Are Americans fed up with federal bailouts and stimulus packages? Of course they are, mostly...

All this after less than three months of the Obama administration, following eight years of President George W. Bush’s deficit spending.

Still, it would be an error to dismiss the tea parties as strictly a partisan phenomenon. Longtime Pocatello residents may recall the local revolt against property taxes led by the late Al Brewster, who gathered enough support to force local lawmakers to take heed of deep-rooted dissatisfaction.

Whether the tea parties can generate that kind of response in the citizenry remains to be seen...

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