That’s No Angry Mob, That’s My Mom: Team Obama’s Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans by Michael Graham Regnery Publishers, Inc. March 2010 259 pages ISBN 978-1-59698-619-0 Hardcover: $27.95 or $16.81 at Amazon.com There’s a point where blind arrogance becomes comic, and we passed the punch line long ago. Sometimes things get so bad that humor must serve as a release for pent-up frustrations. Radio talk show host Michael Graham believes the current administration’s attitudes and policies are so egregious that they warrant not only apprehension but also derisive contempt, and he copiously delivers the latter. But he’s not alone. A lot of people feel the same way—and thus was born the Tea Party movement. Graham’s mother was there practically from the beginning and can attest that the Tea Parties are not the result of Republican Party astro-turfing (although the Repubs are still trying to co-opt them and unfortunately might one day succeed). In chapter after chapter, Graham skewers the utopian ideologies that inform the present government’s decision making in public policy, and you don’t have to be a Tea Partier to see how lunatic all of these schemes really are. As he notes at one point, the scruffy, idealistic radicals

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