Hissy Fit

Andrew Sullivan responds to the tea partiers:

The protestors keep saying that they want their country back. Sorry, my
fellow small-governmenters, but this country is a democracy, and you didn't lose
your country, you just lost an election. You had your chance for eight years.
You blew it, and you lost. What Obama is doing is what he was elected to do. The
principled response is not a massive, extremist-riddled hissy fit a few months
in, but a constructive set of proposals to build on universal care for a more
market-friendly and cost-conscious system in the future. You have to win some
political credibility for that; and then you have to beat the man you lost so
badly to last year. That's the civil and civilized way forward for the right. It
also seems, alas, to be the one they are currently refusing to take.