Sun, 14 Mar 2010

Coffee or Tea . . . one lump or two?

Naming political movements after refreshments is an interesting trend. Of course, the American's threw tea into the bay and then adopted coffee as the national drink, so I suppose there is some tie in. One of the more interesting quote from the CNN story about the Coffee Party meetings this Saturday was . . .

"I think the biggest thing to come out of it was people were tired of being labeled and divided," said Jernigan, who added that a Tea Party member was among the attendees. "They do agree on a lot."

[source]

I know that the most irritating statements by anyone, especially politicians are those starting with "the American people . . .". First, I defy any politician to define "the American People" and second what do these insolated, self-centered, greedy people know about what I think? Nothing, that's what!

The tea and coffee versions of things are much the same. The difference seems to be that the Coffee party is less partisan, while the Tea party is definitely fiscally conservative and full of anti-tax rhetoric. I'm thinking the thoughts of the Coffee Party better suit my temperament:

"Just like in the American Revolution, we are looking for real representation right now. We don't feel represented by our government right now, and we don't really feel represented well by the media either," [Coffee Party founder Annabel] Park said last week on CNN's "American Morning." "It's kind of a simple call to action for people to wake up and take control over their future and demand representation. And it requires people standing up and speaking up."

[same source]

I like the idea of the people telling the political leaders what they think rather than the political leaders telling the people what to think! The political system is definitely broken and working only for those who make money by buying politicians through their contributions. Let's hope that the Coffee Party movement an show the politicians that the people have the power to take away their positions if they don't get with the people's program.

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