Tea Party vs. War Party? By Patrick J. Buchanan

[Demeter]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26494.htm

“We’re all on the same page until the polls close Nov. 2,” Richard Viguerie, the longtime conservative strategist who has allied with the Tea Party, told The New York Times. After that, “a massive, almost historic battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party begins.”..

The great issue uniting and motivating the Republican Party and Tea Party is the deficit-debt crisis, a national debt nearing 100 percent of gross domestic product and a deficit of 10 percent of GDP.

As to the cause of the deficit that could precipitate a run on the dollar, double-digit inflation, even a default, the Tea Party and GOP also agree — federal spending that consumes 25 percent of GDP...a Democratic Party, brutalized and bled on Nov. 2, returning to Capitol Hill with its moderate wing annihilated, is unlikely to collude with a resurgent Republican right and Tea Party caucus in hacking away at social programs that are the Democratic Party’s pride and joy, and the reason that party exists.

Which leaves one place where a bipartisan majority may be found for major spending cuts: defense and the empire, the warfare state.

yes!yes!yes!

[PSPS]

1. What a load. "The great issue ... is the deficit-debt crisis"

The great issue uniting and motivating the Republican Party and Tea Party is the deficit-debt crisis...

Yeah, sure. Except when a (white) republican is in the "white" house.

This is what passes for "educated opinion" from Nixon's speechwriter.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Pat never looked better...perhaps if more of his face were covered it might be an improvement.

[Tutankhamun]

3. What is happening in that pic? Who splattered Buchannan whith what, where, why, when?

I gots to know! :-)

[briteleaf]

4. Where the money comes from...

Think you're spot on about the right place to get the money beginning with the shutdown of our massive war machine and the cessation of the longest wars in our history. While we're at it, America's budget might be well served if we shut down most of our foreign troop deployments and brought them home as well. I'm having trouble understanding why folks are talking about ending the tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy instead of INCREASING the taxes of the ultra-wealthy. How about tax penalties for concerns moving jobs overseas and concerns with their offices overseas to escape paying taxes to the United States?

[COLGATE4]

5. As the late Ann Richards so brilliantly said it, "it sounded a

lot better in the original German".