Op-Ed Columnist - The Tea Kettle Movement - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - The Tea Kettle Movement - NYTimes.com: "The issues that upset the Tea Kettle movement — debt and bloated government — are actually symptoms of our real problem, not causes. They are symptoms of a country in a state of incremental decline and losing its competitive edge, because our politics has become just another form of sports entertainment, our Congress a forum for legalized bribery and our main lawmaking institutions divided by toxic partisanship to the point of paralysis."