Huffpost Politics The Blog   Brian Ross Headshot  Throw the Bums
In!  Posted: Updated:  When the economy stinks, and CEOs are
getting millions in bonuses for firing enough of you, and you
can't toss GE's Jeffrey Immelt out on his ear, but you can vote,
it can seem mighty appealing to "throw the bums out" to vent
your rage. The bums poised to be thrown in, though, make reality
TV contestants look like Rhodes scholars, and become the very
thing that the Founding Fathers of this country feared the most.
Tea Party Taxes the Political System  The Tea Party umbrella is
bigger than the Travelers' Insurance company's. Its leadership
covers a wide spectrum of the disaffected, from the more
extremist Republican fiscal conservatives and rebranded GOP
Libertarians who want to dismantle the government; to the varied
temperatures of racist who fear "their" America slipping away;
to the delusionals who confuse their flag-wrapped zealotry with
true patriotism, to the religious whack-jobs on messianic
missions to reshape the