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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThere is nothing that makes me angrier than mild-mannered people pretending they're angry.\n\n\"I am angry!\" swore New York's previously not-so-mad gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, who is known for displaying a robotic lack of emotion and an equally robotic head of immovable hair. \"You take a poll\u2014'Are you angry?'\u2014100 percent are angry. How can you not be angry?\"\n\nI must have missed that poll in which 100 percent of people said they were angry. Wouldn't that make anger pretty ordinary\u2014you know, nothing to get upset about?\n\nOf course, what Attorney General Helmet Hair was really mad about were other, more alarming polls that showed that his dramatic lead was quickly evaporating and he could be beaten by an unhinged, porno-loving Tea Partier. (An old coot named Carl Paladino who got in trouble for mass-forwarding bestiality videos and who loves the Constitution so much he couldn't wait to e-share his First Amendment rights to deepthroatlove.com.) So now, like every other politician caught up in the Angriest Year That Ever Was, Cuomo was trying to convince us he was madder than a stallion getting it from both ends.\n\nI'm sorry. I can't take any of this anger seriously. Not the Tea Party's nor the Dems and Boehner-heads who are frothing at the mouth in order to keep up with it. It is unearned anger, anger that has no consistency, no memory or future, and that, as such, will gradually lift like a temper tantrum after the next election.\n\nConsistency? What I want to know from Tea Partiers RE their hot simmering rage is, Where was it before? When it was called for\u2014when your country needed it. Why weren't you fired up and out in the streets in your colonial britches when President Bush drunk-drove the country into the hell of the Iraq war, which not only put our troops in harm's way but has cost us\u2014and here's where I thought you might relate\u2014possibly $900 billion (!) of your tax money? (More if you count the cost of caring for our soldiers, and please do.) Tea Partiers! Compatriots! We could have used your rage, your rabid hatred of taxation, and your Magic Markers in that fight. But you were nowhere to be found, because your anger had not yet been funded by corporate interests.\n\nSomebody did actually say something sensible in that Cuomo news conference, but it wasn't Cuomo. He was being endorsed by New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, who's just about the only politician who has risen to the challenge of all the gibbering anger and mock mosque fights and had the cojones and the foresight to call the Tea Party a \"fad,\" which it is (except that most fads don't come with witches running for office in Delaware). \"The public is mad, frustrated. I understand that,\" said Bloomberg. But he said, \"Anger is not a governing strategy.\"\n\nHey\u2014why isn't this Bloomberg guy running strategy for the Democratic Party? He says it straighter and clearer than anyone else out there.\n\nOn the other hand, while I abhor most of the Tea Party's policies, their race baiting, and their pantaloons, I don't much fear their rage. Come on, admit it: It's kind of cute, actually\u2014all those people gettin' all upset about governance and stuff. How can you be angry with them unless they're directly calling you gutless and boiling you in effigy?\n\nAnd sure, in these midterm elections, the movement will take some people out, but for the most part, they will be people who deserve to be run out. I will shed no tears for Charlie Crist's sun-kissed candidacy. Come Election Day, some loonies will sneak into the asylum, but what would Congress be without loonies? The question is really: Will the Senate become 5 percent crazier? Or 7 percent crazier? And will it matter? I would never argue that it doesn't matter who wins, or who controls Congress, because it does, but after these last two years, I'm no longer sure how much it matters. Despite some key victories, Democrats lost the national conversation\u2014they even lost the conversation about their victories. I'll root for their principles, but they deserve whatever happens to them. And no amount of late-breaking anger will change that.\n\nThe other day somebody asked Cuomo if he was worried about the crazy dude running against him. \"No, I'm just angry,\" he said. \"I have one emotion at a time, and my focus, my emotion today is angry, not worried. I guess you could be angry and worried at the same time, but I'm just angry.\"\n\nOkay, now you're really pissing me off."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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