On Center, but not on Target

Mr. Thomas Friedman, in his NYT Op-Ed piece writes "That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center."

Radical Center? That is what Obama and many others have been trying, for a long time. The Center has moved way to the right, so that the "right-of-center" a couple of decades ago are considered "left" now.

Op-Ed Columnist - A Tea Party Without Nuts - NYTimes.com: "The radical center is “radical” in its desire for a radical departure from politics as usual. It advocates: raising taxes to close our budgetary shortfalls, but doing so with a spirit of equity and social justice; guaranteeing that every American is covered by health insurance, but with market reforms to really bring down costs; legally expanding immigration to attract more job-creators to America’s shores; increasing corporate tax credits for research and lowering corporate taxes if companies will move more manufacturing jobs back onshore; investing more in our public schools, while insisting on rising national education standards and greater accountability for teachers, principals and parents; massively investing in clean energy, including nuclear, while allowing more offshore drilling in the transition. You get the idea."