To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Observercast

Praise For [Some] Tea Partiers

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BY FROMA HARROP When it comes to my sanity, the Tea Party often taketh away. I go nuts when they throw out huge sums to cut from budgets without getting into details. Ditto when they bash the scraps spent on poor children, then defend their plush Medicare benefits. Double ditto when they insist that they’ve paid for said Medicare bennies through their payroll taxes and subscriber costs. [They haven’t come close.] Then you have their […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.