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By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:12:53 +0000

Both parties have forgotten how to add and subtract.

By: SKAY

SKAY — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:22:01 +0000

The Democrats are certainly not the answer if you are interested in fiscal sanity.

By: Samuel Goldman

Samuel Goldman — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:18:47 +0000

For a bunch of reasons, I’ve been reading a lot of pre-Civil War history these last few weeks. And it strikes me that the Tea Parties may belong in the tradition of the Anti-Masons and Nativists–populist movements that combined some rather good ideas with questionable motives and ugly ways of expressing them.

If the pattern holds, the good ideas will be absorbed into one of the major parties. Unfortunately, I fear that the GOP has absolutely no interest in fiscal restraint.