I guess we`ll see very shortly whether the Tea Party has any real clout with the GOP when whatever `deal` comes to light from Boehner regarding the Fiscal Cliff rears its ugly head.

Will current House republicans tell the Speaker to pound sand? The next Congress that takes effect on 1/2/13?

Spare us the lofty rhetoric and let`s see some real action.

We´re heading for another recession next year. Probably would have had one regardless of the election outcome, but oblamer´s reelection sealed the deal.

So oblamer is being obstinant, purposefully refusing to bargain in good faith with Boehner, wanting to "go over the fiscal cliff", so that he can blame the coming recession on the republicans in congress.

The pubbies should seriously give Him everything he wants and just vote ´present´ when it comes up for a vote. It will be painful, yes, but there would be no way anybody with more than a handful of functioning brain cells would buy his predictable excuse that it was the fault of congressional republicans. He would own it lock stock and barrel.

Maybe then the honey boo boo crowd would wake up. Sometimes you really have to hit rock bottom before you accept that things must change.

With 0bama´s second term the SCOTUS is lost for a generation, 0bamacare is here to stay, the majority of what used to be called "Americans" are being frog-boiled into a socialist stupor, and there will be no hope for economic sanity or recovery of our free market until King Barry is dethroned.

All the tea party can do is sit back and say "We told you so" until a real American conservative leader emerges.

If Republicans go along with Obama in any way, they ARE betraying the country. The electorate is now too dumb, the GOP too passive, and the media too biased to change ANYTHING. How many times must we tell Republicans that since you will always be blamed for things, just do the right thing. Americans are never going to "get it" now until everything falls apart. Vote "present" and go home. Boehner´s warnings about staying at work over Christmas are empty and everybody knows it anyway.

He is right. For many of us there is no other variable option. Do we support the fascist Marxist Democrats? Do we support the European lite socialist Rebublicans? No, we move on to a party that actually believes in liberty.

What happened in the 2010 elections? Conservatives were in the streets and in their faces. Pitchforks in the streets are what gets the attention of the media and the dead head voters. The ignorant and the gullible take passion for sincerity. And in their stupidity they tend to believe if crowds are in the streets and passionate about what they believe then they must be right. THAT is how the left manipulates the "low information" (stupid) voters. It makes them appear to be the majority since the other side never shows up.

Well , in 2010 the opposition did show up in the streets. And we won hands down with historic results. Now, we are letting the stupid party do the work and they have no clue how to advance the agenda. Unless conservatives get in the streets to save our country, we are doomed.

Count me in!!

I´m In. to old to run, gotta fight.

If they want another demonstration on the Mall or surrounding the Capital building, my car is gassed-up and ready to go. Seriously, I would love a road trip to Washington to show our elected leaders we are not happy campers.

#10 may have a good idea! Pick a day (and inaguration day seems perfect), to visit our nations capital by the hundreds of thousands and let our officials know we are not pleased!

Many who initially embraced Tea Party ideals, like me, have come to the realization that our problems won´t be fixed by petitioning politicians and a corrupt, broken system. So we´re quietly seeing to our own needs in anticipation many things we take for granted are going to break soon.

There was a report that, when legislation was before the Senate to criminalize the act of aiming a laser beam into the cockpit of an aircraft in the air, only one senator - Rand Paul- voted against it. Be careful of what you wish for. You might get it.

The Party is just getting started. It´s time to redouble our efforts and finish what we´ve started. God is on our side!

#7, I think that was before the Tea Party broke down into splinter groups squabbling about which was the REAL Tea Party.

Tea Party.net? Is that related to the Tea Party Express, which is the name on the podium in the photo? How do they feel about the Tea Party Patriots, who regard themselves as the only true Tea Party? And where does Tea Party Nation come into the mix? And all the other splinter groups?

Get back to me when they coalesce behind an agreed-upon set of ideas.

And somebody better muzzle Paul Broun before me makes any more idiotic remarks about embryology being an idea spawned in the pit of hell. He makes Todd Akin look like Einstein.

The Tea Party should not be the tail that wags the dog. Anything which divides us further should be eschewed.

The past, in its simplicity, was ignored in the recent election. Anything which divides us, such as calling people "Rino´s", is bad. If conservative voters don´t go to the polls and vote for the candidate who opposes the liberal for election, the conservatives will lose, as they did.

I would have voted for Jo Jo the Dog -Faced Boy if he had been the Republican nominee. Could he have made a worse president?

Sooooo, its Ok to be a liberal republican, but you can be too conservative?

Tea Party is the greatest gift the Democrats could have ever hope for. Please leave my party. Yes my party. I was a Republican when the Tea Partyers were voting democrat like they and their kin had since the civil war. They have come in and made our party look stupid, racist and above all, the pawns of the very rich. And no God is not on your side.

The Tea Party will have a great impact during the mid terms. It is these off year elections that the "high information" voters turn out. There will be primary challenges just like in 2010. "Low information" voters will stay home as usual since a celebrity like Obama isn´t on the ballot. They are already back in their holes watching the View and Honey Boo Boo.