TEA Partiers Pull A Rip Van Winkle

I applaud the TEA Party people for their civic engagement, but there’s a Rip Van Winkle quality to their sudden activism. If they’re so concerned about fiscal responsibility in government, then where were they during the golden fleece years from 2000 through 2006? That’s when Congress, ostensibly controlled by the party of fiscal restraint, kept handing blank checks to a president who ran up the tab like no one else in American history. Where were the TEA Party people when America’s foray into Iraq - originally billed as revenue-neutral thanks to oil sales - began incinerating hundreds of billions of our tax dollars? Where were the TEA Party people when lack of financial oversight finally caught up with, and hobbled, America’s once-robust economy? My retirement savings took a sickening dive when Wall Street tanked, and I’ll bet yours did too/ William Brock , Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here .

Question: Which major political party do you trust most when it comes to handling the nation’s checkbook?