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McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing
Oxford_Comma_Lover writes "Senator McCain decried Tea Party 'Hobbits' on Wednesday for their failure to support the GOP's debt deal, at times reading from a WSJ editorial that began the analogy. The Tea Party fired back, with a prominent member noting on CNN that McCain had been corrupted by the ring of power. The full text of his floor remarks should be in the Congressional Record later today."
The Tea Party is poisonous to the Republicans
The Tea Party apparently represents the will of the people as was demonstrated by the people voting them in in large enough numbers to shake the status quo. They are poisonous to "Party Politics" and the "Culture of Washington" and that is by design. That is what the people want to change, poison, kill. They will not fall back on their promises, and you deride them for that. No wonder this country is in such a mess. It's people like you, who cannot see the forest for the trees, who can only see in blue and red, that are the true cause of this problem. People who continue to re-elect politicians to fix the problems that they themselves created and expecting that to work. It won't, not now, not ever. Congress's approval rating is in the toilet, yet most of the people there have been for the past 20 years or more. It's time to drop party-affiliation and vote all of them out. I want to see a rainbow congress (metaphorically speaking) that represents more than just 2 view-points, but the views of as many American groups as possible. When the media paints the Presidential Map, I want to see more than 2 colors. The running of the government/country should not be left to the flip of a coin which is all a 2-party system can produce.
If having less government automagically makes things better, then Somalia must be the best place on Earth. Quite frankly, if you rightists have your way, America will become largely indistinguishable from third world nations like Somalia, so why go through all the effort of destroying America when your ideal society already exists elsewhere in the world?