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Three Questions For the Tea Party

Bart100 Wrote: Aug 25, 2010 11:14 PM
Michael: I am a Tea Party member. What unites us is classical liberalism of "the government which governs least, governs best mold" - just like our Founders. We are not Burkean conservatives and are in full rebellion against GOP "big government conservatism" of the Bushes every bit as much as against the Obama socialism (yes, the S-word). Think libertarian conservative in the modern meaning of those words. We are not populists who are demanding government give us someone else's money. Have you seen the Revolutionary yellow "Don't Tread On Me" flags we fly with the coiled rattlesnake? We mean that sentiment most sincerely. Far from a departure from Reagan, we are the return of the Reagan (and Gingrich) revolutionaries - with a...

WASHINGTON -- So the "summer of recovery" swelters on, with Democrats sun-blistered, pestered by bottle flies, sand in their swimsuits, water in their ears. Jobless claims increase, Republicans lead the generic congressional ballot and George W. Bush is six points more popular than President Obama in "frontline" Democratic districts that are most vulnerable to a Republican takeover. Still, Democrats hug the hope that Obama is really the liberal Ronald Reagan -- but without wit, humor, an explainable ideology or an effective economic plan. Other than that, the resemblance is uncanny.

Yet the Republican Party suffers its own difficulty -- an untested...

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