Where were the Tea Partiers in 2003?

July 22, 2009:

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated in 2008 that the Iraq war will cost the treasury at least three trillion dollars before it ends. Where were all the "tea partiers" in early 2003, when they had the opportunity to oppose this calamitous war? They weren't so concerned about balanced budgets then, were they? Well, I guess the Limbaugh-clones are unable to understand complex truths of any kind...