It's the Spending, Stupid!

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips addresses the elephant in the living room. (h/t: Memeorandum)

I feel confident in saying that the Tea Party understands what so many in Washington seem to have forgotten: We do not have a debt crisis. We have a spending crisis. There is only one way you get to a debt crisis — you spend too much money.

There's a word for having to explain something brain-blitheringly obvious to those who refuse to see it: