Color me highly skeptical about the Tea Party. For one thing, just from the interviews I've seen, none of the candidates (even though that got elected) know much about how the world works. I mean, it's OK to be anti-intellectual, but that doesn't excuse ignorance or stupidity.
Case in point: Tea-Partiers seem to think that we can cut our way to prosperity; if government would just get out of the way, we'd all be better off.
On the face of it, that's not a bad sentiment. But, what do you cut?
To make any real dent in the federal deficit, you have to cut entitlements and defense. The TPs don't seem to want to cut defense because, well...I don't know really. There's about 400 billion to be had if we'd just scale back military spending. It is a new world, after all; I'm not sure who we are afraid of in Europe. China's not interested too much in military domination; they want to own the world, not rule it.
We could empty out a Wal-Mart and take on North Korea, so anything we do militarily there will be overkill (sorry).
That leaves Iraq and Afghanistan. Why are we there again?
Anyway, the GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER of healthcare didn't happen in Obamacare and won't happen with the nitwits that just got elected. So, we'll have more conversations about runaway health care costs, see more pictures of pitiful looking seniors in campaign ads...and nothing much will get done. Why we think doing nothing solves problems is beyond me; but hey, I didn't vote Tea Party.
Tea Partiers are good talk show hosts, ghostwrite darn fine books, and rabble-rouse with the best of them. I think they'll be crappy legislators, but then again...you get what you pay for.
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