Or could it be possible that John McCain is the source Reid won’t disclose? Think about it, he is probably one of just a handful of people that have seen Romney’s tax returns and also has easy access to Harry Reid. Maybe it wasn’t a phone call at all… maybe it was a private conversation in the cloak room of the Senate.

Congress is an absolute mess with the lowest approval ratings of all time, and you can lay that directly in the collective lap of the Tea Party Caucus. 90% of the intolerant and nutty speech emanates directly from Tea Party members or those attempting to curry favor with the Tea Party. What’s more, polls have repeatedly shown that the general American public very much dislikes the Tea Party — I don’t think it’s because of the funny hats, do you?

I have had many debates with Tea Party members over the last few years, and I can tell you from personal experience that there are very few that I respect — much less agree with them on anything. I personally know some Tea Party members, and I can tell you that most of them squeal about paying their share of taxes when I know full well that they are either receiving public benefits like Medicare and Social Security or have received benefits sometime during their lives but now eschew anyone else doing so.

It is no longer any secret that the Koch Brothers provide heavy financial support for the Tea Party and Tea Party candidates. It’s clear that the Koch Brothers and others like them clearly want to push the US into a political state that is as close to a plutocracy as they can get — and the Tea Party is their favorite tool. This is the complete opposite of the reason that America was founded in the first place.

If you think that by watching FOX News that you have the lowdown on world events, you’d better wake up out of your stupor. FOX is known to have the most biased and inaccurate news organization in the country, and amounts to little more than a right wing political action committee. Research has shown that FOX viewers are less informed about world events than people who don’t watch news at all.

Finally, if you yourself aren’t a bigot, deadbeat or nut case, then your choice to associate with a party that is chock full of them only brings into question your own personal judgement. I know that there are people who get caught up in movements that have unsavory characters when they themselves are decent people. I’m sure this is true with people who identify with the Tea Party as well, and perhaps you’re one of those. But let me tell you something ‘dude’: For as long as I’ve been alive on this planet I have never had cause to disrespect an American political movement the way I do this one, and fear the tragic consequences that could result if one of these nut-bags ever makes it into the Oval Office.

I don’t have a lot of respect for the GOP in recent years, but it’s still 1,000% more than I have for the Tea Party. My advice to you is if you don’t want to carry the stigma that the Tea Party is earning with their intolerant, ignorant and downright bizarre antics, then you should disassociate yourself with the label and help make the GOP as respectable as it has been in years past. It’s your choice, not mine.