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Conservatives get defensive when called “mean-spirited.”

But I do believe that, by and large, the current conservative/tea-party movement IS mean-spirited.

The number of uninsured Americans now exceed 50 million! Yet the conservatives rail on against “Obamacare.”

Yes, the poll numbers for the health care bill have dropped considerably since initial passage. Should we change public policy month-by-month based on fluctuating poll numbers rather than elections?

Most of the really useful provisions of the health care bill don’t go into full effect until 2014, so most people don’t feel the positive benefits yet. And shame on the Democrats for leaving all the talking points to vacuous tea partyers while running away from the issue in the November elections.

Democrats who don’t have the courage to stand by the principle that the richest nation on earth should ensure all its citizens health insurance deserve to lose in November.

Why don’t the tea partyers go after public roads paid for by taxes next? All I see from the tea party is hate, demagoguery and misinformation. The whole lot of them seem less interested in actual facts and civil discourse than they do in stirring up base, ugly human emotions. Which is always easy for demagogues to do.

Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Christine O’Donnell, Glenn Beck and and the whole Tea Party crowd actually seem to revel in their ignorance.

And I don’t see Democrats really forcefully fighting back out of fear of the ugly public mood stirred up by these modern-day equivalents of the “Know Nothing” party of the 19th century.

Maybe a group to counter the tea party is needed.