Vai MOTHER JONES:
By Kevin Drum
Its
birth certificate says that the tea party was born one month after
Barack Obama's inauguration, on the day that CNBC's Rick Santelli
delivered a blistering on-air tirade against Obama's mortgage bailout
plan. But that's only the official story. In reality, we've seen the tea
party before. When FDR was president, it was called the Liberty
League. When JFK was president, it was the John Birch Society. When
Bill Clinton was president, it was the Vince Foster conspiracy
theorists. America's far right fluoresces like this whenever a Democrat
is in the White House, and Obama's first term was no exception.
But the tea party burned bright and fell fast. [READ MORE]
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