After Sarah Palin's great keynote speech at the Tea Party rally in Iowa, virtually all of what she calls the "lamestream media" did what was expected and ignored her speech and only was concerned with "will she or won't she" get into the Presidential race.

New York Times columnist Anand Giriharadas is surprised that he heard some ideas of Ms. Palin that, as he says, cross the political divide. He cites three observations she made.

First: is that the U.S. is now governed by a "permanent political class", made up of both parties that are in disconnect with the American people.

Second: that both political parties are allied with big business in a scheme of "corporate crony capitalism" in their own interests for their own advantage.

Third: that the real political divide is no longer between the "friends" or "foes" of big government, but between the friends and foes of vast unaccountable public and private institutions.

To her first point she notes both parties stressing of spending cuts, but spending more and more. All of them arriving in D.C. of modest means and leaving wealthy.

To her second point she notes the position the legislators put themselves in. In between the money spent by government and the money spent by big business to secure decisions that help their businesses.

And third, and which the author says is most striking, she made a distinction between "good capitalists and bad capitalists". The good ones being the businesses that take risks and sink or swim in the open market, and the bad ones being the "well connected" mega corporations that live off bailouts, dodge taxes and generate huge profits while creating no jobs.

She then said something you liberals might like (except that SHE said them)

“This is not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk", she said of crony capitalism. “It’s the collusion of big government and big business and big finance to the detriment of all the rest — to the little guys. It’s a slap in the face to our small business owners — the true entrepreneurs, the job creators accounting for 70 percent of the jobs in America.”

Did Gov. Sarah Palin get a lot more interesting or what.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/us...0tZqZl8xOiUg7g