My email to the Maine Tea Party. (Praying For A Reply - What Fun ! :-)

[RBInMaine]

(If you are interested in writing such an email to them, try [e-mail])

Dear Sir,

Thanks for taking a few minutes to answer the following questions.

1) Why was there no Tea Party during the Bush Administration which squandered a surplus and skyrocketed the deficit with programs and policies such as Medicare Part D (which still left a donut hole and prohibited negotiating for lower drug prices), tax cuts weighted heavily to the rich, and two wars thousands of miles from our shores? It seems interesting that the Tea Party was started only after an African American Democratic was elected President.

2) What percentage of Tea Partiers are registered Republicans and/or usually vote Republican?

3) I understand you are corporately supported? Is this true, and, if so, to what extent?

4) What percentage of your membership is caucasian? What percentage is minority?

5) You seem to consider yourselves a populist sort of movement. If so, why are you not protesting BP's actions and other corporate atrocities perpetrated against average Americans regardless of their political party?

6) How many of your members are on Social Security and Medicare, and how many are ready to give up those benefits?

7) How many of your members are for closing down or at least refusing to use or participate in the following government-run, or, as you might say, "socialist," programs and services?:

* The U.S. Military
* The V.A. and Its Entirely "Socialist" VA hospitals
* The Interstate Highway System
* The F.B.I.
* The U.S. Border Patrol
* The C.I.A.
* Unemployment Insurance
* The Environmental Protection Agency
* Programs Under The Americans With Disabilities Act and Related Laws
* Local Fire, Police, and Ambulance Services
* State Police Services
* State and Local Transportation Systems and Public Works Services
* National Parks and State and Local Parks and Recreation Services
* Local Schools and Their Many Sports Programs
* State Colleges and Universities and Their Many Sports Programs

8) Can you explain to me precisely why the Sons Of Liberty in Boston staged the Boston Tea Party? If so, please do.

As a "grassroots" organization, I am sure you will take the time to answer this email, and I look forward to your responses. Thank you very much.

[Old and In the Way]

1. I hope you get a reply to your questions.

I wouldn't hold out for an intelligent response, but I'd settle for honest answers written in 4th grade grammatical structure.

[Crystal Clarity]

2. Yeah, you probabaly won't get a reply; I agree...

but the idea that they might even be reading (and trying to comprehend) the OP's points crack me up. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that one moment. Ha! :spray: Great stuff BTW- I particularly like #'rs 6 and 8.