>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
If Tea Partiers want less spending, I can guarantee they will be disappointed. Every Government is the highest spending until the next one. The biggest lie the Republicans have got over the ignorant is that they're the party of small government.
This in entirely possible. The Tea Party will doubtless be watching the GOP very very carefully. These guys aren't your run-of-the-mill bunch you can swing with pretty words. They are very committed to reigning in the spending. If substantial progress is not made based on their terms, then they will not stick with the GOP. It is also pretty certain that they would NOT then just hop to the Democrats. If politicians who run with the GOP do not perform, the Tea Party support may very well go to some other 3rd party in 2012. Who can say what will happen? But the facts are currently this... The GOP will 100% owe their victory tomorrow (however extensive) to the Tea Party vote. If they don't put Obama in a hammerlock and start rolling back his policies then 2012 will make 2010 look like a game of pattycake.



I will be amused to see the Tea Party TRULY want to cut spending--starting with their benefits first! Cut the military spending (Which needs cut badly) and make it stronger at the same time? Unlikely. Their retirement? Their community benefits? Tax meglo-corporation churches that are hardly non-profit? Cut spending on their grandchildren's schools?

I will be vastly amused if that happens. Of course that is required to start a moment that will save this entire country from debt--but let's be real WP, it is not going to happen because the Tea Party is full of crap.

I am sad by this.

If Tea Partiers want less spending, I can guarantee they will be disappointed. Every Government is the highest spending until the next one. The biggest lie the Republicans have got over the ignorant is that they're the party of small government.

This in entirely possible. The Tea Party will doubtless be watching the GOP very very carefully. These guys aren't your run-of-the-mill bunch you can swing with pretty words. They are very committed to reigning in the spending. If substantial progress is not made based on their terms, then they will not stick with the GOP. It is also pretty certain that they would NOT then just hop to the Democrats. If politicians who run with the GOP do not perform, the Tea Party support may very well go to some other 3rd party in 2012. Who can say what will happen? But the facts are currently this... The GOP will 100% owe their victory tomorrow (however extensive) to the Tea Party vote. If they don't put Obama in a hammerlock and start rolling back his policies then 2012 will make 2010 look like a game of pattycake.