In victory, tea party can taste only ashes
Commentary: This is the high point for the movement
By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Dozens of members of the antitax, small-government tea party were swept into Congress after last November’s elections, promising to take back the government from the bureaucrats and the big spenders. They promised to change the way Washington works.

Now, four months later, it looks as if the tea party might have its first real success in trimming the size of the government. They ought to be celebrating, and plotting their next move. Instead, they’re mad as hell.

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Honestly, it was the only battle they could win. For all their infatuation with the Constitution, they’ve failed civics.

And their math isn’t that good either.

In our republican, democratic, federalist system, a movement that represents only a third of the people (or less) cannot expect to get 100% of what they want.

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