Michele Bachmann Forms 'Tea Party Caucus' in Congress

I would like to see the government shrink by eliminating most if not all welfare programs and handing that duty over to each State. I would also like to see the Department of Education dismantled and handed back over to the States. In fact the only thing the feds should be involved in is maintaing the budget and making sure we are protected, in other words a strong military. There are way too many federal agencies, supposedly to provide oversight for this or that, which never gets done properly. The only thing this government is good for is paying these thousands of government workers their salaries. Getting the health care law repealed will help too in all ways. These are things the TPM believe in as well.

Aren't we all glad she'll not win in the upcoming election?

Might I be so presumptuous as to suggest that a Tea Party caucus would be no better, nor worse, than the Congressional Black Caucus? It is simply like minded people forming a group to discuss issues and come to, hopefully, good conclusions for the American people.

Michele Bachmann.....party of.....ONE!

Democrats actually LOVE the Tea Party because these fringe voices are ALL OVER the place when it comes to ideology, and there is virtually ZERO substance in ANYTHING they say. They are simply right wing "attack dogs" in lipstick. WHat this is doing is SPLINTERING the GOP base, and doing great HARM to their so called "candidates". It is really easy to stand up and complain about anyhting, but as Sarah palin can tell you, at SOME POINT, somebody is going to ask you to actually NAME some of those magazines that you supposedly read.

Ms. Bachmann is in danger of losing her Congressional seat, and the other national Tea party candidates, (Rubio, Angle, Paul, etc.) are failing MISERABLY in the polls. These people are saying that they are the answer, but it is OBVIOUS that they are actually....THE PROBLEM! Michele Bachmann wants to be the FACE of the PROBLEM....a good role for her to assume.

This woman has adopted how many children? She is a saint in my eyes , and the demonizing of the Tea Party thats been in full force recently , just shows that they are a forced to be reckoned with. Or demonized if you represent the left thats in big trouble in just 105 days.

$10 billion was given away last Dec - bribes for health care votes - that is "googleable". I was taught in my civics class that the congress approved bills and the president either signed off or vetoed them so it was a wake up call that elected officials could do this without the president's signature. When I saw this done in the movie Charlie Wilson's War (the congressman who gave %550 million to fight the russians in Afghanistan I was astounded. How do we as citizens change this from happening when the people playing the system are the very same people that should be protecting us???

Tea party is for lower taxes and less government, what's wrong with that? People aren't taking home enough of their own money, quit trying to give everyones money away when they bust their butt for it.

Why do the tea party folks want to give more huge tax cuts to the rich without paying for them? Even Warren Buffett and Bill Gates say that the rich don't pay enough in taxes.

Do we really need this pandering to the lowest common denominator in Washington? I am all for a more direct democratic process, but by recognizing this rapidly shrinking fringe group a legitimate seems anti-democratic.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; There is no Tea Party. Just another branch of the conservative republicans.