Its making me crazy!!

Is there anything that happens in this country that can escape being labeled or put in some known box so people can be comfortable??

I cannot believe that pundits (some of whom I like) have such a difficulty understanding that the TEA PARTY is a great MOVEMENT of extremely disillusioned CITIZENS of this country who feel their elected government has failed them. They feel that the vast majority of politicians in DC (and also at state and local levels) have completely lost contact with who they serve and the identity and foundations of this country.

The TEA PARTY is not a political party and has no desire to be. It is a growing army of discontent formed of people from every political persuasion, skin color, ethnicity, faith,socio-economic level and educational background.

The ship of state has run aground and we seek to set her sailing smoothly toward a brighter tomorrow.

O Ship of State

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

First published in The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!

Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

Humanity with all its fears,

Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

We know what Master laid thy keel,

What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,

Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,

What anvils rang, what hammers beat,

In what a forge and what a heat

Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!

Fear not each sudden sound and shock,

‘Tis of the wave and not the rock;

‘Tis but the flapping of the sail,

And not a rent made by the gale!

In spite of rock and tempest’s roar,

In spite of false lights on the shore,

Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.

Our hears, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,

Our faith triumphant o’er our fears,

Are all with thee – are all with thee.