Riddle me this: why are certain GOP congressmen now being referred to as "Tea Party" members?

[phantom power]

The MSM is now throwing this phrase "Tea Party" around, like it was an actual political party.

Did they run, and get elected, under the "Tea Party" ticket? Far as I understand it, no. They're All Republicans. Calling these nut-cases "Tea Party" is just another way the MSM enables GOP insanity. It lets the GOP off the hook for the nut-case wing of their party that they're responsible for egging on.

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[dkf]

1. There is a caucus.

Just like the CBC.

[phantom power]

2. Interesting, so "Tea Party" is referring to the caucus?

[HopeHoops]

3. The teabaggers are just a faction of the GOP, just like the so-called "Christian" coalition.

[Ohio Joe]

4. If one is a repug, one is a teabagger

They are one and the same, embracing lunacy at every turn.

[AlinPA]

5. There are enough of them to control the House, and they got their seats with teabagger support.

[emulatorloo]

9. +1. They are the reason we are in this mess. Won't vote to raise taxes, willing to default

Ideologues and true believers.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. To do so is to serve the GOP by claiming they are not all

just Republicans. See, they want to say 'those Tea Party members' instead of 'those Republicans' because they are trying to preserve the Republican brand. Call them Republicans, that is what they are. There is no 'Tea Party' and if their was, they'd have too few votes to matter at all.

[PoliticAverse]

7. MSM sloppiness... There is a Tea Party Caucus...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus

60 members in the House, 4 in the Senate.

[Lifelong Protester]

8. I would like to hear them referred to as "Members of the Tea

Party Caucus" or have to split off as a third party. They do not need any more 'legitimizing' by the MSM. Lord knows, they have everyone else fawning over them. Let 'em go solo, raise their own funds, see if they can tear away from the GOP. Who knows? Insane.

But what is my opinion worth? Nada.

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[Johonny]

11. As far as I can tell Tea Party refer to people loyal to Demint and Cantor

They are the Republicans hand picked by their billionaire backers over the main Republican party's choice of candidate. Thus you have a Republican party in charge of the house who is having an internal fight over leadership. It would be happening in the Senate too if they took control.

The primary difference in the two sections is who's $$ they follow and how incredibly stupid they are. Normal Republicans are greedy and stupid, Tea Party republicans are totally incompetent and loyal to the fault of asking Jim Jones for a second glass of Kool Aid.