Will the Left Finally Get the Tea Party Now? By Joel B. Pollak. Breitbart, March 7, 2013.
Pollak:
Democrats
and journalists like to describe the Tea Party as “hostage-takers,” holding
Republican leaders and moderates in their thrall while they try to dismantle
the government. But in reality it is the Washington elite that have taken the
country hostage, forcing through expansions of government power and spending
vast sums of money that the nation will struggle for generations to repay. The
Tea Party represents the last chance to escape the zero-sum politics and
economic stagnation that has plagued much of Europe for the last several years.
As Paul
continued, liberals who once railed angrily against Bush were forced to
confront the fecklessness of their own party. Hollywood’s John Cusack asked: “Where
are the so-called progressive Democratic senators?” Meanwhile, the supposedly
racist Tea Party Senator from Kentucky was leading the charge. It was not a
political ploy for votes, or even an attempt to block one of President Obama’s
nominees, which Paul acknowledged he would fail to do. It was just a stand on
principle—which is what the Tea Party has been about all along.
