Posts Tagged Tea Party
Power to the People
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on February 21st, 2010
Back in the wild and woolly Sixties, “Power to the People” was a slogan often shouted at sit-ins and the other disruptive gatherings that characterized those tumultuous times. We hear similar chants today from those attending “tea party” events.
Reporters covering the various factions of so-called tea partiers tell us that there really is no central [...]
The Sad Demise of the GOP?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on January 16th, 2010
I was an active, committed Republican for 35 years. I worked in a Republican city administration; I ran for Congress as a Republican, and I was “mainstream” enough to win a four-person primary. That was in 1980.
Over the years, the GOP drifed ever further from the principles that had attracted me. A principled concern with limiting the authority of [...]
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