Tea Ball

It wasn't that long ago that pundits and their like were suggesting that the Tea Party had run its course here in the early twenty-first century. Just a few years ago, Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle, floated the possibility of armed insurrection in a radio interview: "I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."
Eight years ago, Michelle Bachmann asserted, “If we took away the minimum wage, if conceivably it was gone, we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.” The same woman who assured voters in Iowa three years later, “…the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.”
After the 2012 election, when only four of the sixteen Tea Party candidates won their races, it appeared that the Party of Tea was on its way out.
Well, now we have the IRS to thank for its resurgence. All that whining about how they weren't being treated fairly turned out to be true. Katrina Pierson, a Dallas-based tea party leader said, "This is the defining moment to say 'I told you so.'" Oh, and apparently they are rubber and we are glue. Sticky, messy glue that smells a little like Benghazi. Never mind that this is the group that gave us "legitimate rape,"and covergirl Bachmann who reminds us that, “There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.” The Tea Party's odd, poorly constructed clubhouse was about to collapse under its won stupidity, and now it would appear that the Internal Revenue Service has swooped in just in time to save them from their own ridiculous beliefs. "What's happened here is a reminder of, this is what happens when you expand government," Senator and Poland Springs spokesmodel Marco Rubio said in an interview with The Associated Press. "That and the disaster that is Obamacare is going to be a real catalyst in 2014 and beyond."
Meanwhile, the disaster that is The Tea Party lives to fight another day. When was the last time the IRS did something nice for you?