What is the Tea Party bus doing in San Francisco tonight?

So, I'm out walking the dogs and what did I just see parked at the corner of 20th and Wawona, right behind 19th Ave. in San Francisco, but a big Tea Party bus with smaller little Tea Party minivan? I tried to take a photo but it was too dark, but it looked essentially like the one here, only with a Tom Paine quote about patriots protecting the country from its government instead of the "Tea Party Express" sign.

What I'd really like is these losers out of my neighborhood and my city, but it being a free country and all, I'll settle for an answer to this question: Where the hell have you guys been for the last few years?

Why is it that all during the Bush years you were silent as they imposed the Patriot Act, with its draconian infringement of personal liberty and basic civil rights, as the  government wiretapped its own citizens and built up the biggest government spending program of all, the war in Iraq?

Why is it that until we had a Black man as president you couldn't be bothered to stop listening to Rush long enough to gas up the Tea Party bus and drive around shaking your tiny fists in the air?

Why is it that nothing the government did bothered you, no matter how it indebted our nation and its future generations and destroyed our image and prestige across the world, until you thought the government was giving people too much -- health care, extended unemployment benefits, public education?

I don't think there has ever been a more transparent bunch of hypocrites in the entire history of this country.

Comments

[KathyF]

When I worked on the Dean campaign we distributed brochures with Common Sense by Thomas Paine. I think that indicates the difference: We wanted people to read the whole treatise (few did, I'm sure) but the Tea Partiers are content with slogans. Wonder why that is?

[Red]

Hmmm...maybe they're in town for the Adam Lambert concert? After all, Fred Phelps showed up for the KCity show.

[Cheryl]

Hypocrites all. They talk a good one about wanting small government and government staying out of peoples private lives but that really means their lives not anyone else's. They have no problem telling the gay community what they can and can't do, equality and the Constitution be damned. They were all gung ho for the patriot act - I wonder if they get it - that they were included not excepted from it?

[Laura]

It's so sad to hear you think the tea party's opposition has anything to do with Obama being a black man. It seems YOU are the one who can't get past Obama's color. And yes, conservatives were DISGUSTED with Bush's spending during his term. just for the record, i am a registered democrat.

[Brahm (alfred lives here)]

Good post! I totally agree - nasty bigots, hypocrites, racists, homophobes.

For people who want LESS government, why do they care who I sleep with or marry?

They have a black President and hate that.

Bigots.

[Eric]

It amazing how many people accuse others of racism. I think that's what psychologists call "projection"; people project their own problem onto others. Or the other issue might be that people can't find a REAL problem with the Tea Partiers, so they play the race card.

I think this is what's really going on; as long as there was a chance to get a different party in power, there was Hope. Yes, Hope with a capital H. Hope for Change. Now people realize that the alternative was as bad if not worse than the original. The two parties are essentially the SAME. Now people realize that, and now the Tea Party arrives.

Frankly, the only real hope of change comes from the Libertarians, but there's very little hope they will win any elections. Alas...