In a vivid example of how out-of-touch the Democrats are in Sacramento, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass recently said that talk radio is inciting terrorism in California. When asked about talk radio's role in legislation, she told the Los Angeles Times:

The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: "You vote for revenue and your career is over." I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it's about free speech, but it's extremely unfair.

Speaker Bass and other tax raisers wouldn't feel “terrorized” by talk radio hosts like John and Ken, if they didn't have hundreds of thousands of listeners that agreed with them. Their first tax rally was attended by as many as 15,000 protestors. Bass isn't worried about John and Ken; after all, they only have two votes. But their listeners, who will be out in large numbers this Independence Day, pose the real threat to her. It's those people that she thinks are the real “terrorists”.

She may not like it, but that’s how a representative democracy works. Citizens have the right to vote legislators out of office when they stop serving their needs, let alone when they start suffocating them with taxes. For example, they don't like it when politicians disingenuously refer to taxes as “revenue”, like Bass does. And they really don't like it when they are likened to terrorists.

I know I'm just aiding and abetting terrorists now, but here's some information on some Fourth of July tea parties in Ventura County.

The Ventura County Tea Party Patriots will be rallying at the Ventura County Government Center at the corner of Victoria and Telephone Road in the city of Ventura, from 11am to 2pm.

In Thousand Oaks, there will be a rally at the Conejo Community Park on 1175 Hendrix Drive, from 1pm to 3pm. G. Edward Griffin, author and filmmaker, will discuss the federal reserve, the subject of his 1994 book The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, which is enjoying a resurgence.

Let's get it straight, Speaker Bass. Terrorists are murderers who blow up women and children. People who organize protests to wave signs and flags are called concerned citizens. If you had any respect for the citizens of California, for your office or for the First Amendment, you would issue an apology right now.

Until then, the fact that you have so munch animosity toward Californians is exactly why they are taking to the streets in the first place.