Stop calling the Tea Party the Tea Party they are Republicans, period.

[stultusporcos]

Currently Congress has Democrats, Republicans and Independents.

No one currently in Congress was elected as a member of the Tea Party.

The Tea Party is not even an official political party they are just your typical crazy Republican.

[LeftofObama]

1. I often refer to them as the

republican teabaggers.

[JoePhilly]

2. Teahadists.

[stultusporcos]

4. Would Love to see PBO and Dem Leadership refer to them that way

one can dream..................

[wandy]

3. Teapublicans. Bought and paid for. The lot of them.

[Dawson Leery]

5. The tea party is the hard right flank of the GOP.

Remember the "pro-war" rallies during the run up to the criminal Iraq War? Tea party!
The tea party is the hard right flank which threatens revolution whenever they lose an election. When they win, the are the worst cheerleaders for the party, no matter what they do.

[Flashmann]

6. I wouldn't dream of affording them any

Credibility by terming them a party.......They are merely simple minded teaBAGGERS.....They deserve neither respect nor serious consideration......

[leftstreet]

7. 'Tea Party' is so 2010

It was a media mindset more than anything

Its useful purpose was making centrists look lefty

[robinlynne]

8. good point.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. I agree, in fact the term was coined because the Republican brand was Bush stained

They are all Republicans, as you say. No such Party as the Tea Party, they are just Republicans and nothing more.

[Bucky]

10. This distinction parallels the debate on the guilt of that woman who pushed the guy onto the subway

Some people are saying, "She's got to be sick in the head, laughing about the victim being killed. Lock her up in a mental ward and see if she can be fixed." But others are arguing, "No, she may have had anger problems, but she had the capacity to know what she was doing was wrong. That's not 'crazy' unless all assaults are crazy. Put her on trial."

So which is it, psychopath or merely a sociopath who let her impulses run over her judgment? Are they like any other Republican, capable of being members of Congress with bad ideas? Or are they a special variety of Republican, incapable of responsible behavior, the unnatural spawn of two generations of reckless demagoguery, rising like Frankenstein's monster to haunt the egomaniac that created them?

[moman]

11. Real Good Point!

For a long time the media tried to convince everyone that these were "independents."Truth is they are just the same old Right Wing Republicans who created this con and the media dutifully brought in to it?Got to be "fair" you know!

[Buzz Clik]

12. Pretty much all Tea Party types are Republicans, but not all Republicans are Tea Partiers

The Tea Party is a distinct subgroup of the GOP. At the moment, they are the albatross around the GOP's neck.

[bluestate10]

13. You are exactly right. The tea party is the old religious right, the old segregationists

and the old bashers of women.