The End of the Tea Party?

I'm pretty certain that the dems are not any threat to the Tea Party I think that the GOP is more of a threat to them I'll start with.

So, here it is just 24 hours since the "Shellacking" and already the Tea Party winners are saying that they are going to change the Republican party. I am wondering, are they all naive, or is this wishful thinking on their part? They are against bailouts, I get that, so how are they going to work with the new speaker, who got more campaing contributuions from Wall St, and those banks than any other member of the house?

Are they going to demand that the "Pledge to America" eliminates earmarks? Because now as it is written, it does not.

Finally do they really understand what they are facing in the steadfast GOP core? Did they read what Trentt Lott said about them??

Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), now a D.C. lobbyist, warned that a robust bloc of rabble-rousers spells further Senate dysfunction. "We don't need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples," Lott said in an interview. "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them."

But Lott said he's not expecting a tea-party sweep. "I still have faith in the visceral judgment of the American people," he said.

And this is Trentt Lott here, not a novice in politics! (Maybe he is right about the American people, after all Angle, O'Donnel, and Miller all went down in flames, and they were the most extreme) Firorna also lost and the GOP lost a seat in Colorado;

The question is this. Once they get to DC and see the corporations that lined up to donate to Republicans like the Speaker, are the Tea Party members going to stand up and turn up the heat, even when corporate interests are at stake? Or will they realize just how mcuh money they can be in line for and fall in line??