Tea Party Express is Way Off Track

I understand the frustration of U.S. citizens with the state of our economy, unemployment, failing infrastructure, and Congress. I do not understand how many think it can all be fixed yesterday by keeping tax cuts for the rich, throwing out Hispanic immigrants, and most of all, by the Tea Party. The Tea Party is an all too predictable non-solution to a plethora of problems that have manifested themselves over several years, and are due to neglect and criminal behavior by our "leaders" and big corporations. So should we just replace the perpetrators of this malice with a bunch of misinformed, misled, impulsive altruists, who will be re-inventing the wheel with a bad plan?!
All you have to do is look at the ranting of Christine O'Donnell, or Sarah Palin's past half-baked comments to get a taste of the chaos that would ensue if they were to take power. A more recent example was last Friday night on the Bill Maher show when he paneled the editor of bigjournalism.com and co-founder of the St. Louis Tea Party, Dana Loesch. Her statements of the "facts" that the Democratic Party was the ruling majority for the last 4 years of the Bush administration (it was the last two), the corporate bailout cost more than the War in Iraq (the bailout, which has all but been paid back, totaled far less than the costly, ill-advised war), and that the new health-care plan will cost us 1 trillion dollars (a plan that pays for itself)is proof that they are just reciting the claims of the right and really have no voice of their own. When she said a "huge" amount of black conservatives are now stepping forward, it almost made the rest of the panel fall out of their seats with laughter. When asked "where are they" by John Legend and Al Sharpton she named them all in about 15 seconds. I commend Ms. Loesch for going on this Democratic friendly talk forum, but she made it clear why many "Tea Partiers" before her have wisely declined rather than display their inept policies and poor grasp on the issues and history.
I agree with their basic premise of cutting waste in government and ending cronyism, but the fact is they do not know what they are doing, saying, or how to get us where we want to be. They are just screaming for results without any answers. Please do not fall prey to this knee-jerk political power grab by a bunch of novice legislators. We voted for change and gave the Democrats the power to make it. Rome was not built in a day, and the catastrophic policies of the Bush Administration, and the Republican Congress that was in charge for 6 of those 8 years, will not be overcome in less than 2 years. Do not panic! Let them finish what they have started. We do not want to go back where we just were, or worse.