Palin and the tea party "movement": nothing new
by Glenn Greenwald
February 8, 2010

The "tea party movement" is just a Republican movement -- the standard-issue type that blindly cheered Bush and Cheney.  It's all the same nationalistic militarism and warmongering, Wall Street-subservient economics, and religion-based policy-making that has defined the GOP forever.  There's nothing new here.  If anything, it represents a demand for even greater allegiance to the Bush/Cheney mindset, for a more purist and even less restrained version of the national security insanity, civil liberties assaults, massive increases in the rich-poor gap, control of Americans' lives through "social issues," and endless wars which the Republican Party has long rhetorically claimed to embody.  Read the full story

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