Where were they for the last 10 years?

In regards to the Tea Party, Palin wrote in an opinion published on Wednesday in USA Today: "Some have tried to portray this movement as a commercial endeavor rather than the grassroots uprising that it is. Those who do so don't understand the frustration everyday Americans feel when they see their government mortgaging their children's future with reckless spending."

Where were they during the last decade? Clinton ended the 90s with a budget surplus that lasted for a couple years. Bush saw this as an opportunity to cut taxes on the rich and wage a non-essential war that The Project for the New American Century had been lobbying for since 1996. And let’s not forget totally taking the teeth out of the S.E.C. and deregulating Wall Street. Those three “reckless spending” actions – massive tax cut, Iraq war, Wall Street deregulations – are the reasons for America’s decline and why our children’s future have been mortgaged.

Why did they sleep for the last 10 years and suddenly wake up now?

How many are the same militia types who hated Clinton?