A tea party debt limit rebellion? Hardly

For months now, the prevailing narrative of the debt ceiling debate has centered on how tea party freshmen forced the Republican Party into a hard-line position.

And that story, quite simply, it's wrong. Or at least, it's not quite so simple.

While the tea party and the larger GOP freshmen class have certainly forced the broader Republican Party to reevaluate its priorities and move toward a more fiscally conservative posture, the conservative opposition to a debt limit deal was never strictly rooted in either the tea party or newly-elected Republicans.

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Paul Kane 02 Aug, 2011

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