How worrisome is the Tea Party's anger?

In "Yearning for an America that's Gone," Leonard Pitts looks at some polling data about the Tea Party's following.

Thanks to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, we now have a statistical picture of the tea party movement. There are few surprises. It turns out that not quite 20 percent of Americans are tea party supporters. They tend to be white, Republican, male, over 45 and wealthier than the rest of us. Fifty-seven percent hold a favorable opinion of George W. Bush. And where most Republicans describe themselves as "dissatisfied" with Washington, tea partiers are apt to use a different term. They say they're angry.

Click here to read the entire piece at the Miami Herald.

The way angry gun-rights advocates/anti-government zealots have taken to carrying weapons to political rallies can't continue without something bad happening. This situation makes me think that the so-called "responsible" conservative leaders who should be preaching restraint and moderation, instead of fanning the flames of hate, know that, too. It almost looks like some of them want a deadly government vs. armed citizens event to happen, so they can use it as a rallying point.

Waco was a long time ago, 1993, so maybe the festering THEY ARE COMING FOR OUR GUNS crowd needs new martyrs.