“A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can’t imagine it.”
More:
“Tea & Crackers,” Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone (long and well worth reading).
“Proof that the Tea Party and GOP base are the same thing,” Steve Kornacki, Salon.
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