I was at a rally for the Tax-Day tea party or April 15th. It was my last. I was prepared to meet other people that were for fiscal responsibility, ending our idiotic and impotent nation-building, and returning civil liberties that the Bush administration had stripped, and those the Obama administration was prepared to strip.

How very wrong I was. Other libertarian-minded people were in attendance, but these were extremely rare. Many didn’t know why they were there. Most were religious fanatics and blind Bush supporters who clearly didn’t read the memo. Most were convinced that the rally was a pro-Jesus, anti-Obama rally. Most had forgotten that it was Bush who dove into the socialist agenda of giving public money to private companies, an act that they were oh-so-happy to peg squarely on Obama.

The saddest part about all this: even half of the Ron Paul supporters out there are convinced that 9/11 was an inside job. *facepalm* I guess this proves that even when there is a negligibly-sized third option, the nutcases that aren’t already lemmings to a major party clamor to jump on the bandwagon, bringing with them the destruction of any credibility and logic that the emerging libertarian voice might have had.

So I guess my next question is…are there any cheap islands for sale?

Lot of money here — I think it merits an investigation. The Tea Party bunch makes ACORN look angelic.

Get out your clown car, Ianquihue, and bring your long suspenders and floppy shoes, too. Did you only read the blurb? Did you not go to the various links offered? Your perception is not very wide and has no depth at all – typical teabagger you.

“In Wednesday’s email exchange, several other TPPers sided with Merits in raising concerns about the lawsuit. And one, Jack Staver, raised a separate charge against the board, suggesting that board members were being insufficiently transparent about the organization’s finances.

Wrote Staver:

How much money does TPP have? How much did we make in DC? Where are the financial statements? Do board members get paid and if so who? Who signs the checks? Where does our money go?
Merits echoed that theme. “Why are the financial records not public knowledge?” he asked. “Show me the money!”

Eventually a Tea Party Patriots loyalist couldn’t take it anymore. “Why are you intentionally trying to destroy this movement??” he demanded.

Charges of lax book-keeping — and worse — appear to be breaking out across the Tea Party movement. In a separate email written Wednesday and obtained by TPMmuckraker, Matt Perdue, the president of a San Antonio Tea Party group, ripped into the group’s treasurer, her husband, and their supporters for conducting a “mass redirection campaign,” apparently to line their own pockets using Tea Party donations.

“Where has all this money gone?” asks Perdue. “If there is nothing wrong going on, why has there not been one single piece of paper produced to back up why people got checks, some for $3,000, $7,400+, $4,000, $10,400+??? Where is the documentation? Why isn’t the cash deposited like it should be? Why did it take more than two weeks to deposit cash from the meetings?”"

Oh – so in your world it’s ok that the Tea Party not account for its funding. No need for an investigation, move along, there’s nothing to see here. If you’re a Tea Partier, don’t bother asking —

Yes, I’m being facetious. See that last line in your post? “A little thought goes a long way you know…” How far has that little thought gotten you?

“Fidoohki says:
November 15, 2009 at 6:31 am
More than you apparently. Acorn is being investigated because of the federal money it recieves. Since Holder has refused to investigate them for this why should the tea parties be investigated?”

Wait – “ACORN is being investigated because of the federal money it receives” – but “Holder has refused to investigate them for this..” Illogical at best, incorrect at worst. ACORN is the subject of investigation as to funds in Louisiana because of embezzlement in which ACORN is the victim. And the reason the Teabaggers should be investigated is for the same reason — show me the money, all those checks written, allegations of personal enrichment of teabagger officers, “Charges of lax book-keeping — and worse — appear to be breaking out across the Tea Party movement. In a separate email written Wednesday and obtained by TPMmuckraker, Matt Perdue, the president of a San Antonio Tea Party group, ripped into the group’s treasurer, her husband, and their supporters for conducting a “mass redirection campaign,” apparently to line their own pockets using Tea Party donations.

“Where has all this money gone?” asks Perdue. “If there is nothing wrong going on, why has there not been one single piece of paper produced to back up why people got checks, some for $3,000, $7,400+, $4,000, $10,400+??? Where is the documentation? Why isn’t the cash deposited like it should be? Why did it take more than two weeks to deposit cash from the meetings?””