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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Robyn Blumner
I am not in the habit of quoting Newt Gingrich approvingly. The former House speaker hasn't changed much since he was the bulldog and bullhorn of the
More voodoo economics, that's all they've got.
But in a recent interview, Gingrich did say something about the tea party that rang true.
"The tea party people are the natural heirs of the (Ross)
Gingrich is posing a challenge and a warning to the
But to co-opt the movement, the
When specifics on the group's leanings start to gel, they quickly turn into political quicksand. Last week, a couple of their leaders appearing on
Planks like this and other similarly radical ideas such as the one floated by Wisconsin's Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican on the
The groups would lose their seniors in an Ozark minute.
From everything I've read, the tea baggers appear to be an inscrutable mass of angry people, each with their own gripe. They want a small government, a balanced budget and tax cuts just so long as nothing touches their
Then there are people like Jeff McQueen, who was featured in the
Why is a man who wants government to more tightly control the economy in a movement that seems to call for the opposite? This is the kind of all-over-the-map incoherence that will frustrate Republican attempts to corral the group's supporters.
Another foreboding aspect for Republicans of Gingrich's parallel between the tea party and
A new poll from
There isn't much on which Gingrich and I agree, but I do think that the
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