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crunched whether we re getting crunched on the libyan coalition thing. the pentagon says we are spending, just us, just us, $55 million a day on this whole libyan war that isn t to be called a war. the number is likely on the low end, since it includes things like bombs and missiles, not all the manpower and logistics and stuff like that that go with it. for now. let s go with the $55 billion figure. britain is spending $4.8 million a day. that is not even one-tenth of what we re paying. assume the other partners are paying similar amount. that might be a stretch. i can see italy, canada paying that but i m sure that spain and greece are not paying that. that would be a lot of money for denmark or norway or turkey. but again, let s go with it. say they re all paying $4.8 million per day. i ll even throw in our partners, qatar and the united arab emirate. i suspect it s a stretch since
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party, they re independents. but that s the nature of a coalition thing like nixon and agnew and reagan put together. there s a lot of strange folks there, but you got to welcome them all, not just the moderates and the establishment liberals but the good old working class folks as well. you may have answered my question then, pat. does this mean that the gop will end up or be forced to embrace the tea party principles? because if they don t, don t they risk challenge from within? no, here s the thing. republican party s got its ideas and the tea party s got its ideas. frankly, what you come down to when you get together is you got to work out inside your own coalition where you re going and what your positions are before you meet with the democratic party. and that s healthy. because a lot of what the tea party is for is much tougher, i think, more confrontational, more stand-up on principles certainly than the republican party. again, that may present a unique and significant c
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