Kyle Michaelis, a blogger at the Democratic-leaning New Nebraska Network, is "teed off" at the "Tea Party" protesters.

"There is very real element of selective outrage in the tea parties, as well as manufactured outrage," Michaelis said.

Michaelis said while he understands the tax protesters' concerns over the recent rescue plans and rising deficit, he questions why the protesters decided now is the time to oppose growing government spending.

"The bailout of Wall St. was signed by President Bush correcting years of deregulation that were led by the Republican Congress," Michaelis said. "Now suddenly out of nowhere they've taken this huge concern, when for eight years under President Bush, six of those this a Republican Congress, that wasn't much of a concern at all."

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson shared a similar sentiment.

"I wonder if they're putting something in their tea other than sugar," Nelson said. "I wish they'd been there eight years ago when the last administration doubled the national debt and increased the deficit. Where were these people then? It would have been helpful if they would have been pounding on the door of the White House at that point in time."

Michaelis called the protesters nay-sayers who offer few alternatives to the bailouts.

"They don't offer any actual solutions to the problems they actually created," Michaelis said. "They just know that they don't like what they're seeing now."

In the end, Michaelis applauded the disagreements because he said it's all a part of a democratically elected government - something the original "Tea Party" protesters were fighting for all along.

Democrats, like Michaelis and Nelson, attacked the "Tea Parties" calling them "AstroTurf," or an imitation grass roots movement manufactured by conservatives. They also point out a difference between the 2009 "Tea Parties" and the Boston Tea Party saying the colonists of 1773 lacked the right to vote and protested in outrage, while this year's demonstrations are in response to the Republicans' disagreements with the democratically elected President Barack Obama.

Tea party opponents also say the irony of these protests is that federal revenues as a share of the Gross Domestic Product, will be lower this year than any year since 1950. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government will take only 15.5-percent of GDP in taxes this year, compared to 17.7-percent last year, 18.8-percent in 2007 and 20.9-percent in 2000.