Tea Party Not Going Down Quietly

I have to hand it to the Tea Party (or at least a handful of their representatives). They have temporarily scuttled two Republican initiatives this week, including an extension of the Patriot Act, and have had more success in making Speaker John Boehner look like a fool than the Democratic opposition. And they have 2012 Republican candidates running scared. Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Richard Lugar both face probable tea party primary challenges.