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I think you've missed the point:  The Tea Party serves Obama and the DLC/Third Way/No Labels-controlled Democratic Party well.  It's a paper tiger, getting far more air time in the media than its numbers deserve.  You have to remember that Mitt Romney wasn't the Tea Party's choice as standard bearer for the Republican Party, yet he got the nomination.  The Tea Party makes up a sliver of the total number of Republicans.  

If you think the Tea Party is any kind of a threat, then the time to have put them down was during the healthcare debate, when members of Congress were canceling Town Hall meetings.  Shutting down Town Hall meetings served Obama and the Medical Industrial Complex (Big Insurance, PhRma, Big Hospitals) keep their lock on high-priced medical treatment.  It prevented rational discussion of how expanding Medicare, public healthcare, where the best medical care at the lowest costs are achieved and is what Americans want.  When tea baggers say, "No government healthcare, and keep your hands off my Medicare", the solution is education.

There are times when the interests of the right and the left converge, and that was one of those times.
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