Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Bill Black — The Tea Party’s Tactical Brilliance and Strategic Incompetence


Bill sums it up brilliantly for your reading pleasure.

New Economic Perspectives
The Tea Party’s Tactical Brilliance and Strategic Incompetence
William K Black | Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City

I would simply add that it may be getting more difficult to put across a Grand Bargain that cuts the welfare state now that so many people are waking up and watching the news with their own interests in mind. It could have been snuck in under the radar and would have if the Tea Party had not vetoed it previously. Now it may be getting to be too late. Progressives are now in high alert and the Democratic politicians are not notice that they are being carefully monitored by the base.



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