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The Tea Party's Phantom Menace

For all the fountains of vitriol and frantic media coverage aimed at the Tea Partiers, the movement doesn't have the money or sophistication to win anything, much less roll back the new health-care law.

Lee Siegel
Lee Siegel
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Lee Siegel

Lee Siegel

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