In which I offend my two remaining Conservative readers...

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 09 May 2010 12:16:10 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Joel Simon fisks a response Jim Bovard posted on his blog to his recent Christian Science Monitor essay. Well done, Joel! The comments to Bovard's blog post are good too, though the contents of that post, angry tea partiers calling Jim Bovard a liberal, of all things, are painful to read.

This particular self-selected subset of the Tea Party movement hate big government, unless it's fighting wars against brown people far away. Then they love it. Of course, the Tea Party movement is diverse, so painting them all with the same brush isn't accurate.

The topic - Bovard's essay - was originally supposed to be about the Tea Party movement. I used to think I knew what the Tea Party was all about, but I was apparently wrong. More and more, Tea Party activists come across to me as just another bunch of conservatives, who'll buy anything - any outrage from that "big government" they claim to hate so much - as long as it's making them feel all exceptional by "projecting force" on people far away, or saving them from the 'terrorists who want to kill us all.' It makes me sad, because for a brief, shining moment the Tea Party was actually kind of interesting. But that's the way it goes.

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