Tea Baggers Get Kicked Where it Hurts
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Huffington Post: It should come as no surprise that most of the political and pundit class in the beltway are looking in all the wrong places as they try to use the 2009 elections as a barometer of where the country is at. Out of all of the election results from yesterday, the anti-tax ballot measures in Maine and Washington (known as TABOR) provide a better political tea leaf into voter attitudes going into the 2010 election cycle than anything else. The good news is, progressives won big on a topic that will likely define the nature of the midterm election.
A central tenant of the right-wing agenda has been rejected with the defeat of TABOR (known deceptively as the "taxpayer bill of rights") in these two states - states that are diverse from each other in almost all respects. Maine's measure went down with a resounding defeat, 60% to 40%, while Washington's campaign came from behind with a 55% to 45% rebuff.
A few weeks ago, conservative columnist and tea party champion John Fund wrote in the WSJ that: "If voters in Maine or Washington state pass a taxpayer bill of rights, it will be a clear sign that even in blue states the public is coming to believe that government spending is out of control and that elected officials can no longer be trusted to rein it in. That's a message that will likely reverberate in Congress regardless of who wins in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races."
Well, what does a loss mean, John? It means that you were right; voters really did send a clear sign - a sign that extremist "Tea Party" leaders remain entirely out of touch with the people, and bereft of any actual solutions to real problems. The hyped populist anger around taxes has not translated to election victories. It's time to go back to the drawing board and determine what other "just say no" knee jerk ideas remain to hang your hat on for 2010.
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