After the shutdown debacle, the tea party's approval rating is 23 percent.

[Scuba]

In other words, it's the first time the tea party has ever been supported by a minority. ~ Jay Leno

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Nice to know the size of the problem.

The irreducible minimum is 23%. Not quite as bad as I thought. I'd have guessed about 32%.

[kentuck]

3. 51% of Tea Partiers don't consider themselves Republicans.

I saw that in a poll this morning.

Since about 30% of America consider themselves "conservatives", that means about 22% of Republicans nationwide do not approve of them.

[SummerSnow]

2. Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times

So yeah the tea party are a bunch of back stabbing political group

[Cha]

4. Oh, that's funny, Leno..