i welcome rs views of the tea party good or bad example Beyond fiscal rectitude and less spending Tea Party candidates are targeting the central institutions of American government More than half of Tea Party backers say they d be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports changing the 14th Amendment to prevent the children of noncitizens born in the U S from automatically becoming citizens Tea Partiers strongly support Arizona s recent immigration law making failure to carrying immigration documents a crime That is why the Tea Party s insistence on holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to force its policies on the country the first time the debt ceiling has been used this way was so deeply un American Fareed Zakaria Paul Krugman The real question facing America even in purely fiscal terms isn t whether we ll trim a trillion here or a trillion there from deficits It is whether the extremists now blocking any kind of responsible policy can be defeated and marginalized instead of Monkey God rat bastard Niggar faggot White nationalists wouldn t the above sound more encyclopedic