Some Get The Tea, Others Get The Bag
By Debra Saunders
April 14, 2009
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Tea Day organizers are telling supporters to send tea bags to Washington. You can sponsor a tea bag for $1. On the one hand, it's great that citizens want to participate and let their views be known -- as long as conservatives don't equate their protest with that of patriots who risked it all for their revolutionary beliefs in pursuit of democratic representation.
The Tea Day's list of woes includes the government wanting "to take your wealth and redistribute it." Good, I just wish the list included tenets that call for some sacrifice or responsibility on the right. But the list does not call, as former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer did in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, for Congress to reject Obama's pledge to decrease taxes for 95 percent of the country, out of the conviction that every American should pay income taxes.
I don't like the new Obama programs either, but political leaders must recognize that someone is going to have to pay for them, and patriots can't tout an agenda with no sacrifice.
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E-mail Debra J. Saunders at dsaunders@sfchronicle.com.
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