What we have seen gathering in small and relatively huge crowds across the nation are defeated and angry Republican malcontents desperately recasting themselves as Tea Party for no other reason than to surreptiously revive their damaged and discredited "Republican" brand. These are the same nasty, vitriolic Palin/McCain followers who during the campaign threatened to kill the then presidential candidate Barack Obama, as they routinely and vituperatively spewed racial epithets at any black people within their sight. This took place in every Sarah Palin rally. Now this crowd is masquerading as the new people's movement pretentiously animated by their professed aversion to big government spending. Where were they for the last 8 years when President George Bush's  tax cuts for the rich went through the roof while working families were left hanging out to dry, and leaving the biggest national debt and deficit ever known to mankind.The American people are watching this development with great interest as the Republican Party is now trying to resuscitate itself even as their rejected policies remain in place. For the two terms of Bush the government and its spending has expanded to proportions unseen since the inception of the Republic. The same Republican big government  encroached upon individual rights and tore them apart piece by piece in the name of national security, even as they consistantly compromize the nation's security on an international level. Hardly has three months elapsed since their crushing defeat, but they want their power back. After 12 years in charge of Congress and 8 years in the White House. As much as they hate government, they need it to amass wealth for their constituencies in huge tax cut give-aways, and legislate morality as they autocratically intrude in bedrooms of their fellow Americans. The Tea Party is going nowhere because they are nothing but the Republican Party they are pretending not to be.