So if you've ever watched CNN's The Situation Room, then you have no doubt seen Jack Cafferty being the network's lovable curmudgeon. If you're not familiar with him, he's a somewhat grumpy older man who speaks out as an olde soule and informs us, from under his caterpillar-like eyebrows, just how things have gone wrong in the country and who is responsible.
And y'know what? Most of the time he makes a lot of sense. For example, he was today saying that Americans and Washington generally are responsible for the oil spill because of our dependence on foreign oil and our total inability to reform our energy policies.
Lovely jubbly! But the problem with the Cafferty Files is that he never actually offers any solutions. It's more just a grumpy rant against the Forces That Are Doing Us Harm; the secret to Cafferty's relative popularity is that the moment he takes a side - and says, oh, we need to put a price on carbon - his popularity drops away.
I think this is the appeal of the Tea Party. They can't be taken seriously if they were to offer actual solutions, so they either on a conscious or subconscious level suppress the actual solutions and offer that which everyone today can buy into: rage!
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