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Never assume logic when it comes to teabaggers
Andrew Leonard has a piece up at Salon about the gold standard and the people who obsess over it. It’s amusing, but his read on why people obsess over the gold standard is, I believe, somewhat off. Of course, to many advocates of the gold standard, restricting government freedom is…
Nothing new about tea partiers
One of the most evocative examples of how media bias towards novelty works in politics has to be the way that mainstream media is covering the teabagger movement. Any fool could see from the outset that the teabaggers are a bunch of Fox News-addled right wing nuts that are sore…
Peter out or get crazier?
It’s the question on the minds of those of us who’ve been alarmed watching the teabaggers give up all pretense of civility (not that they had much) in the run-up to the health care reform vote in the House. Now that it looks likely that we’ll actually get health care…
Only thing new about the teabaggers is their name
J. Patrick Coolican, writing for the Las Vegas Sun, a fairly good overview of how the current teabaggers fit into a long tradition of ignorant, paranoid right wing nuttery. The John Birch Society never went away in American politics. It just morphs with the times and ascends whenever the hated…
So much becomes clear
There was a lot of discussion and debate on the blogs about what exactly the teabaggers were hoping to accomplish with their protests. Then I discover this wingnut blogger linking back to us and he wrote: My only comment is that the tea parties made a huge impact, not just…
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