And they said it wouldn't last...
When the economy crashed in September 2008, the Tea Party left the Republican Party. They didn't like all the debt that Bush and the Republicans had run up. Republicans panicked. They couldn't afford to lose such a large bloc of voters.
When Obama won the election in 2008, the Republicans thought of a way they could get back into the good graces of the "new" Tea Party. With groups like those headed by Dick Armey, they started a huge PR campaign against Obamacare. They talked about "death panels" and such. They marched. They worked up these folks into a frenzy. They brought flowers and candy and gave them whatever they wanted. They ended their separation and made up in time to defeat the Democrats by historic numbers in the election of 2010.
But the relationship was strained from the beginning. The Republican Party gave the Tea Party whatever they wanted. If they didn't, the Tea Party threatened to run candidates against them. This scared the holy crap out of the Republican Party. So they attempted to become more and more like the Tea Party, in order to stay in their good graces.
And when the Tea Party wanted to shut down our government and crash the world economy, the fearful Republicans went along with them. The Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader in the House were arm and arm with the radical demands of their demanding partner.
When the radical demands were defeated in the Senate and the House, the Tea Party let it be known, in no uncertain terms, that they could no longer live with the Republican Party, especially those Republicans in the US Senate. They felt betrayed. Tonight they delivered the divorce papers.
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