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The Economist <\/em> \u2018s \u201cLexington\u201d correspondent offers a cheer or two to the Tea Party movement. It starts snidely: \u201cThey are not French.\u201d Snarky, but it has a serious point: For all the frothing attacks on the Tea Party from Democrats, none of them have barricaded streets or set fires in DC. They\u2019re not French. <\/p>\n More importantly: Instead of demonstrating on behalf of shorter working hours and more extensive benefits, the Tea Party wants less from the federal government. As Lexington says, \u201cin how many other countries would a powerful populist movement demand less government, rather than endlessly and expensively more? . . . If that is what the tea party movement is for, more power to its elbow.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Economist \u2018s \u201cLexington\u201d correspondent offers a cheer or two to the Tea Party movement. It starts snidely: \u201cThey are not French.\u201d Snarky, but it has a serious point: For all the frothing attacks on the Tea Party from Democrats, none of them have barricaded streets or set fires in DC. They\u2019re not French. More […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n