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A liberal tells us that the TEA Party will fail because the people of the TEA Party don’t really want the TEA Party to succeed:

These inconsistencies will likely prove to be of no consequence in this year’s emotionally driven midterms. However, this does not change the fact that should the politicians sent to Washington by the angry masses actually make good on their promises to shrink government, they would only succeed in making the masses even angrier than they already are. This can’t be good for re-election prospects.

Promising small government is one thing – actually taking away or materially reducing Social Security benefits is quite a different matter. Preaching the repeal of health care reform works nicely with an emotional voter – substantially cutting their Medicare benefits would be a pretty cold slap in the face to that very same voter.

And yet, nobody can make a serious dent in the federal budget without taking a big whack out of both entitlement programs. It simply cannot be done…

First off, this totally ignores the fact that the people rising to the top of the TEA Party movement are not getting in to politics to have a decades-long political career. They won’t mind if they were turned out next time around because they actually did what they said they would. It is understand by all those in the movement that hard choices are going to have to be made, and that these choices might anger a great many people.

Secondly, we can massively cut the size of government without taking a penny off the end-use of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. A liberal thinks that if you want to deliver a check to a retiree, you must have the massive, bloated government bureaucracy to do it – we on the right know otherwise. Even in Social Security, believe it or not liberals, there is massive waste, fraud and abuse…plus just the plain, old inefficiency which goes with any organization with too many employees.

Additionally, we can cut a huge swath through non-entitlement spending, freeing up additional funds to ensure granny gets her check while still making the government smaller each year, and eventually a completely balanced budget where our national debt shrinks year by year. We can probably eliminate or consolidate all of the following without anyone really noticing they are gone:

Administration for Native Americans; Administration on Aging; Administrative Committee on the Federal Registrar; Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; African Development Foundation; Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; Agricultural Marketing Service; Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; AMTRAK; Appalachian Regional Commission; Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance; Bonneville Power Administration; Bureau of International Labor Affairs; Bureau of Transportation Statistics; Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion; Chief Acquisition Officers Council; Chief Human Capital Officers Council; Chief Information Officers Council; Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee; Commission of Fine Arts; Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; Committee for Purchase from People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled; Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements; Community Planning and Development; Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Corporation for National and Community Service; Council of Economic Advisers; Denali Commission; Disability Employment Policy Office; Domestic Policy Council; Economic Development Administration; Economic Research Service; Economics and Statistics Administration; Endangered Species Committee; Energy Information Administration; Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; Federal Communications Commission; Federal Consulting Group; Federal Executive Boards; Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight; Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds; Federal Interagency Committee on Education; Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy; Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; Federal Trade Commission; Federal Transit Administration; Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform; Foreign Agricultural Service; Global Affairs; House Leadership Offices; Innovation and Improvement Office; Institute of Education Sciences; Institute of Peace; Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group; Interagency Council on Homelessness; Japan-United States Friendship Commission; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries; Lead Hazard Control; Legal Services Corporation; Marine Mammal Commission; Migratory Bird Conservation Commission; Millennium Challenge Corporation; Morris K. Udall Foundation; Multifamily Housing Office; National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare; Open World Leadership Center; Office of Post Secondary Education; Railroad Retirement Board; Regulatory Information Service Center; Tennessee Valley Authority…and that doesn’t even get to the Departments of Education, Energy, Labor and Commerce, of which I defy anyone to think of anything off the top of their heads they actually do to benefit the people.

The fact of the matter is that we’re bankrupt – we simply can’t spend as much as we did, and so we must cut. Liberal dreams that we’ll all fall in line when it comes to actually cutting is a pipe dream…and it had better be, because if we on the right don’t show the courage to act, then our nation is doomed. And then where will our liberals look for massive government spending? China?

The left still does not understand how serious we are. They think this is just a phase and it will all quiet down and return them to power undisturbed. Well, sorry to break it to you, liberals, but this is a revolution…we will fix the mess you’ve made, whether you like it or not, and whether or not it temporarily costs us at the polls.