[Mars]

IIRC Canada is still 'left' of the states.

[Ford Prefect]

Still the best piece on the Tea Party I've read. Matt Taibbi tears them to shreds and vacuums up the leftovers.

[Polpolion]

Still the best piece on the Tea Party I've read. Matt Taibbi tears them to shreds and vacuums up the leftovers.

well hello there!

[NGTM-1R]

Still the best piece on the Tea Party I've read. Matt Taibbi tears them to shreds and vacuums up the leftovers.

I give it high marks for readability and very bad ones for being a piece designed to preach to the choir.

[Lucika]

Still the best piece on the Tea Party I've read. Matt Taibbi tears them to shreds and vacuums up the leftovers.

"A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it. [...] They're full of ****. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending — only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry's medals and Barack Obama's Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending — with the exception of the money spent on them."

My excerpt for those who don't have the time to read it.

[Ford Prefect]

well hello there!

Hi!

I give it high marks for readability and very bad ones for being a piece designed to preach to the choir.

Yeah, his rhetoric tends to be more vinegar than honey, but he knows his stuff inside and out, particularly concerning the financial system. His arguments are at least as well-researched as they are heavy-handed

[LordMelvin]

Why do all the good countries have to be in cold climates? :[

Because most of the time, lazy people gravitate towards warm climates, leaving the metaphorical cream of the human 'crop,' people who are willing to actually do work,  in the colder climes.

In unrelated news, I spent today traipsing around doing yard work in two feet of snow, and this post is in no-way self serving.

(And at least one thing said in this post is completely, verifiably true. Two, if you count this parenthetical...)

[Nemesis6]

Still the best piece on the Tea Party I've read. Matt Taibbi tears them to shreds and vacuums up the leftovers.

That image basically explains the whole article!

[Grizzly]

Why do all the good countries have to be in cold climates? :[

Because you have to work hard in order to stay warm.

[Black Wolf]

Why do all the good countries have to be in cold climates? :[

On topic though, I found this kinda humorous. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/27/us-taxes-nassau-teaparty-idUSTRE70Q5NY20110127

[Grizzly]

Note that all the major cities are in the cold areas .

That Reuter's article is somehow not suprising.

[Spicious]

They're only cool relative to the really hot areas.

[NGTM-1R]

There's Darwin, but they somehow don't count.