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greasy backroom dirty dealing the Democrats did to cobble it together.
    We are mad as hell about the legislative tricks and straight party-line vote they used to pass it.
    We are mad as hell about multiple annual deficits over $1.3 trillion.
    We are mad as hell about a national debt speeding toward $17 trillion.
    We are mad as hell that this president’s wife goes on late-night burger runs while telling us to graze in her organic garden.
    We are mad as hell about the national humiliation of having our credit downgraded for the first time in U.S. history.
    We are mad as hell about the steadfast refusal by most Democrats—and some Republicans—to cut spending in real and deep ways.
    We are mad as hell about the Democrats’ equally steadfast obsession with raising our taxes.
    We are mad as hell about their weaselly cowardice in their refusal to take on the biggest sources of explosive spending: entitlement programs.
    We are mad as hell that illegal aliens are still streaming into the United States.
    We are mad as hell about a foreign policy that embraces our enemies and makes our friends walk the plank.
    We are mad as hell about the commander in chief apologizing for American power and action.
    We are mad as hell about an arrogant leadership that is bankrupting the nation while empowering itself.
    Above all, we are mad as hell that American exceptionalism is deliberately being turned into unexceptionalism.
    Americans will take a lot, but they will not tolerate the rape and pillage of their nation by the Orwellian forces of a sick and discredited redistributionist ideology. They will reject it even more when they believe their own leadership is hijacking American exceptionalism and deliberately diluting it in order to serve a global redistributionist scheme.
    It’s no coincidence that the movement that developed to push back found its inspiration in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The original tea party was a seminal pre-revolutionary event. It crystallized the colonists’ objections to being ruled and taxed from afar and their desire for the basic human dignity of having a voice in their own affairs. In a significant way, this was the beginning of American exceptionalism: What made these powerless subjects think they could confront the king of the most powerful empire on earth? The courage of those early Americans came when they realized they were not powerless at all. They discovered that their power came not from the barrel of a gun but from their unity around the idea that all men were created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    We were born in revolt: revolt against oppression, revolt against taxation without representation, revolt against those who ruled by royal decree, revolt against tyranny.
    The odds were stacked hugely against us. On one side there was the British army: well trained, well equipped, a professional fighting force in their crisp red coats. On the other side, a bunch of farmers with pitchforks, preachers with muskets, country lawyers with bayonets, rich and poor, fathers and sons, a ragtag bunch of men and boys. Their very unexceptional nature is what made their achievement so exceptional. In that motley collection of early patriots, we see the first American ingenuity, the first American feistiness, that uniquely American combativeness and competitive spirit.
    Most important, the early Americans knew that their demands were not radical. To King George, they constituted treason. But to the patriots, and later for the whole of humanity, they were basic rights that came not from government but from God. They believed, they felt , that they were on the right side of history. Even then, they knew they were part of a grand political and spiritual experiment. They didn’t know how it would end, but they also knew they didn’t have a choice but to fight.
    Several years after the Revolutionary War and the adoption