>Actually I agree with some (not all) of the general principles and might be able to agree on unemployment as well if there were enough jobs for everybody and if Tea Party Nation didn't do crazy things like asking small businesses not to hire new employees because a bad economy will hurt Obama's chances in the election.
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>You obviously know nothing about the Tea Party since you chose Tea Party Nation as an example. Tea Party Nation is not representative of the Tea Party as a whole.

I always find that kind of argument very thin, and wouldn't trust it to wipe anything. Inquisition is not representative of catholicism, foundation classes are not representative of fox programming, Cobol is not representative of programming languages... at least socialism had the balls to disown stalinism.

As long as any unrepresentative part is not officially excluded from the whole it unrepresents, it is representative of what they will tolerate in order to boost their numbers.