The Tea Party captured a fragment of the American psyche and the right very skillfully used that momentum to tell a new story about deficits and fiscal conservatism.

FORBES: Obama the Politician

Her arias are models of compact expression, skillfully externalizing the very internal world of the story, particularly Mr. Parvin's distress.

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