One of two things will happen. Either the Tea Partiers will be really upset about this, and protest, threaten primary challenges, scream about RINO’s, etc. Or they will realize that they got what they wanted (GOP victories in midterms), and now they will basically shut up about the gop and continue their attacks on Comrade Obama.

My guess is the latter. The Tea Party was primarily disgruntled gopers. Now that they’ve won, their mood has switched to gruntled, thus they’ll accept business as usual, as long as it’s controlled by the GOP.