I thought the Tea Party was all astroturfed and would have no influence at all.
They have begun setting up the bogeyman for why they lost - the evil Tea Party Nazis. Karl Rove will be blamed too - American Crossroads.
You think they’re going to blame Obama, but they won’t - at least not publicly. Privately, TPTB will be plotting on a way to get Obama off the ticket in 2012, but not publicly. They’re going to try to take down Obama, but make it look like the Republican’s fault. It will be all venom, all the time at the Tea Party and that’s actually a good thing.
If the Democrats go off on a tangent against the The Party for the next two years, rather than regrouping, rethinking, moderating and running on issues, they will face decades in the wilderness.