NYTimes.com: Tea Baggers are hard right ideologues

While most Americans blame the Bush administration or Wall Street for the current state of the American economy, the greatest number of Tea Party supporters blame Congress.

They do not want a third party and say they usually or almost always vote Republican. The percentage holding a favorable opinion of former President George W. Bush, at 57 percent, almost exactly matches the percentage in the general public that holds an unfavorable view of him. According to CBS news, Bush left office with a 22 per cent approval rating.

It is clear these people represent the losers in the 2008 elections. The Tea baggers are made up of ditto heads and other far right extremists.

Oddly, the Tea Party supporters said they did not want cuts to Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs. This is probably because most of the Tea Baggers represent the Baby Boomer generation who are receiving the benefits of these two federal programs.

The want the government to focus on “waste.” Certainly fraud is a big issue in Medicare which represents a $60 BILLION THEFT FROM TAXPAYERS. Health and Human Services and the Justice Department now have seven Medicare fraud prosecution strike forces in place — in Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, Detroit, Brooklyn, Tampa and Baton Rouge. Medicare fraud is a big problem in Florida. 

Since the first strike force office opened in Miami in March, 2007, the strike forces have indicted more than 460 individuals and organizations for allegedly billing the Medicare program falsely for more than $1 billion. Fifty nine billion to go!

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html?hp

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/terry-lakin-birther-to-be_n_537310.html

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