Tea Party, Coffee Party—next up, The Wine Party

Commentary by Kay B. Day

The Coffee Party website features a video with a young female spokesperson explaining the Party's origins as snow falls all around.Having failed to derail the various Tea Party groups around the land, ‘progressives’ have come up with a new tactic—start a Coffee Party as a response to those “obstructionists.” In the video explaining the group’s origins, the narrator said Party members “believe we are in the majority.” As snow falls all around—I have to wonder why it seemed a good idea to film this in the snow because the kid must’ve been freezing—she talks about diversity and being “completely comfortable with the changing demographics of our country.”

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For Obama’s federal budget, we need a few ‘locofocos’

Pt. 1 in a series ‘Seeking Redress of Grievances’
Main Street USA

Can you think of anything crazier than proposing record levels of spending amid the hard economic times Main Street, USA faces right now? That’s exactly what President Barack Obama’s administration wants in the budget—an increase of 5.7 percent to $3.72 trillion. That increase, among other items,  will provide more money to the states for Medicaid, increase funds for welfare programs like food stamps and the homeless and pay lip service to so-called ‘middle class’ taxpayers by giving them a small break in the neighborhood of $400 per individual.

Lesson one in Reality Government: What the government spends, we must provide, every single one of us either through the front door or the back.

As we face a financial quagmire, the administration is also adding or has added more federal workers. The Washington Times said most of the increase will be in civilian workers—“153,000 workers, to 1.43 million people, in fiscal 2010.” Remember to add applicable taxes, retirement and insurance to those employees’ salaries.

[Image from NASA]That those claiming to lead the government would consider increasing a budget as well as the federal payroll tells me we need a few ‘locofocos.’

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