The editorial in today's edition of USA Today makes a good point, which is that the influence of the Tea Party movement on the current GOP is forcing all the prospective Republican candidates for the 2012 nomination into ideological straitjackets, resulting in compromise-defeating inflexibility which will make it harder to solve the nation's problems. All the serious possibilities are running around telling anyone who'll listen that they never really meant all those things they said and did prior to the morning of they day they announced they were running. The possibles who meet Tea Party standards of ideological consistency are Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, one of whom is mainly interested in hogging the media spotlight and raking in the moolah hand over fist. In any event, it seems increasingly likely that whoever ends up with the GOP nomination will be a clone of the Palin/Bachmann political monster, or will pretend to be. That's really disgusting and depressing to think about.
The counterpoint to the paper's editorial (The Opposing View) was submitted by former U.S. Representative Dick Armey (R-Texas), who currently serves as chairman for an outfit called FreedomWorks. Armey and FreedomWorks are often referred to as the organizational forces behind the Tea Party, meaning what we have is Dick Armey and his dick army. In the future, I plan to use the terms Tea Party and Dick Army interchangeably.
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