Actually, that's exactly what they expect...

Apparently convinced they, and they alone, are the voice of all Americans, Tea Party voters are angry at DC pols on both sides for failing to hew to their express desires. They're pissed off about all that stuff that got passed in the lame duck session and the stuff that didn't, like permanent elimination of the estate tax.

Of course, that's no surprise. But quote of the day comes from Mike Lee, senator-elect from Utah, who, with Tea Party support, ousted long term incumbent Republican Robert F. Bennett. He had this to say about meeting their expectations.

“This changes by degrees,” Mr. Lee said. “As long as you have a Democratic president and a Democratic-controlled Senate, I don’t think there are many people who are expecting that the government’s going to be transformed overnight into something in the image of the Tea Party. That would be delusional.”

Yes it would be, but unfortunately for Mr. Lee, that's exactly what the Tea Party faithful expect. We're talking about people who shut down the servers, in their haste to give money to the "poor" CoC because Glenn Beck told them they should do it. And Lee used Democratic instead of the usual, juvenile pseudo-slur Democrat in his remarks? I like him for doing that but I'm never going to vote for him. Thinking one term Senator...