Unfortunately, the Damage caused by Roosevelt/Truman stacking the courts for decades with Liberal Kooks cannot be ignored.
It appears that the Tea Party is here to stay for a long time and their influence on state and federal elections will be a detriment to the Rinos and the Demo party. It's going to take lots of time. 2010 elections was a good start as the House was easily taken with a solid majority and the Dim Senate almost fell too. The Dem Senate should easily fall next year with 22 to 23 Dem/Lib Senate seats up for grabs along with the White House. We can thank Obama, Pelosi, and Reid for their daily, constant contradictions and hypocrisy over the years that the main stream media cannot maintain any credible obfuscation or keep it hidden from the public.
However, the Tea Party effort will have to last about a decade to see a good changeover to the DC liberal culture...Cull a Senate Rino or 2 every primary election along with making many incumbent Dems fall every two years and we may see a few reversals to liberal laws. Eventually, the liberal judges as they retire would start to follow suit as Congress is right-shifted over the next decade or so.
I have a fear that no matter how conservative members of Congress are when they go to Washington, the corrosive atmosphere of the place will corrupt them. I have seen this effect time and time again. The problem is they are surrounded by Liberal culture everywhere they look or go in that town. All the People in Washington, and specifically the News media assume liberal beliefs are universal as a matter of course. I am reminded of John O'Sullivan's first law:
" All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing."