I'm officially changing my donation tag to be 100% devoted to eliminating the tea party.
It is a bit ignorant to blame this all on one group imo. The United States has been on this downward spiral way before the Tea Party and will continue if we do not fix out mess even without the tea party. Just my .02
The fact remains that they were responsible for the "Grand Compromise" not going through. That led to the panicked deadline and left us where we're at now. The market would have continued up-and-down but now it's spooked (being something based on mass psychology).
Nevermind the fact that combined they have an IQ of a potato.
Potato indeed.