Tea Partiers:
Hypocrites:
Where were they during the Bush and Reagan years?
During the Reagan years, rejoicing over lower tax rates and the economic boom they caused, frustrated over congressional Democrats reneging on their deal to cut spending.
During the Bush years, happy over deep cuts in tax rates on economic rocket full, aka dividends and capital gains, frustrated over phony stimulus rebate checks, and furious over massive new entitlements and "compassionate conservative" spending.
During both eras, mindful that the Democrat alternatives would be far, far, worse for the economy.
Do they really want smaller government or smaller government for other people?
Smaller government. What makes you think they want it only for themselves?
Ignorant of macroeconomics: anyone who wants to reduce federal spending during an economic crisis really needs to read some books.
Anyone who thinks failed Keynesian stimulus models are the only way to deal with recessions needs to read some books outside of liberal econ 101 texts. Laffer, Freidman, Shumpeter, Hayek, Von Mises.
Ignorant in general: Yelling about their taxes when tax rates went down.
Not ignorant of the largest tax rate increases in American history that kick in January 1, 2011. Also not ignorant of the massive value added tax Obama will introduce after he is re-elected.