Maybe the earth did not move all that much, but the stars aligned. And in reading the stars rightly, individuals have been given a rare opportunity.
And a fortuitous opportunity should not be allowed to go to waste. Really much better and cleaner than depending on continued and repeated crises.
Well since the Republicans seem to have crawled under a rock somewhere...seems it is just a matter of time until the TeaParty assumes command. Could not be soon enough for me
Tea Party should stick to what the original Tea Party was all about - low taxes.
By necessity, that means smaller government and fewer services, which pushes back on the individual both the personal freedom to make good life choices and the personal responsibility to accept the consequences of poor life choices. All of this good, and what America is all about.
Part of the problem is that voters vote for the pols who bring home the bacon, which is of course “pork”. In DC, it’s “I’ll vote for your pork if you vote for mine” and this is problematic for taxpayers, since every dollar going to one’s own district means $434 going to others’ districts. This inherently is a recipe for waste.
The Tea Party needs to focus on exposing and demolishing “pork for pork” politics, or situations like Jeff Sessions holding up administrative appointments until he gets an (unnecessary) FBI explosives lab, and a military project, for Alabama. This is the kind of Republican Tea Partiers need to go after.
The author seems to imply that the Tea Party is the domain of social liberals, however I suspect that many Tea Partiers are social conservatives. If the libertarians want to pick a fight with the social conservatives, then the party’s over.
Tea Party should be about low taxes, which by definition must mean constrained government spending. Any attempt to directly add social issues to the agenda will turn it into a mess of internicene squabbling.
USGS is reporting activity along the recently discovered geological formation named "Bush's Fault".