tea party

Danny Westneat, Seattle Times staff columnist
"Parsing the tea-party logic -
I went to one of those tea-party tax protests last week and found it didn't fit the crudest media stereotypes. They were friendly, not a bunch of whack jobs in training for the militia, as they are sometimes portrayed."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2011635002_danny18.html

Westneat ended his column today with the following words:

"The tea party's focus on deficits is right on. But it needs to get real. It needs a Ross Perot-like figure to spell out an honest plan — one that's probably going to have both tax increases and spending cuts (as Bill Clinton pushed through).
Also, drop the red-scare rhetoric. And run as fast as you can from bumper-sticker simpletons like Sarah Palin.
Otherwise, this tea party's stuck in Wonderland."

I think about the Bill Clinton - Rush Limbaugh exchange in recent days, and although I try to avoid "bumper-sticker simpletons like Sarah Palin", Limbaugh, et al...I still find myself bumping into them on the TV news, online and in the newspapers. Whew! This is America, this is freedom...and I still love it.