Moderate and Uninformed: Tea Party Pontificators

I'm not in the Tea Party or Green Peace... What is the Tea Party anyway?

Most Americans are neither foaming at the mouth conservatives or hippy liberals. Most Americans have never read a bill passed by Congress or know the name of anyone who works in the West Wing. The vast majority of US citizens are politically moderate and modestly to completely uninformed. The average person, if he/she cares at all about politics, consumes news sound-bites; Yahoo articles, SNL skits and the occasional news broadcast. (This excludes those over 50. They watch a lot of news apparently.) We are a few of those average, moderate, uninformed Americans. We, as contributers to this blog, are completely confused by most of what goes on in Washington and we have a feeling we're not alone.

This blog will document our uniformed, self-proclaimed moderate (what is moderate anyway?) opinions toward the happenings in Washington and around the world. When addressing partisan issues, we will keep score between Dems and the GOP based on who we think makes the most sense. Being uninformed, however, our opinions should in no way sway anyone's opinion. We are not attempting to convince anyone of anything. We simply want our uninformed opinions to serve as a snapshot of the average American's sentiments toward world and national events. Hopefully we can relate to other moderate uninformed people out there and create some kind of normal discussion about what's going on in America.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Tea Party Pontificators

Erin Prince Anderson from Philadelphia sent me this gem. I was always suspicious of the tea party and now I know why. They're just like me, uninformed, except that instead of taking a moderate view toward things they don't know they go radical. I love the Disney themed, cyclopse clown suit at 1:11 (To get a full view of him double click on the video and watch it on youtube). If you take away the reference to the "funny stuff," he actually makes a pretty good point.

Enjoy!