Ted Rall for September 27, 2010
September 24, 2010
September 29, 2010
Transcript:
Tea Party Circus: Ted Rall Man: Republicans suck! I'm gonna fina a better way! Dresses like Paul Revere. Tea Party Rally. Voting republican as usual. Loud talk on cable tv. Don't forget your initial. Collecting petition signatures.
I suggest that the so-called «Tea Party movement» is to be taken seriously. There is no doubt that it is being used by people like the Koch brothers to keep their taxes at a minimum and fight organised labour, and by some leading lights in the Republican Party to regain political power in Washington. But just as the Tea Party is being used, it - or rather, its leading figures - are using those who are bankrolling and supporting it to attain power on its own terms. Historical analogies are always misleading, but relations between the NSDAP and such figures as Franz von Papen are perhaps instructive here….
Henri