It's TARP-erific! And as Parker relates, this is what D.C. is lurching towards, even more so now than it has for the past couple of decades: "What non-ideologues may see as cooperation, however, is viewed by true believers as weakness. Any attempt at compromise is viewed as surrendering principle. Under the new order, a Good Conservative wouldn't cross the aisle to perform a Heimlich Maneuver.
The long-promised purge is on, in other words, and anyone fantasizing about bipartisanship can choke on that hope."
Click HERE for Parker's column.
The Tea Party folks are definitely and perhaps defiantly (which is how my students seem to enjoy spelling definitely these days) moving the GOP in a stronger rightward direction. I don't know if this is smart move for the GOP as a party, but it's interesting.
In a somewhat related article that tangentially connects to the Tea Party people and the proprietors and spin doctors of Fox News, you might want to check out this article in Mother Jones titled "Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason." Click HERE for that one.
2 comments:
The idea that conservatives are responsible for the end of bipartisanship is laughable, at best. As usual, there is plenty of blame for both parties.
As far as the Tea Party goes, it is more of a libertarian, small-government movement than a "Right" movement. At least as how American politics has traditionally labelled politics "Right".
I am fully in favor of a smaller government, but I'll settle for stopping the growth of the government and reforming entitlements so that we have a chance of not going through default, hyper-inflation, or both.
I found that bipartisanship idea a little sketchy too, but, hey, it's written by a conservative columnist.
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