Am I The Only One Who Sees The Irony Here?

The "tea party" is a movement ostensibly devoted to paring back the federal government, which has ballooned far beyond its legal dimensions. Yet now the tea partiers run to federal court seeking federal intervention against a local ordinance that displeases them. No doubt these plaintiffs will advert to decades of misbegotten jurisprudence under the Fourteenth Amendment, whereby federal courts have upended the constitutional order and appointed themselves "perpetual censor" over the States. (The phrase comes from the U.S. Supreme Court in one of its more lucid moments, unsurprisingly from more than 100 years ago.)

What will it take for people to learn that the more you allow the federal government to do FOR you, the more you allow it to do TO you? Some people are gluttons for punishment and will never learn this lesson, but it is rather disheartening to witness yet another freedom movement stumble into this morass. Forgive them, Founding Fathers, for they know not what they do.