[Peace-discuss] Jokers to the right, maybe, but where are the clowns?

[C. G. Estabrook]

	Clowns to the left of me!
	Jokers to the right!
	Here I am stuck in the middle with you.

	Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
	and I'm wondering what it is I should do.
	Its so hard to keep this smile from my face.
	Losing control yeah I'm all over the place.

[The Tea party movement - a crazy quilt of new growth forest, weeds, and 
Astroturf - is growing up outside the limits of allowable debate policed by the 
Republicans and Democrats, causing them some anxiety.  They know the interests 
they defend have less and less support among Americans.

But where is the escape from those limits on the left?

As all recent presidents have, Obama advertised to his masters - American elites 
- in the Mendacity of Hope that he could successfully occlude the contradiction 
between the goals of that small group and the mass of Americans ("Bring us 
together again!") and his principal - perhaps his only - success so far has been 
the co-option of the anti-war movement.

Perhaps the Tea-partiers will gives an example - and maybe even the moxie - to 
get it together again.]


	Republicans seek 'Tea Party' allies


The Tea Party political movement in the United States has been gaining momentum 
since early last year by appealing to conservative Americans who want lower 
taxes and smaller government.

Thousands of people are attending the first Tea Party convention in Nashville, 
Tennessee. And its something the Republican Party has taken a keen interest in.


http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/02/201026182135711755.html

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