we ll have more on the president in a bit but first best case of making the major parties blink. like it or hate it, the rise of the tea party. i still don t understand where they came from. is it they ve just been so successful. i think that means we re winning. it s shocking to any. they did not grab as many congressional seats a they would have liked, but they did grab the washington establishment by the collar. the tea party exists because of partisan politics. and the tea party gave the partisans a hard shake. all people do is [ bleep ] about how people don t vote and there s apathy and blah, blah, blah. now you ve got these people out there and half the country is going, ooh, freaky. i think these guys have been great for the system. i don t agree with the ideology, but citizen activism