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[Lee'sGhost]

GOPe twits maintain that the victory is nothing to sneeze at, especially since they have cut off their noses to spite their base.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Tea Party dead..? LOL!!!

[KarlInOhio]

One problem was that none of the potential Tea Party speakers were really working for it. They weren’t burning up the phones to get votes. It was like deciding to have a dinner party arout 4pm: you’re just going to have pizza and chips instead of a crown roast.

[Maelstorm]

Boehner had the biggest rebellion in nearly 100 years. We may not always win but sometimes making them sweat is enough.

[Amendment10]

Tea Party patriots really need to go beyond “flag, motherhood and apple pie” and get themselves up to speed with the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers in particular.

[KC_Lion]

The Tea Party will win against the Uniparty.

Uplifting Article Ping!

[DoodleDawg]

There can be no doubt whatsoever that if the TEA party movement did not deliver the stunning upsets it did in the Senate and increase the conservative presence in the House, not a single one of them would have been released.

Say what? Considering I believe that every conservative is dead-set against Obama's relaxing of the embargo, crediting them with the release of the prisoners is a huge stretch. The Castros want the end of the embargo as badly or worse than Obama does. They released them because they knew they had to in order to get the embargo dropped. There's still a lot of legislation that has to be repealed in order to end the embargo, and releasing prisoners isn't going to help that pass in a Republican Congress.

[BCR #226]

They can pretend the Tea Party doesn’t exist all they want. It’s not going away and it’s going to continue to eat away at the old guard establishment until they change.

They need to get with the will of the people or they will go the way of the dinosaurs.

[Billthedrill]

Boehner did not expect the blowback House members received for what he and the rest of the establishment thought was an entirely internal election, that is, internal to "us" in Congress as opposed to external to "them" in the grubby-fingered electorate. He's likely to roll over and go back to sleep now that he has the position he wants, but the people who burned the phone lines aren't going away.

I've told my rep that it's all about results now, not about optics. He voted for Boehner, he's married to him, and they start producing now or he's done. He's probably done anyway. No, the Tea Party isn't over, it's just getting started.

[BobL]

Here in Texas we watched the “Dead Tea Party” elect the MOST CONSERVATIVE bunch of Republicans ever elected in this state...and ALL OF THEM won by 20 points over the Democrats.

If the 2014 election is the definition of the “Dead Tea Party”, maybe we’ll get lucky and that “disease” will spread throughout the country.

[moovova]

"You don't exist because I can't hear you!"