We are REAL, just ask the New York Times!

I was all primed to write about the potential adoption of the Value Added Tax as a new, unmined souce of funds for our Congress and President but that's going to have to wait. Something much more important may be happening now that makes the Haiti and China earthquake and the SoCal earthquakes, the tragic deaths of the miners in West Virginia and all the rest pale in significance!

The New York Times, the standard by which all other papers are judged, has declared (drum roll, please!) that Tea Partiers are pretty much human and not the deviates first thought of by the folks in the Blue states.

The Times in cooperation with CBS News found that we Tea Party people are more conservative that most Republicans, that we are probably older than many in the Republican party and that we believe Obama to be very liberal (Ha!) However, instead of being dissatisfied as many Republicans describe themselves, the Tea Party members describes themselves as "angry". Angry with Big Government, angry about the direction of the Country and angry about being ignored by Washington and our representatives there.

This survey is a good thing. Being prepared by the New York Times and CBS News, there can be no higher validation (at least in the Liberals' minds) for our Tea Party phenomenon and the far reaching effect it can have in Washington and throughout the Nation.

As the political sophisticates of Collin County discovered in the recent Republican run-off election for state representative, pitting a well-connected RINO (Republican In Name Only) against a Tea-supported Conservative, party insider affiliation does not assure anything. The Tea Party mantra of True Representation at every political level, Fiscal Conservatism and Less Government Intrusion plays well to the music that "I'm mad and I'm not going to put up with it anymore." As I saw on a sign at a rally recently, "Congressman, you've been warned!"

It's going to be fun.