Culture and Politics

Amid the release of more than 250,000 State Department cables by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks on Nov. 28, journalists ignored the story’s most crucial elements.

Last Tuesday, the Democrats were unsurprisingly humbled in the midterm elections. The party lost its majority in the House of Representatives in the biggest power shift in the chamber since 1948. The Republican Party picked up at least 60 seats, with a few races still to be decided, and the Tea Party delivered on its promise to vote out the incumbent Democrats in record numbers.

My grandparents do not closely follow the national political scene, so when I was recently visiting them, they asked me which candidate I preferred in our home district, NY-23’s, upcoming congressional race.

Almost instantly after pressing the power button on my Insignia television remote, I hear that this is the year in which the tea party makes its anti-incumbent fervor known. It is the year in which the tea party votes out those slimy tax-and-spend liberals and replaces them with quintessential conservatives in November’s midterm elections.