Tea Party hates the American way of life, our partner countries, gays, and safe edible food. Just what the founding fathers intended?

Nothing makes clearer the true intentions of the more extreme elements of the Republican Party, the tea party movement, than this piece from the NY Times:

NY Times: Tea Party politicians … are already taking issue with Republicans for failing to hold the line against the flurry of legislation enacted in the waning weeks of Democratic control of the House of Representatives … Democrats succeeded in passing legislation that Tea Party leaders opposed, including a bill to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center attacks, an arms-control treaty with Russia, a food safety bill and a repeal of the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military.

“Do I think that they’ve (Democrats) recognized what happened on Election Day? I would say decisively no,” said Mark Meckler, a co-founder of Tea Party.

One of my favorite new rules demanded by the tea party extremists is justifying new laws by citing the Constitution. Perhaps they’re unaware of the debate, since before the inception of the this country, over the ideological interpretations of the Constitutional language written by our founding fathers:

Still, the Tea Party could point to some impact already … Representative John A. Boehner has proposed new procedural rules … House members will not be able to introduce a bill or a joint resolution without “a statement citing as specifically as practicable the power or powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact it” … This was a leading demand of the Contract From America, a Tea Party manifesto.

Will House members have to take their bills to the Supreme Court for their blessing? Insane stuff, much like the tea party hypocrisy over a balance budget and deficit bloating tax cuts:

Tea Party leaders scoffed at the Republicans’ greatest victory from the lame-duck session — the extension of the … Tea Party leaders complained that Republicans had abandoned a push for a full repeal of the estate tax.

Americans should be able to hit the "inheritance jackpot" and pay no taxes on money they didn’t earn. It’s the "legacy lottery" winner they’re fighting for. Even more bizarre is the following statement about exploding the deficit with tax cuts for the already filthy rich:

Mike Lee, a senator-elect from Utah who had Tea Party support said he believed that the vote to extend the Bush tax cuts signaled that Congress had heard the demands of the Tea Party in the midterm elections.

The rich can keep their wealth and not pay back to a society that provided the means to their success? What a message.