Seems to me that the tea party has been co-opted into the GOP.
“Tea Party groups around Georgia are mobilizing to challenge Republican state elected officials they’ve deemed RINOs - Republicans In Name Only”
There’s a reason for what is happening. Case in point our new GA 7th District US Congressman Rob Woodall. Heck of a nice guy, great personality. We just elected him in 2010 and he will just tell you all day long how conservative he is. We have been to two of his townhalls. At the last one we attended I stood up and made the comment that the Super Committee was unconstitutional and why in the world would he ever vote to waive his own congressional power much less agree to raise the debt ceiling for basically no corresponding spending cuts. He assured me that the Super committee was indeed constitutional and that he had total confidence that they would come to an agreement on cutting $1.2 trillion since is was such a low bar to get over. Well we all know how that has turned out.
In addition he has sent us all a newsletter and made a video of him on the floor of the House of Representatives talking about finding common ground. There is no common ground with the Dems at this point in history. What a waste of time. This guy has only been in the Congress for a year and he is already totally co-opted by the GOP elite leadership. Boehner tells him how to vote and he does it. So yes we need to do some house cleaning and thank God the Tea Party is keeping an eye on these worthless fecks.