thank you, boyden, i always feel so privileged to be with boyden gray. i often -- mostly boyden.'m always worried if i'm smart enough to be with you. anyway, i so admire boyden. i so appreciate your invitation. i want to talk about -- what is now known as the tea party movement. i know there's a lot of confusion about that. i've studied on it quite intensely as my general tendency might just mention. i am an academic by profession. i'm a professional economist. and my last years in the university were devoted to what was a new emergent field out of virginia with people who i always described as the aberrant behavior of people in public office. it's almost instinctive for me when i see something happening out there that affects public policy to study it intently. as i see this, this is another wave of grassroots conservatism. and i think i forget the number but four or five waves that i observed intimately in my adult lifetime. and i would suggest to you that the wave is ordinary people expressing their concern for their country. and their concern and fear of what their government

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