I will wait until next November, the public is very fickle, but I am betting the Dems would prefer that the TEA Party disband. I doubt using them to rally the troops will change many voters. Most who are against the TEA Party already would vote Dem anyway.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
archer wrote: How convenient you don't mention the Republican controlled House....you conservatives just can't bring yourselves to take responsibility for anything, it's always someone elses fault.
Right now it's all your fault. I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to shoot out yer porch light.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Yawn, asked and answered. In 06 and 08 at home, thus the d's rise to power. Now that they have proved themselves unable to legislate themselves out of a paper bag they will be shellacked again in 12.
The only question that remains is will establishment r's get back in control and continue to screw the country or will citizen "teabaggers" rise to the surface and start to fix things?
So far I haven't seen any indication that the Tea Party has even the slightest clue how to "fix things". There is such a thing as making a problem worse, and that is precisely the direction I see the Tea Party taking us.
Truth is, in my opinion, only time will fix this economy, we are too entwined with the world economy that no matter what we do as a country, we will not really fix our economy until the world economies stabilize too.
archer wrote: So far I haven't seen any indication that the Tea Party has even the slightest clue how to "fix things". There is such a thing as making a problem worse, and that is precisely the direction I see the Tea Party taking us.
As opposed to our current administration, who's listening to the fevered ramblings of a drunken sot about economic theory and going the spend SPEND SPEND
route?
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
It would be equally easy to insert Democrat, Republican, atheist, soccer fan or any other group you want in place of Tea Party and have the same results. Polls are what they are a limited number of people whose views are ass-u-me-ed to reflect the nation as a whole. Sometimes they are right and a lot of times they are wrong. BIG Deal, but again, JL, if this quells some of your fears and you want to believe in it, so be it. The world is full of people with odd beliefs.
LadyJazzer wrote: Yes, 65-80% is such a "limited number of people." Keep whistling past the graveyard, and jus' keep doin' what yer doin'....
It's a percentage not a number of people. All it takes is a sample of 4 out of 5 people to get 80 % . Duh. So where do you get the large number? I take it the poll censored a million or two people? That is a large number and likely to get close to reality.
archer wrote: So far I haven't seen any indication that the Tea Party has even the slightest clue how to "fix things". There is such a thing as making a problem worse, and that is precisely the direction I see the Tea Party taking us.
Truth is, in my opinion, only time will fix this economy, we are too entwined with the world economy that no matter what we do as a country, we will not really fix our economy until the world economies stabilize too.
If our economy can be repaired.
I do have to disagree with you about the world economy, while the US and Europe are still stumbling, the developing world is coming on strong. The Economist this week was predicting China will overtake the US in less than a decade now.
I do agree with you that the current bag of tricks, (D)'s trying to spend us out of the recession hasn't worked, nor have tax cuts inspired the capitalists to risk their capital.
Maybe the US just has to realize we are going to be in decline for awhile and can no longer afford the extravagant social contract that has been cobbled together over the years. (Is Greece our canary in the coal mine?)
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
