So if I prove that some member of the tea party has broken the law...then what? I am not a supporter of either movement... I think both are extremist viewpoints. The difference, in my mind, is that the republican party is bending over backwards frontwards and sideways to keep from being primaried by tea party candidates (what would appear to be the downside of gerrymandering). It's the reason I can no longer register as a republican, it's the reason I now have to second guess voting for representatives with R after their name. I had voted primarily republican for 8 years, now the party starts taking it's marching orders from extremists? Please... I'd love to have my party back, but it's been hijacked by racist, homophobic, zealots who oppose all government. Until the republicans grow their testicles back and stand up to these assholes, I'm gonna have to be a lot more careful about voting republican. There is no OWS movement corrupting the democratic party. There are no OWS candidates, no OWS darlings, no OWS primaries, no OWS rebuttal to the democrat rebuttal of the state of the union... the democratic party may be sympathetic to some of the causes that OWS is protesting, but they don't have to fear OWS hijacking the system and shutting down the government. John Boehner gets some credit from me as of late, he did show some backbone against tea party bitching about the new budget deal...