The stationmaster checks the time as he sips on a cup of milky tea, but anyone could be forgiven for supposing he is waiting for a train that departed decades ago.

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These two darlings of the Tea Partiers made clear that anyone who tries to portray their grassroots movement as exclusively concerned with balancing the budget (important as that is) does not understand the conviction they and their cohort share about a Constitution grounded in Judeo-Christian values and the obligation to provide for the common defense.

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She would usually send me to ask whether it was coffee or tea that he wanted, if he was expecting anyone for lunch, or if there was anything else he needed before she left.

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"I see no sign that anyone is trying to read social conservatives and tea partiers out of the party, " he said.

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