What Tea Parties are About-

But they all have two things in common: 

1. They all want smaller government, 

2. and oppose the trampling of the Constitution embodied in these efforts to radically expand the size and scope of government. 

And as part of that desire, they want this utterly-ludicrous spending binge to end before it bankrupts all of us

http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2010/03/28/demonizing_everyday_americans