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KANSAS CITY STAR: Desperate to Dismiss The Tea Parties. ?Democrats and other skeptics are desperat?

By Glenn Reynolds

KANSAS CITY STAR: Desperate to Dismiss The Tea Parties. “Democrats and other skeptics are desperate to dismiss the tea parties that popped up across the country today. . . . This eagerness to explain away this movement is telling, suggesting the skeptics see these gatherings as a real threat. Certainly the tea parties have an anti-Obama slant, but what we’re seeing is something outside the normal dynamics of Democrat-Republican tension. . . . It isn’t clear yet what the tea party movement is all about, but it can’t be dismissed as something that simply arose from shadowy GOP organizers.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).