The Tea Party is going to have a difficult time going from protestation to actual politics. It's a protest movement; they'll have to evolve if they want to play politics.
I'm wondering if Obama will take a chapter out of Bill Clinton's book. Isn't this outcome a kind of mirror image of what happened to Clinton in his first term?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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