Sustaining the Unsustainable

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THE TEA PARTY, the most welcome political development since the Goldwater insurgency in 1964, lacks only the patience necessary when America lacks the consensus required to propel fundamental change through our constitutional system of checks and balances.

If Washington's trajectory could be turned as quickly as tea partiers wish - while conservatives control only one-half of one of the two political branches - their movement would not be as necessary as it is. Fortunately, not much patience is required.

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Sustaining the Unsustainable

The Goldwater impulse took 16 years to reach fruition in the election of Ronald Reagan. The tea party can succeed in 16 months by helping elect a president who will not veto necessary reforms. To achieve that, however, tea p...

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