In his passionate keynote address at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), Fox News host Glenn Beck drew parallels between his struggles as an alcoholic and the GOP's "addictions" to big spending and big government. "It is still morning in America," Beck said. "It just happens to be kind of a head-pounding, hung-over, vomiting-for-four-hours kind of morning." Beck, closely aligned with the Tea Party movement, dismissed both major parties as profligate: Democrats "tax and spend," he said, while Republicans just spend. Is Beck's controversial 12-step rhetoric apt, or absurd?
Glenn Beck is a loose cannon: Despite Beck's claims to the contrary, says Bill Bennett in National Review Online, "many" Republicans, "from Jim DeMint...to Paul Ryan," have offered "real proposals" for addressing the GOP's recent problems with overspending. Party members are much better off listening to these voices than to Beck's "ill-informed muttering diatribes that can’t distinguish between conservative and liberal."
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