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(3,910 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2013, 02:12 PM Feb 2013

Papantonio: Is The Tea Party Over?

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In the 2012 election, not only were members of Congress who proudly wear the Tea Party banner voted out, but the ideas and hard-right views of the Tea Party were rejected across the country. The Tea Party has clearly lost its strangle-hold on the Republican Party, but have they finally been pushed into extinction? Mike Papantonio hopes to answer that question with Adele Stan, Washington correspondent for Alternet.