The Tea Partier's Cups Runneth Over
October 31, 2010
It would be folly to try to predict the impact of the Tea Party on Tuesday's vote.
But what is clear, is that anger at the Democrats is running high.
A poll late in the week showed that the party's traditional coalition has broken apart women, Roman Catholics, the less well off and independents are deserting the Democrats in favor of the Republicans.
What is startling is that the venom directed at President Obama pales beside any criticism of George W. Bush, whose policies, it can be argued, created many of the problems in the first place.
Floridians seem to have selectively forgotten the squandered Clinton surplus, the two wars, the failure to catch Osama bin Laden and the deficit spending.
They see the administration's stimulus program as a payday for Wall Street, forgetting that Mr. Bush began the bank bailout with TARP.
If the short term memory of ordinary Floridians is weak, among the Tea Partiers it is non-existent.
They really don't care what Obama has accomplished in two years.
He is the avatar of Big Government and Big Elites. And therefore must be punished.
No one really knows the depth of Tea Party support. Is it truly a national populist movement or a loose assemblege of disaffected , aging Republicans who long for a simpler time when the issues and enemies were clear, America bestrode the world, children did as they were told and the poor were mostly out of sight and out of mind.
Is that what they mean with their incessant mantra of taking back the country?
Do they want to take It back from incipient tyranny or do they want o take it back to the 1950s? Before it's too late.
Homecoming Week and Gater Growling and all the parades and old time hoopla ended with a whimper----beloved Gaters went down to defeat at the hands of Mississippi State by a score of 10 to seven.
In an odd coincidence, later in the week the two great parent icons of feel-good television in the 50s and 60s died.
Tom Bosley the dad in Happy Days and Barbara Billingsley , Mrs. Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver died within 3 days of each other. He was 83, she was 94.
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