Tea Party Purge

"Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can."
--Benjamin Martin (The Patriot)

House leader John Boehner appears to be purging fiscal conservatives from key finance committees. Many of these Republicans have strongly opposed Boehner's tendency to surrender ground on spending and debt increases--particularly during last summer's debt limit talks.

Given the current state of the party, I cannot imagine a dumber thing that the GOP could do. The party continues to position itself closer to the statist Democratic Party. But unless they fully merge into a One Party system (not out of the question), why would voters select Statist Lite when they can get Statist Full Strength?

The ideological divide between Big Govt Republicans and Tea Party types made it easy to predict this situation years back. It is becoming increasingly clear that the ideologies are incompatible.

Redistricting of this country's political landscape seems inevitable.