Thursday, April 16, 2009

Graph included - Ross Douthat on the tea parties: "So if you're inclined to sneer and giggle at the Tea Parties, keep in mind that just because a group of protesters looks ragged, resentful, and naive, that doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong to be alarmed."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

...they're far more likely to reconfirm the majority in its opinion that American conservatism is increasingly wacky, echo-chamberish, and out-of-touch...The majority of whose opinion, exactly?

Cnn-hack "journalists"?

Anonymous said...

A better quote about the Teabagger Tots:
"Until the right is able to make a constructive and specific argument about how they intend to reduce spending and debt and borrowing, they deserve to be dismissed as performance artists in a desperate search for coherence in an age that has left them bewilderingly behind."