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Sunday, February 20, 2011

postheadericon Nixonâs regionalization idea useful today to the Tea Party

Rand Paul was interviewed last night on "The News Hour," a sign that the Tea Party has arrived on America’s comfy sofa.

Now the Pauls have a problem. They don’t have a plan. There are plans out there, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s book, Fed Up: Our Fight to Save America From Washington, provides an excellent manual. The difficulty comes in thinking regionally in a country that has been thinking globally since Alexander Hamilton. But when Richard Nixon was president he had an idea that may be suited to our times: regionalization.

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