It always bemuses me when liberals get all upset and bothered when someone else exercises their freedom of speech and right of public assembly.

I forgot that it's only okay for liberals to do that- - you know, the Million Man marches, anti-war protests, campus protests, calling candidates and politicians and anyone else they don't like names, ad nauseam—but not for anyone else, particularly when they don't agree with them.

I attended the local Thousand Oaks TEA party at the post office on April 15 and found the participants to be vocal and enthusiastic but orderly, well-behaved and not "hurting the environment." The people attending were "getting out there" and doing something by publicly protesting against too much government spending and high taxes.

And the reason people didn't hold TEA parties during the Bush years was because his tax cuts were for everyone, including the top 25 percent of wage earners who pay 86 percent of all federal income taxes. And they worked.

Funny how in 2006 we had $2.16 a gallon gas prices, an unemployment rate of 4.5 percent, a booming stock market with consumer confidence at a 2½year high. And then look what happened when the Democrats took control of both houses of Congress!

Wanna bet these tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire at the end of this year, won't be renewed? Maybe the reader who complained about the "lemmings" who watch Fox News and attended the TEA parties should stop watching CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, the Public Broadcasting System and reading the Liberal Always Times, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, etc., and "get out there and do something" rather than whine and complain about people who are exercising their constitutional rights. Bob Meisterling Thousand Oaks