Now that the Supreme Court's ruling on ObamaCare is known, many, from Rush Limbaugh and Greta Van Susteren on the political right to Ed Schultz (MSNBC), Rhode Island's former Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy, and others
on the left, have either been making predictions or asking, "What is
the Tea Party going to do?" For those on the left, the question implies
that the Tea Party has been caught asleep at the wheel and must be in a
state of utter turmoil and disarray.
A perfectly good answer comes from the thirteenth century: one day, when St. Francis of Assisi was an old man, someone approached him as he worked in his garden. The man asked him: "Francis, if you knew that the end of the world were coming tomorrow, what would you do?" Without looking up, Francis answered, "I would continue hoeing my garden," meaning that he had been leading a good life all along and that there was no drastic measure he needed to take in order to prepare to meet his maker.
Here's a more recent example, drawn from the twenty-first century: imagine that someone says to Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Michael Phelps, "The 2012 Summer Olympics are approaching. What are you going to do?" Michael's answer would almost certainly be, "I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing for ten hours a day, 365 days a year for the last twenty years!"
The Tea Party's response to the SCOTUS decision is similar: "We're just going to keep on doing what we've been doing all along."
A perfectly good answer comes from the thirteenth century: one day, when St. Francis of Assisi was an old man, someone approached him as he worked in his garden. The man asked him: "Francis, if you knew that the end of the world were coming tomorrow, what would you do?" Without looking up, Francis answered, "I would continue hoeing my garden," meaning that he had been leading a good life all along and that there was no drastic measure he needed to take in order to prepare to meet his maker.
Here's a more recent example, drawn from the twenty-first century: imagine that someone says to Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Michael Phelps, "The 2012 Summer Olympics are approaching. What are you going to do?" Michael's answer would almost certainly be, "I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing for ten hours a day, 365 days a year for the last twenty years!"
The Tea Party's response to the SCOTUS decision is similar: "We're just going to keep on doing what we've been doing all along."
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