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Well, I should probably add that I view the "Tea Party movement" not as a political or social movement so much as a bunch of angry supply-siders who decided to vent their anger through a few protests, Facebook, and Twitter. It was newsworthy for a while because of the sheer numbers, but that's the way the media works when it comes to large groups of vocal people.
That said, the Tea Party movement has yet to convince me that they are concerned about much beyond fiscal policy, and a particular period of fiscal policy decisions at that. They're against Keynesian recessionary economics--I get that. What I don't get is how they expect to do anything beyond, perhaps, influence decisions on emergency stimulus spending.
An attempt by someone who might want to run for president with the Republican Party to win the hearts of people voicing that they want little more than tax & spending cuts is a good idea.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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