“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” – Thomas Jefferson

I haven’t devoted too much attention to the whole “tea party” movement going on right now in America. It always seemed cheesy and contrived, like too many of the gimmicks employed by the Right in recent years  (“Joe the Plumber”, Freedom Fries, etc.). I’ve always been of a mind that you beat the other guy with ideas, not fads and forced pop-cultural memes.

But what do I know? Turns out they had an inspired event recently – the Alabama Tea Party at Veterans Park in Hoover, Ala. Stephen Gordon has a good article on the whole shebang. But what seems to be getting everyone’s attention is the following speech by Stacy McCain: