"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters."
Daniel Webster
Monday, April 26, 2010
A Second Serving of Weak Tea
Jesse Walker and Radley Balko look at the Tea Party. They find, not surprisingly, that members aren't really opposed to big government as long as it does what they want it to do.
After talking to some members of the Tea party crowd this has been my experience too. It's not fair to lable everyone in the movement, or even the majority, but certainly there are plenty of Tea Partyers with little philosophical consistency.
I had an experience similar to one you told me about at the only Tea Party meeting I've gone to. The second person who spoke was really upset about the growing debt and out-of-control spending, but he seemed most angry that he didn't get a Social Security COLA this year.
After talking to some members of the Tea party crowd this has been my experience too. It's not fair to lable everyone in the movement, or even the majority, but certainly there are plenty of Tea Partyers with little philosophical consistency.
ReplyDeleteI had an experience similar to one you told me about at the only Tea Party meeting I've gone to. The second person who spoke was really upset about the growing debt and out-of-control spending, but he seemed most angry that he didn't get a Social Security COLA this year.
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