The Tea Party (no tea involved)

I was just thinking...

Everyone knows about the "Tea Party" by now. A group of conservative protesters who tour the nation putting on rallies in protest of anything and everything that Socialist/Nazi/Communist/Hippie president Barack Obama does. While I do not support their message, I do support their freedom of speech and freedom of opinion, regardless of how incredibly wrong it is ;)

Most notably, the Tea Party has spoken out against the notion of Health Care Reform. Yea, yea, I know. This passed months ago. That's beside the point. The point is that these people, who are the same people who supported George W. Bush through blunder after blunder for 8 long, terrible years, are AGAINST the government helping its own people! I can't seem the wrap my head around this aspect. Why WOULDN'T you want your government to help you? I understand the Republican philosophy is for as little federal government power as possible, but seriously? You don't want help, if it's offered?
One of the Tea Party's main points against Health Care Reform was the cost. A valid point, yes, but hypocritical, DEFINITELY. For 8 years, the Tea Partiers had no issue with all the government money used to fund an unjust, illegal war, which was started on information that turned out to be completely false. They were okay with the government using their tax money for killing people from other countries, but if that money were to be used to HELP people WITHIN the country, THEN it is a catastrophe! THEY MAKE NO SENSE!
The people who seem to be leading, or at least fueling the wrongness of this "Tea Party", are none other than Nazi-Whistle-blower Glenn Beck, and I-can-see-Russia-from-my-house crazy Sarah Palin. While I have an immense hatred, and could rant about those two for hours, I will save that rant for the next time they do something ridiculous (don't worry, that won't take longer than a month!). I bring them up now not because what they say is so obviously wrong, but because it is BELIEVED! The "Tea Party" was supposedly formed to, like the original tea party, dissent against the government. While I fully support dissent (I have a pin that reads: Dissent Protects Democracy, which I fully believe) what they are engaging in is not dissent. They are lemmings! Just because Sarah Palin says and Glenn Beck writes it on his blackboard does in no way make a fact! The "Tea Party" movement is founded on lies accepted as truth!
In the end, protesting for an honorable cause is a good thing, a great thing, even, but what the "Tea Party" is doing is not for an honorable cause.