American Politics: Who’s Running the Asylum?

American politics hey? Can’t live with it, past the table salt. The world’s greatest democracy is a fickle beast. It throws up all sorts of characters and odd balls and every now and then throws up situations that bring the country to brink of national crisis, I’m sure you all know what I’m talking about.

Take the tea party for instance. A movement that believes in very small government, reduced taxes (for the rich anyway), the constitution, but not federal government and they believe in guns – they love their guns.

Now I don’t know whether there should be too much read into this but the tea party movement was born in 2009 during the early stages of Obama’s Presidency as a protest against taxes and big federal government.

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