"Tea-Party Downgrade???!"

There has been a whole lot of tea-party bashing and I'm sick of it.  I've been to a tea-party rally, tea-partiers are generally good, working-class people who want lower taxes and less government and more freedom!  So get ready for a rant.  Senator John Kerry called our nation's credit rating downgrade a "Tea-party downgrade" because they wouldn't compromise with the Democrats on what they wanted in the debt deal.  This is such a load of garbage.  The White House, Democrats, and news media defy logic and reason and flat out lie to people when they report this.  We got downgraded because we spend money that we don't have and don't seem to give a thought to how we're going to pay it back!  The CBO(congressional budget office) told the Obama administration that we needed to cut at least 4 trillion to not get downgraded--that advise was ignored.  As far as I've heard, Obama's only idea during the whole debt debate was to raise taxes on the rich because they don't pay their "fare share."  Another load of garbage.  The rich already pay a lot in taxes, plus they buy lots of stuff and employ people, so if you tax them more, then they won't buy things or hire people.  Duh.  Even lots of Americans are complaining that the rich didn't get taxed, but those are probably the almost 50% of Americans who don't pay taxes anyway(everyone pays taxes initially in their paycheck, but then they get it back for their tax return, for those of you how don't believe there are people who don't pay taxes).    Also, getting back to my point, the tea-party and republicans gave in and compromised plenty by letting Obama take the country even more into debt--if the Tea Party had it's way, it would have bee Cut, Cap, and Balance(look it up, maybe if we can get a good President next time around we can get it into place) which the Senate wouldn't even read and the president promised to veto.  The world is laughing at us and we have been humbled.  I personally think we deserve it because there are way too many pampered, spoiled, entitled brats in this country.  So don't believe the media's trashing of the Tea Party-they aren't the ones who got us into this mess, but hopefully they will be the ones to help lead us out!