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.
