Call me old fashioned. But, when a whole lot of people get together, all across America to protest Washington's bizarre spending habits and government takeover of private companies, this seems like news.
The Tea Party movement has been mocked, slandered, and smeared at every opportunity for a simple reason -- it's getting members of the "silent majority" who make the country work, out of their armchairs and into the streets where they're being inspired to go to Townhall meetings, call their congressmen, and vote. Today's political landscape will probably look very different after November of 2010 and the Tea Party movement will deserve a lot of the credit.
Chris Matthews - The Darling of the Democratic party and the mouthpiece of the Obama Administration continues to babble. And, his comments about West Point being the enemy camp was outrageous.
On this evening's Hardball, Chris Matthews called Dick Cheney "the bath-tub ring of the Bush administration."
Obamaism is still alive and dong well. He will be office until 2012 and has changed America profoundly during his short time as President.
A third and final ingredient to Obamism is the Chicago way. Here we see an interesting updated version of the old big-city, Daley thuggery. Rahm Emanuel threatens recalcitrant congressmen with reminders of the long Obama memory. The Axelrod/Jarrett clique ensures that the government channels stimuli to blue-states, that key Congress people are bought off with tens of millions of government largess, that every campaign promise . . .
