Tea topper

The Commercial Appeal goes all man-in-full with Memphis tea party leader Mark Skoda - comparing the tea party to the rise of Jacksonian populism and Skoda to Old Hickory himself (didn't Jackson threaten to hang nullifiers?).

A quote: "Washington is not evil. Washington is us. But if I were king," he said with an impish smirk, "I would reform our government to a 21st century bureaucracy, not a 19th century one. I would get rid of the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Education. They're just employment pools. They don't help Americans at all. And I'd freeze federal salaries for 10 years, until the private sector catches up. For starters."