Ed Morrissey posted an article at Hot Air today about a Time Magaine article saying that if hyperinflation arrives, it will be the fault of the Tea Party.  Just as a frame of reference, the federal government has raised its expenses 38% during the past three years and raised the debt ceiling accordingly.  The article also fails to mention that the Federal Reserve, in an effort to keep interest rates low as the spending skyrocketed, has been printing money at an alarming rate.  So how in the world would inflation be the fault of the Tea Party (which at this point has very little actual power–a situation that will change in January) ? 

The problem here is not that the Tea Party will be to blame for inflation.  For Time Magazine the problem is that the Tea Party espouses smaller government–a horrible concept to the mainstream media.  The thing to remember as you read this sort of article is that the mainstream media is part of the status quo.  The Tea Party is a major part of the opposition to the status quo.  The major media would like nothing more than to discredit the Tea Party in the eyes of American voters so that we can continue down the spending road we are on.  Since every American would be affected by the economic unheaval that will occur if we do not cut spending, I really don’t understand why the media opposes the Tea Party.