Brit Paper: ‘These Tea Bags Are A Threat To Our Old Colony.’
First the Germans, now the British take notice to the unyielding, bad-poker-playing Tea Nation…
Presidential candidate and ultra-conservative congresswoman Michele Bachmann prays every day for guidance. “The American people are looking for someone who will say, ‘No’,” she said last week. “I will be that person… I won’t raise taxes. I will reduce spending. I won’t vote to raise the debt ceiling. And I have the titanium spine to see it through.”
Developing her theme, she added that the little people of America, factory workers and housewives, tell her: “‘Michele, stand strong. Michele, don’t cave.’ The American people are scared to death they have lived through the pinnacle of American greatness, that we may be in decline.”
The struggle to secure a deal between the Republicans and Democrats to lift the $14.3 trillion cap on the country’s national debt is seen by disinterested onlookers as a foolish squabble between self-serving politicians, whose silliness risks potential default on the US’s national debt and a first-order financial crisis within the next 48 hours.
If only it were just an ordinary political squabble. The reason the US is so close to economic calamity is that its politicians have existentially different views of the world. As the US faces stagnation and retreat from “the pinnacle of American greatness”, these differences have become crucially important. This goes to the heart of how the US can recover its greatness.
Bachmann, with her “titanium spine” and communion with God, is no normal Washington politician. Nor is she alone. There is the chair of the house budget committee, Paul Ryan. There is first-time congressman Jim Jordan, head of the Republican study committee that represents two-thirds of the Republicans in the house. For all of them, representatives of the Tea Party movement, the cause of the US’s problems is the federal government, federal spending and federal debt.