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The Tea Party is portrayed as a bunch of terrorists because it insists on a balanced budget where the United States does not spend more than it takes in - by its not supporting a deficit ceiling increase and unbalanced budget they were going to "blow up" the economy.

Vice-President Biden has set up the Tea Party for a fall by naming it as "terrorists" for all kinds of penalties under the Patriot Act dealing with "terrorists". This is very clever of the government in using its laws to punish its political enemies. This is the type of thing we see in Russia, China, the Middle East, some South America dictatorships and other less enlightened countries.

Is this a good thing - the United States government dealing harshly with the opposition party?

See:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/palin-gop-respond-alleged-biden-terror-comment/story?id=14209743