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A local "Tea Party" is scheduled for April 15th in Sugar Land, organized by a Republican Party Precinct Chair in Sugar Land. In a newspaper ad last week, the organizers urged people to bring tea bags to the Sugar Land Town Square if they have "had enough of entitlement programs, political correctness, taxation, regulations, bailouts, and handouts?"

Political correctness? Regulations? Republicans must like toxins in milk, pesticides in Chinese leather couches, tainted drywall, and salmonella in peanut and pistachio products. This MSNBC excerpt nicely sums up how the Tea Party movement seems to be against everything and for nothing.

Republicans may have forgotten that their formula of "taxcut, borrow and spend" government got us into this mess, but we haven't. Republicans may have forgotten that the bailouts of AIG and the banking industry were Bush administration actions, but we haven't.

There is a delicious irony in seeing Republicans protesting against themselves.

Canton Memorial Civic Center, Canton, Ohio
1:17 P.M. EDT, Monday, OCTOBER 27, 2008

One week. One week.

After decades of broken politics in Washington, eight years of failed policies from George Bush and twenty-one months of a campaign that has taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California and everywhere in between, we are one week away from changing America.

In one week, you can turn the page on policies that have put greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks right here in Canton, folks right on Main Street.

In one week, you can choose. You can choose policies that invest in our middle-class and create new jobs and grow this economy from the bottom-up, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, from the CEO to the secretary and the janitor, from the factory owner to the men and women on the factory floor. In one week.

In one week, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation, just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region and city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need hope. In one week, at this defining moment in history, you can give this country the change we need. You can do that.

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The Republicans are trying to scare America, again. This time, they warn that a President Obama and a Democratic Congress will increase taxes and send the economy into a tailspin. Here's the truth so you can explain it to a child, or to your Republican brother-in-law:

"If we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth." -- Barack Obama For a video of Barack Obama's speech: http://movies.crooksandliars.com/msnbc_obama_speech_060308.mov