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...jumped an ocean and half a century to bring forward this episode only because it seems so strikingly relevant. In a curious trick of history, the American Tea Party—those who protest Obama’s tax policies by evoking 1773’s colonial steeping of three shiploads of British loose leaf in Boston Harbor—have much in common with their ex-antagonist country’s Angry Young Men. They’re deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. They think (justifiably) that nobody takes them seriously. They lack any theoretically rigorous suggestions...
...have; they’re absurd. Like any gathering of the politically discontent, the movement has its share of loonies, guys in tar-and-feather just as happy smearing Obama as handing out Oswald conspiracy pamphlets. But the Tea Party still isn’t just some barmy half-brother of the GOP. Genuine Tea Partiers find much to blame with both major parties; beneath the noise, there’s a serious desire to re-examine the nation’s core values. They’d like to find their way back to those John Wayne-style golden...
...During water polo, I would sprint from the pool, [change], put on my soccer clothes and as I was sprinting down, my mom would have half a sub and my cleats and everything laid out,” Price says...
...polarized is America today? Not all that polarized by historical standards. In 1856, a South Carolina Congressman beat a Massachusetts Senator half to death with his cane in the Senate chamber - and received dozens of new canes from appreciative fans. In 1905, Idaho miners bombed the house of a former governor who had tried to break their union. In 1965, an anti-Vietnam War activist stationed himself outside the office of the Secretary of Defense and, holding his year-old daughter in his arms, set himself on fire. (She lived; he did not.) By that measure, a Rush Limbaugh rant...
...Americans say most members of Congress do not deserve re-election, up 10 points from 2006. Public skepticism about the Federal Government and its ability to solve problems is nothing new, but the discontent is greater today than it has been in at least a decade and a half. Witness the growth of the Tea Party movement, a diffuse conglomeration of forces that have coalesced around nothing so much as a shared hostility toward Washington. Or the Feb. 15 announcement by Indiana Senator Evan Bayh - a man who almost made it onto three presidential tickets - that he would not stand...