If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a sense that Washington is in need of dire fiscal reform.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.