Blaming It All On the Tea Party

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James W. Ceaser and John York
07.15.2011

With the breakdown of negotiations on a so-called grand bargain on the debt limit demanded by President Obama, liberal commentators have sought a convenient scapegoat to account for the impasse. Not surprisingly, they have begun by rounding up the usual suspect: the Tea Party. Its intransigence, so the line goes, has sunk this great deal.

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For two years now, “Blame the Tea Party First” has been the Democrats’ favorite mantra. “Firsters” invoke the Tea Party to make sense–for themselves–of the otherwise inexplicable fact of large-scale public opposition to President Obama, and they hold the Tea Party responsible for many of the nation’s deeper problems, from incivility in our discourse to an inability to set aside intransigent partisanship.

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A stroll down memory lane provides a reminder of the Firsters’ shifting characterizations of the Tea Party. About the only constant in their analysis has been its political opportunism. The baggers have been charged with seven deadly sins.

1. They are uneducated poor racists.......
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2. They are uneducated poor dupes.......
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3. They are privileged whites who don’t want to pay their fair share......
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4. They are folks with understandable concerns, but they don’t comprehend what will solve our problems......
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5. They are just the old-conservatives rebranded......
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6. They are parts of a fragile and conflicting coalition......
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7. Supporters are historical fetishists, concerned with quaint and outmoded things like the principles of the Revolution and the Constitution......
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Gosh! Now I'm really confused. Am I poor rich confused or a fetishist (ok there they might be on to something )

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And that damn outmoded Constitution. We should just scrap it, it is sooooo old and maybe getting moldy even. Ewwwwwww.