Conspiracy Theories And The Tea Party

I was looking for one thing, and stumbled across this. It's starting point was the blackouts that happened in January, 2011, in Texas, and elsewhere. Then it proceeds to the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations, and on and on.

In typical Tea Party style, I'm sympathetic to about half of what's in the video. It's not entirely wrong, but it's not entirely right, either. You'd think that an objective presentation would mention the trouble in Texas was a direct consequence of the astonishing cold snap in the Southwest. It hadn't been that cold in the Southwest in forty years. No matter what kind of system we had, there might have been trouble. But he doesn't even mention it.

Anyway, I don't want a free market in coal combustion. We tried that in the 19th Century, and it wasn't pretty. Look at China! They got a free market in coal over there, and right now people are dying.

The Tea Party was started as an astroturf project by the GOP. Now, the GOP is trying to shut it down:

According to The New York Times, the “Conservative Victory Project” is “intended to counter other organizations that have helped defeat establishment Republican candidates over the last two election cycles. It is the most robust attempt yet by Republicans to impose a new sense of discipline on the party, particularly in primary races.”

The Karl Rove-backed American Crossroads is behind the effort, which will support more traditional Republican candidates in Senate and congressional races. The project already has a target, the Times reports: Representative Steve King, a right-wing, six-term Iowa congressman, who has his eyes on the state’s open Senate seat.

I prefer my own Conspiracy Theory, about the GOP/Los Zetas guns alliance (Patent Pending, despite the mockery I'm getting). I don't try to make it an overarching conspiracy theory, and I can change it, or abandon it, if it seems awkward or begins getting absurd. My pride isn't that involved. Big conspiracy theories, however, are just too complicated.