All Posts Tagged With: "tea party"
Budget-Cutting Resistance
So here’s the problem: While polls show that people want the government’s budget deficit and the national debt reduced, they don’t want the biggest spending items cut. In the April 17 ABC News-Washington Post poll, 59 percent said that the deficit should be reduced through a combination of unspecified spending cuts and tax increases. But [...]
22Jun2011 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Anti-anti-authoritarians
The elitist critics can’t imagine a good reason for people distrusting big institutions that have wronged them.
24Sep2010 | Sheldon Richman | 33 comments | ContinuedTea Party Disconnect?
Someone had done his homework, but it was’t Dick Armey. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post reports: A member of the [National Press Club] audience passed a question to the moderator, who read it to [Freedom Works chief Dick] Armey: How can the Federalist Papers be an inspiration for the tea party, when their principal [...]
17Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued-
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