share” of taxes, the truly rich will still have all their toys — big houses, vacation homes, boats and such;

The poor aren’t going anywhere. Tea Partiers know this is a group that has become larger, not smaller, since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, and;

• Once again it will be the middle class that gets sacked.

It’s as wrong to write off this group as a bunch of ignorant, greedy, gunslinging, right-wingers as it would be to characterize all those who believe governments have a duty to act broadly and aggressively as eggheads, communists and socialists. It’s also wrong to make them a suspect class because most are white, given that the U.S. House is 91 percent white and the Senate is 99 percent white.

The Tea Partiers recognize that America is teetering on the edge of an economic collapse. Most of them have balanced checkbooks all their lives. Having been let down by the fantasy math that infects Washington, they’ve got nowhere to turn. There’s anger and disappointment, but the overriding emotion is frustration that common sense, always rare in government circles, has, like Elvis, left the building.