The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

The Tea Party

I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
'Twas very small-
Three guest in all-
Just I, myself and me.

Myself ate all the sandwiches,
While I drank up the tea;
'Twas also I who ate the pie
And passed the cake to me. Jessica Nelson North