Tea Bagging

Chicago was among the cities staging anti-taxation "Tea Parties" yesterday to demonstrate displeasure with the Obama administration thus far. It's strange how some citizens become so concerned with fiscal policy, once the guy they didn't vote for is running the country. NOW you're taking to the streets? Fiscal responsibility is a core tenet of Conservative beliefs. Where were all these protests when the former POTUS was expanding tax cuts during wartime? Where was the public outrage over using tax dollars to approve warrantless wiretapping operations? As with so many other issues, these kinds of demonstrations aren't really about promoting responsibility in the abstract sense, they're about self-interest. No one can be sufficiently moved to action until it personally affects them. Which is precisely why there were very few Republican representatives at these shindigs: they don't want any more egg on their faces.