Right wingers horrified by right wingers, Part II
Kathleen Parker, a conservative columnist at the Washington Post, is shrill:
The Tea Partyers who wanted to oust Barack Obama have greatly enhanced his chances for reelection by undermining their own leader and damaging the country in the process. The debt ceiling may have been raised and the crisis averted by the time this column appears, but that event should not erase the memory of what transpired. The Tea Party was a movement that changed the conversation in Washington, but it has steeped too long and has become toxic.It’s time to toss it out.
Comments
Kathleen Parker has slowly moved to the center, so I'm not sure that referring to her as a conservative columnist is accurate. She's not totally in the center, but she isn't as clearly on the right as she was 10 years ago, and she is clearly moving to the center, and that's okay. I say that as a self-defined conservative who has followed conservative columnists for 26 years.
I'm not horrified by the tea party or by any effort to balance the budget. If the citizens can't spend more than they have, the same rule should apply to Congress. Witness all the foreclosures going on as a perfect example of bad things that happen when citizens spending more than they have. Why would the outcome be any different for the people those citizens elect?
Posted by: Anonymous | July 30, 2011 4:39 PM