The Tea Party cannot be assimilated.

"The insurgent party may well drive the GOP so far to the right that it proves something of an albatross in November. "

The Tea Party does not exist to attack or hold back the Republican Party.

" The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government spending and taxation. Our mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionall y Limited Government and Free Markets."

Seems more like an albatross for progressives.

The tea partiers have every right to be angry. We're all angry. Their problem is that they don't see the problems in the context of the last 10 years. They're acting as if this just all happened under Obama's watch. They don't even realize that the stimulus has lowered their taxes.
Then you have the republicans (that voted for the biggest deficit in history) saying "Hey, what idiots caused this big mess !" -as if they didn't know !

With all sincerity and with somber regard I fervently hope that the Republican Party goes all out partnering with and coopting the Teabaggers. Let their identities fuse, please. Then the rest of us can sit back and watch a dead albatros dance for our amusement. The combination of know nothings with the do nothings, bloviators and liars, dead heads and greed mongers, should make for a very interesting spectacle.
Sooner or later someone, some party, some source of nascent intelligence, is going to come forth with some intriguing ideas, clarity of vision, a knack of clarifying the obvious in ways that even maybe Teabaggers might understand, and finally, at last, raise the bar to something resembling meaningful public discourse.
At what point, in the meanwhile, is the public going to wake up and realize that the sum of the spectacle we all face is subterfuge, misdirection and hog wash that by it's very nature obscures and befuddles. When will we realize we've been had and revolt?