"We weren't who you all said we were," Scott said.
He prefers to call it the class of "small-business owners" or those who wanted to "stop the growth of the federal government." Despite all those yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags and anti-Obama health law rallies, Scott said the new Republican lawmakers wanted to work with the president, if only Obama would have engaged them. "We didn't come to take over the country," he said.
Yet change Washington they did, with a hard-charging, often unruly governing style that bucked convention, toppled GOP leaders and in many ways set the stage for the rise of Donald Trump.
By some measures, the tea party Republicans have been successful. The "Pledge to America," a 21-page manifesto drafted by House Republican leadership, outlined the promises. Among them: "stop out of control spending," ''reform Congress" and "end economic uncertainty."
They forced Congress into making drastic spending cuts, in part by threatening to default on the nation's debt, turning a once-routine vote to raise the U.S. borrowing limit into a cudgel during the annual budget fights."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-era-tea-party-class-house-republicans-fades-121800857--politics.html
He prefers to call it the class of "small-business owners" or those who wanted to "stop the growth of the federal government." Despite all those yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags and anti-Obama health law rallies, Scott said the new Republican lawmakers wanted to work with the president, if only Obama would have engaged them. "We didn't come to take over the country," he said.
Yet change Washington they did, with a hard-charging, often unruly governing style that bucked convention, toppled GOP leaders and in many ways set the stage for the rise of Donald Trump.
By some measures, the tea party Republicans have been successful. The "Pledge to America," a 21-page manifesto drafted by House Republican leadership, outlined the promises. Among them: "stop out of control spending," ''reform Congress" and "end economic uncertainty."
They forced Congress into making drastic spending cuts, in part by threatening to default on the nation's debt, turning a once-routine vote to raise the U.S. borrowing limit into a cudgel during the annual budget fights."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-era-tea-party-class-house-republicans-fades-121800857--politics.html