Congress and Tea Parties

I just read this, and was pretty surprised.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/09/tax-day-tea-party-protests-garner-support-repulican-lawmakers/

If members of Congress are planning to attend the Tax Day Tea Party protests on April 15, they're keeping awfully quiet about it.

The tea party movement has garnered nationwide attention since its launch on Feb. 27, and scores if not hundreds of tea parties are expected to be held across the country on Wednesday.
But so far, FOXNews.com has found only two members of Congress -- both Republicans -- who have committed to attending the demonstrations on the day income taxes are due.

Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Texas Rep. John Culberson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, say they will attend the protests to show their opposition to the government's massive spending bill. That leaves roughly 530 senators and congressmen who haven't been heard from.

I'm surprised and confused. I thought that the Republican Congressmen and Women that we elected stood for smaller government and less taxes? For standing up and doing what was right. So why is there only two attending Tea Party Protests?

The Tea Party was designed and started to stand for these very principles. Are they scared to publicly stand up to the President, Pelosi, and Reid? I sure hope not, because if this is a sign of things to come, I'll be finding someone else to vote for in a year and a half.

Thank You to Senator DeMint and Representative Culberson. You truly are in the right place representing all of us.

Betsy