"We can't measure this, and I'm not sure what good it would do us to know even if we could. What we do know is that this movement is backed by corporate millions, powerful media organizations, such as Fox News, and votes in Congress, and that it will be around for quite some time, advancing new fake scandals and lies. The next phase in all this, if health care passes, might well be 'nullification' lawsuits or resolutions in states that don't want to have to implement Obama's reform."
Michael Tomasky in The New York Review of Books traces the rise over the last year of Tea Party conservatives.
And Joe Carter in the First Thoughts blog at First Things wonders if conservatives have become cultists.
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