I think politics is going to start to get very interesting now that these people have some power. I’m sure they’ll waste a lot of time with bullshit and investigations. They are going to do as little as possible but they are going to have to actually govern and the Tea Party agenda doesn’t work in the real world.
Make way for gridlock

One of the first tests of his ability to discipline populist revolutionaries fresh from the electoral barricades will come when the new Congress is asked to raise the federal debt limit from $12.4 trillion to $14.3 trillion. No Congress has ever refused to approve such an increase and, if such a refusal were to occur, the consequences for the global financial system would be apocalyptic. Many of the new senators and House members have pledged to vote against an increase in the debt. Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity — one of the more active national tea party groups — told Politico this week that the Republicans’ new House majority “cannot fold on the debt.”

It’s a very spooky prospect. What will they do? Follow the Tea Party and cause a global financial catastrophe? They are going to have to vote to raise the debt limit. They have to, there’s no choice.