Can we rip the lid off this teapot.

It's not a "party". It has no elected officials, and does not appear on any ballot.

It is basically a mooching adolescent, living in the GOP's basement.

Imagine. A white, northern-European magazine's white, northern-European researchers collect data on ELEVEN variables (Eleven? Really? Like, that must have taken a SUPER-DUPER-COMPUTER with an extra big hard drive. Did I say supercomputer? I meant smartphone. Vintage 1995 PDA really. Eleven variables. Shit.)

And their conclusion?

The whitetst, northernest, Europeanest countries are TEH BESTEST. Which countires are teh suK? Southernest, blackest, un-Europeanest. Film at... at... 11.

You know it takes more than 11 variables to figure out if a player is a decent Major League pick, right? Holy shit.

NO. AMERICA

@1

Probably 2/3s of the Republican House members consider themselves part of the Tea Party.

@5

No. The Tea Party Caucus counts 51 members, out of 233 Republicans. Not even close.

#5, #6

Were any of these people elected with under the banner of the "Tea Party" as the only referenced party name?

The confess GOP lives in fear of the tea party, they have been very effective at winning primaries

Ozzie! Ozzie! Ozzie!