The Tea Party first captured the Republican party, then redefined the debt debate. Democrats must stop whining and start copying

It is time for liberals to praise the Tea Party, not to bury it.

Not for what it does, of course. The American left – and indeed, much of the not-so-left – is still reeling in shock from a debt ceiling deal that sees billions of dollars shaved off government spending programmes for the needy without a single cent of extra taxes for the rich. But

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