Tea Party Logic

Quoted from Cynthia Tucker's latest column (without permission - I hope she won't mind, this deserves more publicity) on the US Tea Party.
The underlining and use of blocks is mine though:

They are mostly ultraconservative Republicans. They may be frustrated with the mainstream GOP, but they've aimed more of their fire at Democrats than Republicans. In Georgia, for example, it's no surprise that Julianne Thompson, state coordinator for the Atlanta-based Tea Party Patriots, is a longtime activist in Republican politics
But for all the supposed tea party anger about government spending, most of its supporters tend to favor entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, according to The New York Times. And they don't seem aggravated by the Pentagon's budget, either.
Why would they be? According to the Times, 57 percent of them hold a favorable opinion of George W. Bush, whose tax cuts, two unfunded wars and massive increase in entitlement spending -- the Medicare prescription drug plan -- wrecked the federal budget. Meanwhile, however, more than half the tea partiers told the Times that Obama's policies -- which they consider "socialist" -- favor the poor.
This really isn't a new blend of tea, after all. It's the same brew of ultraconservative ideology that's been served on the right for decades.

And my own comment on this, I expect that most of them will be happy to see an invasion of Iran under President Palin in 2013, no matter how much it costs!