I agree with this article. After the wildly successful 2010 mid-terms, propelled by vigorous grassroots Tea Party energy, the GOP-E did everything it could to pour cold water on the movement, pushing it aside and basically saying “get lost, we’re the professionals, we’re in charge, we know better; you unruly flyover-country hicks.”
I’d personally love to put a dagger in the skull of the GOP-E.
Yep, and Boehner went ahead with raising the debt ceiling when there was plenty of spending that could have been cut.