The Tea Party and the Occupy Movement: two sides of the same coin but only the former really gets it

That is, like, soooooooo Tea Party

My mother always used to tell me that what was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander. Apparently not. Many of the same people who get swivel eyed about Tea Party rallies are running out of laudatory epithets for the various ‘Occupy’ protests.

Back in January it only took a pair of crosshairs on a web page for New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to deduce that the Tea Party were behind the horrific shooting of Gabrielle Giffords.

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Religious Keynesianism and Obama's blind faith

Peas in a pod

In the film ‘2010’ Milson tells the astronaut Heywood Floyd “Whenever a President is going to get us into serious trouble they always use Lincoln”.

During his much trailed speech on jobs in front of a joint session of Congress last week President Obama took no chances throwing in Kennedy along with Abe. But given the content of the speech he might have been better invoking Nixon; if two wrongs don’t make a right, try a third.

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