Quote of the Week

What makes the Tea Party dangerous is its members’ willful disregard for the most basic tenets of American democracy. They do not believe in the legitimacy of our president. They do not believe in the legitimacy of decisions handed down by our Supreme Court. Unlike President Obama, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, or a host of other Democratic and Republican lawmakers who grasp the basic reality of politics, they have never, not once shown a willingness to compromise on anything. Merely uttering the word is enough to draw a primary challenge.

- Jon Favreau, former chief speechwriter for President Obama.

That pretty much sums it up.  In fact, if you listen to a moderate average normal non-batshit Republican talk these days, he sounds pretty much like a Bagger when it comes to policy. For example, every Republican in Congress -- Tea-Bagger or not --  hates ObamaCare so much that they never stop talking about their hatred for it.  The disagreement in the Party is over what to do about it.

I think Chuck Todd said the other day that the Tea People are not fighting with the rest of the GOP over policy -- they're fighting over tactics.  That's putting it mildly, given that one radical GOP faction is willing to bring down the American economy over the Health Care Act while the rest of the Party is not.