i got this straight. liberals holding their party captive to more spending, fine. tea partiers holding their party to holding their party to spending, not fine. republicans considering a shorter debt extension until the end of this year to keep the heat on washington to resolve this bad. democrats pushing a longer-debt extension until the end of next year, after the election, to keep the heat off the president, good. no, not good. not good. not even right. the tea partiers aren't holding this process hostage. big spenders in washington are. a compliant and complicit media is. so tea partiers are nuts for saying this spending charade won't go on. democrats advocating continuing the charade are nuts so the spending will go on. come on, who is zooming here? tea partiers reminding washington it's the spending, stupid, or those hoisting more spending and just calling the tea partiers stupid.