They didn't win every seat!

We keep hearing over and over about how the "American People" (as if it were all 300 million of us) made their voices clear in the 2010 elections and that gives the Tea Party the right to make such ridiculous demands.

435 House seats were decided in those elections as was control of the U.S. Senate. The Republicans did not win every seat in the House ... the Democrats won 193 of those seats and retained a majority in the Senate.

Sure the Republican party was granted a tremendous amount of 'influence' on Capitol Hill, but they were NOT given 'control' of the entire U.S. government. Their influence has won them a tremendous amount in these arguments as not only has the other side agreed to tie a debt ceiling vote to deficit reduction in the first place, but also to massive spending cuts and the exclusion of revenue increases.

When the Republicans convince the American people to elect them to a majority in both houses and regain the Presidency, they can attempt to exercise the 'control' they believe they deserve.

Even then, as Democrats learned early in 2009, the other members of Congress still have a vote. If they didn't we would now have single-payer health care and we would have had a much, much larger stimulus.

When the Republican party wins 435 House seats, 100 Senate seats and the Presidency, they will have the rights they think they have now. Until then, the rest of us still have a voice.