Meet Mr. And Mrs Tea Party

As the Tea Party Express makes its way to Washington DC in time for Tax Day, maybe it's time you meet Mr. and Mrs. Tea Party.

Doonesbury and liberal pundits aside, we're not a bunch of clown-like, foul-mouthed members of the "fringe" of society. We're the fabric of society.

We're executives, professionals, blue collar workers, college students, those unemployed or furloughed, you know, your next door neighbors.

We wear regular clothes, pay our taxes, our kids go to the same schools your kids go to. We obey the rules and try to make it through life under a growing crush of government rules and regulations.

We're not anti-government because we are the government. We just want those we thought we sent to Washington to represent our interests would actually do so.

We've been accused of racial slurs yet no actual tape or documentation exists of anyone saying that, although we do have tape of the Vice-President dropping the F-Bomb.

We don't promise what we can't deliver, unlike President Obama's promise to show all the Health Care Reform hearings, meetings and the like live on C-Span.

We don't conduct the people's business behind closed and locked doors. We go outside, yell and carry signs and simply ask that we want our government back.

What both the Democrats AND Republicans are about to find out this fall is that we represent Main Street USA.

They should come visit us sometime. We'll even serve tea!