Response to Mackinac Center’s Jack McHugh in “A Tea Party Manifesto” Michigan View on Dec 16, 2010
To do what these new Teapartisans are going to foolishly and ill-advisedly do, attempt to steer wrestle the entire federal legislative process to the dirt, is a stupendous mistake. You take joy that Teapublicans will "scare the living daylights out of their own lawmakers" puts you in the four poster with Ebeneezer Scrooge.
You should be taking note that the public now has its lowest rating for Congress in history. The stoneheaded behavior indicated by the inciters (and mega-bucks backers) of teapartisnaship is civically evil and economically suicidal.
If you think their peacock brand of libertarianism (ala Ayn Rand, or Ron Paul) is what the Founders envisioned for America, then perhaps a return to American History 101 is in order! They are so far right they are meeting up with anarchists on the dark side of the moon!
These "movement" types-spurred on by a rising angst and concern in the country coming from the civically illiterate and more often the desperate families "underwater financially" will contort the next 2 years and cripple our national recovery via bitter vituperative partisanship and legislative games.
Fear, as used to provoke some to take form of "direct action," is not an idle danger.
Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul's rantings about a Marxist Culture having captured the nation is inflammatory and delusional. These ideologues glory in the distress of Americans and take rank political advantage, much as Mitch McConnell has set out to end the effectiveness of, and block the re-election of America's first black president by an uncompromising rebellion based on GOP SUPER "NO"ism.
The entire world is watching and what they are seeing is ugly!
Our President Barack Obama is charged overseeing the nation overloaded with 2 lengthy wars, and the Great G.W. Bush Recession/Depression.
If the teapartisans are to do everything they can to obstruct and undermine Obama's ability to bring the nation out, we are in deep trouble, bar none.
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