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The Tea Party Jacobins — Mark Lilla, NY Times Book Review
This is a wonderful interview, and like most of the Washington Journal good stuff, it was buried in the early morning segment when only we hard core @cspanWJ watchers even saw it. You really need to spend some time with this segment. He covers a lot of ground, and he knows his subject(s) really well. He's Russell King has penned a brilliant rant, and it's perfectly timed. I was just about to embark on a treasure hunt to find the best examples of this insane journey these freaks have taken us on. As I've been tweeting lately, Batshit Crazy is The New Normal. I doubt my Rants and Primers Please do sign-up for this… So you get all the hilarity of their planning missives, as Michael P. Leahy lures all the suckers into one big marketing tent for his goofy Saul Alinsky books with their make-believe history. Oh, and it may also help screw up AFP/David Koch's bus-buying and booking plans for the big Introduction The entire Teaparty movement is based on ideas that have been continuously discredited for years. Yet the GOP, eager to leverage all the passion and zeal of these misguided populists, is promising policy based on still more of the fiscal absurdity that has already wreaked havoc on our cities. Over the next few weeks, I My Definitions These are definitions I have created at UrbanDictionary.com. If you visit them, please vote them "thumbs up?" Thanks! Note: All terms are to the best of my knowledge, my creations, except where indicated by "*", in which case, I was defining a term coined by others. Preface: I really prefer micro-blogging about short, concise, action-oriented bits of news and information. I am not a journalist, and have never considered myself much of a writer, so forgive me as I stumble through a screed that is far longer and more ambitious than what I first intended, or what I normally offer on I never get over the fun we have intervening in the monumentally stupid Teaparty movement. What isn't controlled by a top-down hegemonic effort like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, gets continuously gamed by an army of two-bit right wing entrepreneurs trying to make a buck off of this rabid right Hatriot movement. I'm going to keep Bruce Bartlet, while discussing why spending, and not tax cuts are still needed, has taken a bat to the whining deficit hawks on the real cause of the Federal shortfall.
One of my very first posts to this blog (still not quite ready for prime time), and it's a gem, to my limited mind. In response to the stealthy and disingenuous screed by Stephen Hayward (AEI) on Sunday, this letter was sent to the Washington Post. Short and sweet, it takes just 100 words to |
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