THE BAGGERS ARE IN AN ALTERNATE REALITY

'TEA" in Tea Parties is supposed to stand for "Taxed Enough Already" and when the Baggers started, I didn't get it because most people had their taxes lowered (ignore the misleading title):

PROMISES, PROMISES: Many Obama pledges unkept
Jan 14 01:47 PM US/Eastern
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
Associated Press Writer
He campaigned on a pledge to provide a $1,000 tax credit to 95 percent of all working families, and almost delivered.

The $787 billion stimulus bill included an $800 tax credit for couples making up to $150,000, and a declining credit for those making up to $190,000. The Tax Policy Center estimates that 90 percent of taxpayers qualified for a tax cut under the stimulus package.

In case your mind is warped enough to think the AP is biased for Pres. Obama, Steve Benen found this from the conservative paper The Washington Times:

EXCLUSIVE: Obama wins more spending cuts than Bush
Thursday, January 14, 2010
By Stephen Dinan

President Obama notched substantial successes in spending cuts last year, winning 60 percent of his proposed cuts and managing to get Congress to ax several programs that had bedeviled President George W. Bush for years.

The administration says Congress accepted at least $6.9 billion of the $11.3 billion in discretionary spending cuts Mr. Obama proposed for the current fiscal year. An analysis by The Washington Times found that Mr. Obama was victorious in getting Congress to slash 24 programs and achieved some level of success in reducing nine other programs.