Over a cup of tea in an ordinary suburban home, Moran confesses why she left the intelligence agency after just five years.

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After all, the Tea Party is not an organic uprising of ordinary Americans.

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But the Republicans also claim to speak for ordinary Americans, many of whom are supporters of the Tea Party movement, and who aren't millionaires and have no prospect of ever becoming so.

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As the system gathered momentum, the ordinary ration came to encompass meat, cheese, butter, margarine, bacon and ham, tea, preserves, sugar and cooking fats such as lard.

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