[Army Air Corps]

The Tea Party movement is successful because it taps into the deep American suspicion that all federal government apart from defence spending, is a kind of bureaucratic boondoggle, dreamed up by larcenous conspiracists in Washington to allow them to line their pockets by picking ours.

Our elected officials do little to disabuse us of this notion.

[decimon]

Our elected officials do little to disabuse us of this notion.

They used to hide it but now rub our noses in it.