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No. I have my problems with the Tea Party, like the fact that they have been far too timid about tackling entitlements and that military spending is still too much of a sacred cow for them, but I can't with a straight face pretend that a group of people who have, in my opinion, correctly identified the problem (an overreaching, incompetent, and corrupt government) and are advocating a specific set of solutions (said government butts the fuck out) is quite the same as a group of people whose entire movement is literally predicated upon sitting around and bitching about how bad their lives are and how it's everyone else's fault but theirs. And I realize that might in fact be an overly generous summary of the Occupy movement, since it ignores what appears to be a growing predilection towards fits of violence and other degenerate behaviors as well as the fact that, with the exception of the Paulbots, their solution to a corrupt government is MOAR GUVERMINTZ, but hey, I am feeling particularly charitable today.