If Romney gets the 'Mormon' treatment from the old media, then Reid deserves it too.
The reason Republicans have drawn such a deep line in the sand on tax increases, of course, is the Tea Party movement. The populist uprising that was born from Washington's bailouts achieved critical mass after Democrats decided to start spending like no government before. The stimulus. The ObamaCare overreach. Budget deficits that made President George W. Bush look like a piker.
Democrats were tossed from office in record numbers last November. That groundswell is shaping the 2012 campaign.
But Reid doesn't expect it to last.
"The Tea Party was the result of a terrible economy," he said. "I've said that many times, and I believe that." ...
Perhaps Reid is still savoring his November re-election victory over Tea Party darling Sharron Angle. Perhaps he's oblivious to the number of Democrats, in both House and Senate races, sprinting to the right to boost their 2012 chances. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking.
But there's no way the Tea Party is going away -- certainly not before the 2012 elections, and certainly not when the national debt is projected to shoot past $20 trillion before the end of the decade. Anyone who minimizes the Tea Party by extension minimizes the massive spending problems that created it in the first place.
Reid rationalizes that those problems are all Republicans' fault. ...
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