The tea party movement claims to support the Constitution and believes socialism is distasteful.
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"The homeowner relief plan adopted by President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has not been working for a full year now.
This may be the most devastating, and most deserved, pieces of political journalism this year.
"As the nation struggles to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the people who got us here are desperately working to rewrite history. The basic story of this economic collapse is very simple.
In other words, here's my take on the Super Bowl ads.
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"As I continue to read the goings on at the Tea Party Convention, I am overwhelmed by my disbelief that this is a serious movement. However, when I step back to take a rational look, I completely get it. Humankind has a long history of rallying around hate and propaganda.
Worries about Europe's persistent debt troubles spilled into United States markets on Thursday, bringing stocks to new lows for the year amid fears that more countries would fall victim to crippling deficits.
"Conservative socialists first convinced Americans that we, the people are the problem, being too ignorant and incompetent to govern ourselves.
"The Citizens United campaign finance decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and a Supreme Court majority of conservative judicial activists is a dramatic assault on American democracy, overturning more than a century of precedent in order to give corporations the ultimate author …
"Why are Americans passive as millions lose their homes, their jobs, their families, their hopes of justice, and the American dream?
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