Quaint politics

Rico says there are numerous columns and letters in the current issue of The Cowboy Chronicle, the SASS paper, about the misnomered Tea Party. One might be, if one were (as Rico certainly is) of a punning sort, to say it's a 'tempest in a tea(party)pot', but Rico won't...
If the Tea Party were, as Rico originally thought, a truly independent political movement, it would be interesting. As it is merely the fascist wing of the Republican Party, it's (alas) not...