Nope, not good journalism. Conclusions and generalizations by the writer substitute for actual quotes from the candidates. The tenthers simply want states to take responsibility for what the feds are doing now. That, in itself, is cause for making a case against them, but to claim the entire social safety net would collapse in one fell swoop is oversimplifying to the point of diminishing the writer's credibility. Articles like this one hurt, rather than help progressive arguments to preserve these programs.

It sounded like an interesting piece. But ended up being poorly organized, structured, and supported. I learned little, and wound up being fairly confused by the end. It would have been good if he'd quoted the actual language of the tenth amendment.

The article uses some constitutional and political history, and identifies an ancient philosophy that collects many of the tea party Koched up ideas. Interesting.

Fantastically well contrived to make you think you are about to lose the right to pay your son for mowing the lawn. The intent is to lie and scare and not vote republican. I felt o0bligated to give a review because of comments I have made. I gave up quoting on quoting slights and implicative lies, because the whole article is one such. I would 've prefered to give a '1' or 'F' to save the open-minded from wasting their time.

This blog post has modest journalistic merit. The author lists some of the Democratic Party talking points about Republicans as if they were facts. The tea party candidates are a very diverse group, something the author apparently does not know. A few quotes are taken out of context and labeled with what the author apparently intends as a disparaging word, "Tenthers". The author ignores the fact that the number of minorities in Congress and elected at the state level will go up significantly due to the tea parties supporting candidates such as Allen West, Nikki Haley and Charles Djou. So how can the tea parties be labeled as against freedom for all Americans, when they strongly support equal rights?

I wasn't familiar with the term "Tentherism," and what it entails in regards to the constitution until I had read this article. The writer did a great job of not only introducing the meaning behind the term itself, but explaining to the reader what it actually implemented. Job well done!

i dont really understand what this article is trying to say, the writer clearly does not sya any facts, more just rants.