Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Sean Luc Picard, Captain of the Starship Enterprise, sat in his ready-room preparing for his next major crisis when he ordered the computer's food synthesizer to produce his favorite beverage.

"Computer. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." he commanded. Magically, the computer produced a piping hot cup of tea.

Get ready for another "Tea Party." This one will be more like the famous one that took place in Boston Harbor over two centuries ago.

I told you in my last post this was coming.

I told you that people were getting fed up with the way this government has been behaving as of late. As a reminder, I'm talking about the behavior of BOTH Democrats and Republicans. I told you that a revolution was coming and that people were going to "Get up right now, go to their window, open it, and stick out their heads and yell, 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!'" just like they were instructed to do in the movie 'Network.'

Well, they're doing it.

Rick Santelli, longstanding reporter for CNBC performed what is now being crowned The Rant of The Year (and it's only February!). His impromptu performance, which received thunderous applause and approval by the professionals on the trading floor, has been viewed on YouTube over 700,000 times, and will probably surpass 1,000,000 in the next week or so. If you haven't seen it yet, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA . Democrats are learning that YouTube can work against you as well... As Rick Santelli said in his rant, "Are you listening President Obama???"

As I predicted, the grassroots movement has started. Recently announced, a new website has been put together to help concerned folks organize and put forth coherent, intelligent protests as to what's going on in this country. Go to http://www.newamericanteaparty.com/ to find out more. We're not talking about whacked out loony protestors that you sometimes see from the far left or the far right. The people are sensible folks from both sides of the aisle; concerned mothers, fathers, teachers and so on.

Folks, its a government of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, and for the PEOPLE. Sadly, in this country over the last few decades it has been the government of the few, by the elite, for themselves. We have to stop behaving like mesmorized lemmings as we watch these career politicians drive this country off the proverbial cliff.

WE elect these people. You cannot elect someone to act on YOUR BEHALF and then blame them if things go to hell in a handbasket. There is the comfort and convenience of being able to blame someone else because it means not taking personal responsibility -- which is something Americans are loathe to do. We have been taught by the media and other sources that things are always someone else's fault. This is why we see lawsuits over spilled hot coffee and the like. The key point however, is that it is suicide. Sitting comfortably in the back seat while you watch your designated driver (politician) drive your car off the cliff provides you with an alibi. You weren't driving, it was someone else's fault. And their could be debate over the fact that you elected the driver, but it's a moot debate: You're dead.

We the PEOPLE need to step back in and take control of this country and stop allowing the very small handfull of politicians to run this country into the ground. As the saying goes, "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

Stand up, take a stand, stand by it.