[T]he Tea Party has proved to be a fraud, betraying the professed ideals from which it sprang.
[Tebaggers] never intended to govern, or -- God forbid -- compromise. They were birthed by Fox News and right-wing radio, where fact-challenged outrage is the blood that keeps the heart pumping.
The public, certainly, has soured on them, even in the reddest of states. A Pew poll in November of 60 districts represented by members of the House Tea Party caucus found that just 25 percent of constituents agreed with the goals of the group.
And because Republicans hitched their wagon to the Tea Party, they share the crash.
[S]ome people are mystified that the Tea Party has disappeared. They shouldn't be. It was a media creation, and such things, whether Kardashian or political, never last.
