Bruce Bartlett: "Republican caucus is either stupid, crazy, ignorant or craven cowards...afraid of the tea party people."

Former Reagan policy advisor and Bush I deputy assistant Treasury secretary Bruce Bartlett was rather specific about the mindless zombie mob known as the tea party.

Bartlett: "The Republicans keep saying that the tax cuts are the key to prosperity. Well the 2000's is evidence that that's not true." 

Bartlett: "I think a good chunk of the Republican caucus is either stupid, crazy, ignorant or craven cowards, who are desperately afraid of the tea party people, and rightly so."

I don't know, but it's kinda hard to tell what Bartlett was really thinking. And to think, he's a conservative...oh, I'm sorry, a RHINO.

Bartlett: "And don't forget that Ronald Reagan raised the capital gains tax rate to 28 percent in 1986."

Matthews: "I feel like sanity just walked in the door here."

Motley Cow also chimed in on this wonderful, and powerful statement by Bartlett.