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Friday 29 July 2011
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| Barbara Tuchman |
Lost in all the deadline-brinkmanship taking place in Washington over the past few weeks is the momentous success of the rookie Tea Party representatives in Congress.
Almost single handledly, these 80 or so rookies have stared the Democratic president in the eye, and the Democratic majority in the Senate, and made them blink on a major part of the federal government's business.
Through appallingly bad judgment or craven folly (or more likely a dollop of both), President Obama and the Democrats have backed off any revenue increases (through the restoration of the crippling Bush tax cuts for the rich) in the current set of negotiations.
Chalk up a major win for the rookies!
And chalk up another one, this time over both the Democratic and Republican parties. The Tea Party rookies forced them to agree to dispensing with the time-honoured earmarks. With this, the Tea Party stripped its own party leadership of a major lever in negotiations on all bills and budgets in both Houses, and saved the taxpayers trillions over years to come by preventing elected representatives and senators have exercising mutual blackmail at the public's expense.
Not bad for a bunch of rookies.
Of course, backing the President off of any attempt to increase revenues when the federal government has been bankrupt for more than a decade is asinine, and all Americans will pay the price for this folly. Where's Barbara Tuchman when the USA needs her!
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