Irony and the Tea Party

A recent article in the Washington Post reports on the activities of the Franklin County Patriots - a so-called Tea Party Group that holds its monthly meeting in Rocky Mount Virginia.

That Tea Party groups adamantly oppose government spending, even on what many would regard as necessary and desirable services, is axiomatic. That the Franklin County Patriots would have welcomed a federal government shut down is a given. That they hold their monthly meeting in the Rocky Mount Public Library - a taxpayer operated facility - at no cost to the group, would be deliciously ironic except for the fact that this is one of the groups driving an ill tempered political debate in which any compromise as regarded as equivalent to treason.

Their hero, former President Ronald Reagan, must be spinning in his grave!

Mark Twain may have described the Franklin County Patriots (and members of the United States Congress) perfectly with these words:

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."

Enough said!