The question to be presented to the Tea Party is this: How much freedom do you really want? And what is the nature of that freedom?

Without government regulation of business (which it still does) and protection against health abuses by corporations, the lack of funds for building of roads and infrastructure (no Tea Party people are going to fund that), the chiseling of credit card companies, diminishing the role of bailout banks (robber banks instead of bank robbers), the curbing of the enormous profiteers from war, what kind of freedom are they talking about?

There is and has never been totally personal freedom and only would-be anarchists would advocate for that. The inherent logic of the Tea Party would lead to abolishing prison systems, an encroachment of personal "freedoms", resolving in no one paying taxes, which would excise revenue to do anything for the good of the country but leave only a token for the individual who would not be able to function without a government, and have to build his/her own roads, forget mailing letters through the post office, protect themselves by arming against everyone, eating unregulated food, constantly acquiring money for personal needs at the expense of the enjoyment of leisure, no five day work week, no vacation times, no protective unions, and a general sinking into a John Wayne Ayn Rand Distopia, and you call that "freedom"? I call it madness and selfishness.