“Bitter”, “Clingers”, “Astroturf”, “Crazies”, “Racists”, “Hostage Takers”, “Hobbits”, “Terrorists”, “Extortionists”…. whatever.
 
The Right is Right. The Tea Party’s call for fiscal responsibility has been the only voice of sanity in American politics for the last couple of years.
As Janet Daley affirms in her UK Telegraph article: If we are to survive the looming catastrophe, we need to face the truth ~
 

The Tea Party faction within the Republican party was demanding that, before any further steps were taken, there must be a debate about where all this was going. They had seen the future toward which they were being pushed, and it didn’t work. They were convinced that the entitlement culture and benefits programmes which the Democrats were determined to preserve and extend with tax rises could only lead to the diminution of that robust economic freedom that had created the American historical miracle.

Thank-you!

We have arrived at the endgame of what was an untenable doctrine: to pay for the kind of entitlements that populations have been led to expect by their politicians, the wealth-creating sector has to be taxed to a degree that makes it almost impossible for it to create the wealth that is needed to pay for the entitlements that populations have been led to expect, etc, etc…
 
The hardest obstacle to overcome will be the idea that anyone who challenges the prevailing consensus of the past 50 years is irrational and irresponsible. That is what is being said about the Tea Partiers. In fact, what is irrational and irresponsible is the assumption that we can go on as we are.

 
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Related:
Obama’s downgraded America ~
S&P tells it like it is: the U.S. is out of money