All day my mind has been occupied by the thought that maybe we are
truly done. My walk along the Rockford Sinisissppi Bike path is often
a great time to reflect on the previous week which is usually filled
sick people, traumas and yes some people who have gone to meet their
maker.

This morning though I could not help but think about all the
excitement when Rick Santelli made his infamous rant and the
subsequnet Tea Parties that became a real firestorm across America.
With the Boston Tea Party deep in our history but also buried in our
5th grade memories, Santelli stoked a small fire that truly lived in
every one of us patriots. Many of us didn’t know the year it even
happened in, let alone the day and various events leading up to it.

Many of us just knew some fed up taxpayers from our national history
who eventually founded a nation threw some tea in a river that
ultimately ignited a revolution. Santelli merely stated what we all
wanted to hear.

It was about 21 days after the election of a man none of us knew but
who was making swift and sweeping changes, and it was like Hurricane
Obama had gone to Washington and was fulfilling all of our worst
fears. We were livid. We were united. We were stunned into action. The
hurricane has not stopped. We have just adapted to it. We are getting
used to the abuse. We are acclimating to slavery.

The day Santelli ranted at the Chicago Board of Trade we were ready.
The fire just grew and there was no containing it. Now after two
months the lights from that fire have softened and nothing but little
tea lights are spread out across the country barley flickering and are
extinguishing with a breeze. The voices that were loud and barely
containable have moved on.

There can be no doubt that the fire we had for the Tea Party movement
is barley burning now. With the 4th of July coming up fast, barely a
peep is being mentioned about the next Tea Party. We have barbecues to
attend to. We have fireworks to prepare. We have drinks to buy and
potato salad too. Its summertime and perhaps we are just not ready for
a fight.

I hope I am wrong. I hope that this is just the calm before the storm.
I hope that America will stay the course and fight for the ideals we
all really believe in. Obama is not going to go away. He is going to
maintain his course. His agenda will progress. Seeing is not believing
in this case. We have to be prepared for what is really coming. And I
believe. And I don’t need to see the end result to figure it out. And
it is on the way.

More radical changes that none of us signed up for. The kind of change
he didn’t promise. He promised change for the better, and the change
that is on the way is coming like a plague. It will knock America to
her knees. It will forever change this nation for the worse.

We are the last defense. Maybe not the Tea Party movement itself, but
the people who believe in this movement are the last defense, and
every minute we don’t spend opposing this man and this congress is a
moment of change for the worse.

To be honest all may just be lost. But I will go down with the ship.
Join me at the RockfordTeaParty on July 4th. It is our ship. The only
thing left is to drown.