Topping from the bottom.

That's my take on this Tea Party hubabub:
Sometimes, those content to be more submissive in general -- here, the country's still vast taxpaying middle class -- rise up, for lack of a better phrase, when those in power forget where their dominancy is derived.

So it might not last long. (You don't take a critter like a hare and change his essential nature when he defeats a less able predator.) But you never know how things shake out when the action is over, and the relationships rearrange.

Personally, I wished we wouldn't have stepped in so quickly under Bush to bail out the country's (alleged) Top guys and gals -- the financial folk, hedge fund bettors-- the people who should have cleaned up after their messes, haven't learned a thing, and I'm betting will soon be back to their old tricks of profiting obscenely at the expense of others.

(Like rewarding a 16-year-old with a second, after he totals the first sports car you bought him... No. Make 'em work for the first. And pay the insurance before signing over the title.)

Of course, I understand Main Street, dependent on the biggies, would have hurt, maybe fallen in some places too. Call me a sadist like that, but I'm a rip-the-bandaid-off-quickly kinda person. This lingering hurt -- to so many who conserved, and played by the rules in play at the time -- might not be overwhelming, but it really deserved to be felt by those who begged it on themselves...


Those bottoming at the Top.







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* People fear the longterm bureaucratic effects of the healthcare bill will be as personally costly as the effects of government-mandated desegregation busing to achieve a well-intended goal in public education via plans created in theory on paper, from far away. In retrospect, not only bigots object to how that's turned out in our overall public education system.

It's one thing to provide poor people with basic healthcare; it's comparable to requiring public schools to be non-discriminatory in their admissions policies v. overreaching by prescribing methods that may -- or may not -- ultimately achieve their well-intended goal. People are wary of betting so much, right now, especially when so many other budgetary factors are in flux.

(Hth.)