The Limits of An Extreme Ideology, Cont'd

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THE LIMITS OF AN EXTREME IDEOLOGY, CONT'D
Steve Benen
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023172.php

Republicans in D.C. and Tennessee were "giddy" about recruiting Stephen Fincher to run against Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.) in the midterms. Fincher, a 37-year-old farmer, never went to college, but he's a blue-eyed charmer with a knack for raising lots of money.

He's also been the recipient of generous sums of money from the federal government.

But for one important detail, Stephen Fincher could be a perfect "tea party" candidate: a gospel-singing cotton farmer from this tiny hamlet in western Tennessee, seeking to right the listing ship of Washington with a commitment to lower taxes and smaller government.

The detail? Fincher accepts roughly $200,000 in farm subsidies each year.

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For the right-wing crowd, subsidies for 32 million Americans with no health insurance is outrageous, but subsidies for conservative farmers is not an issue "at all."

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1. Just another mendacious duplicitous MFing RW hypocrite from the Volunteer

State. Being a native, can spot and smell 'em a mile away. :-)