It has elected people to the GOP who are pledged to focus on the Tea Party goals. One of those, Ted Cruz, did his damndest in a marathon quasi-filibuster to impress upon the Senate that it needed to follow the lead of the House and defund or postpone Obamacare until it was ready for prime time. Who among us would now say that wouldn't have been the right call? Every one of them has voted to repeal Obamacare when they had opportunity to do so.
Almost all have kept their campaign promises to vote against inceased irresponsible spending and ever more government intrusion onto our civil liberties and unalienable rights.
And while they have won some concessions to favorably amend some bills--Boehner does need their votes after all to get stuff passed--they are still too few, most especially in the Senate--to have much power.
And unfortunately those who get their information only from the partisan leftwing media are being told constantly how evil the Tea Party is and are misled into believing that the Tea Party is doing all sorts of things and promoting all sorts of things that Tea Party groups overall simply don't do. But that's how the left stays in power isn't it. By making sure that anybody who doesn't support the leftist agenda is marginalized, demonized, ridiculed, and lied into oblivion.
That darned LW media covering the shut down over obamacare and suggestion we not raise the debt limit and effect that would have on obligations such as debt service and entitlements.
So what harm did that shutdown actually do? When you max our your credit card do you change your behavior? Or do you just ask the credit card to increase your limit and you continue the same irresponsible spending practices?
We specifically elected Tea Party candidates to do exactly what they promised to do if elected. And that means stop this travesty of Obamacare imposed on the American people--each passing day is demonstrating more and more that we were absolutely right to demand that. And that means stop the irresponsible spending, runaway deficits, unconscionable debt that the government continues to increase in order to keep itself in power.
I won't fault the Tea Party candidates from doing what they promised to do.
I only wish your messiah king that you elected had kept his campaign promises. We would be in a far less deep hole and wouldn't still be frantically digging it deeper if he had.