The special interest “caucuses” on Capitol Hill are one of DC’s particularly insidery and cocooned phenomenon, so there’s no small irony in Rep. Michele Bachmann taking the supposedly grassroots, spontaneous, and defiantly outsidery tea party movement and creating a Tea Party caucus.

David Kurtz

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