Voices
HOWARD
FINEMAN
HUFFINGTON
10.27.13
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15 Reasons Why American
Politics Has Become
an Apocalyptic Mess
WHY IS AMERICA on the edge
of a political and fiscal nervous
breakdown? We aren’t fighting
an external threat: no foreign
ism or axis. We’re simply shackled by our inability to deal with
our own finances. Why?
Street bailout of 2008, the stimulus of 2009 and Obamacare in
2010, the tea party aims to defund and delegitimize the federal
government. Crippling the legislative machinery is a means, but
also an end in itself.
HERE ARE THE 15 REASONS:
1. THE TEA PARTY
In radical reaction to the Wall
2. SLOW GROWTH
The tea party has a point — up
to a point. Politicians flagrantly
overspend on wars and social programs simultaneously because the
U.S. economy had always risen
Former
Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin
(R) and Sen.
Ted Cruz
(R-Tx.) recite
the Pledge of
Allegiance at
a rally to reopen National
Parks that
were forced
to close
during the
government
shutdown.