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[4. The TP needs to be specific about what runaway government spending they want ended. Social Security, Defense, Medicare, Veterans benefits....are they on the table? or only programs that help poor people?
None of those things are on the table for most tea partiers. And when you add interest on the debt to that, which you can't take off the table, that's pretty much the budget.
The tea partiers are just an overexcited bunch of Republicans or Republican sympathizers who can't get over the fact that they lost a couple elections. They can dress it up in any costume they want but that's what they really are.
I'm sure you're correct to some extent, but I don't see many Republicans rushing to do anything the Tea Party is demanding. In fact, I see (and hear) Republican Talking Heads like Limbaugh denegrating anything that smacks of third party politics. Hannity seems to have drastically altered course, from sneering contempt of a third party to leg humping Palin during Tea Party Rallys.
Rather than waiting to see if the Tea Party will join Republicans, Republicans should join the Tea Party. Their own platform is so watered down with bullshit, half-assed typical beltway back scratching it needs more than reform, it needs burning.