" In July Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) got the go-ahead from the House leadership to form a Tea Party Caucus. Twenty-eight Republicans joined the group. In November's midterm elections, voters elected Kentucky's Rand Paul and Florida's Marco Rubio to the Senate. Exit polls on election day indicated that four out of ten voters have a favorable opinion of the party."

Four out of ten is obviously 40%, about the same as Obama's approval rating, which will be dropping like a rock if he shuts down the Federal government over his demand for huge tax increases, rather than the needed control of proflagate spending.