Consider two scenarios:
Pilot whose plane is lost somewhere over the Pacific, flying with a
defunct navigations system, on radio to anyone who will listen: “I don’t
know where I am going, but at least I’m making good time.”
Tea Parties to corrupt Washington, D.C.: “We don’t know how and where
you should cut spending, but we demand you cut our taxes and slash
spending.”
In either of these cases, a wise person can easily predict the
outcome: “Disaster just ahead.”
The coming Tea Party debacle is to me, a very sad situation. Such
promise, such great tactics, such incredibly poor strategy, such a horrible
failure coming right up. The Tea Parties are a great idea gone horribly
wrong. True, the people are angry and fed up. They’re staging a long-needed
popular rebellion, demanding taxes be cut and spending be slashed. Tea
Parties probably are going to get quite a few of their candidates winning
the November election and entering an otherwise corrupt and indifferent
Congress. But, what then?