After considerable confusion, the final list of those participating in the Congressional "Tea Party Caucus" was unveiled late yesterday by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Forty folks signed up--37 white men, and 3 white women. Half are from the Old Confederacy.
The list includes Dan Burton, who once entertained party guests by firing a pistol shot into a pumpkin in order to express his doubts that Vince Foster committed suicide. It includes Joe Barton, who recently apologized to British Petroleum, and Joe Wilson, who hollered "You lie!" at President Obama.
One notes also that Todd Tiarht (R-KS) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) both joined up. They're running against each other for the GOP Senate nomination in Kansas, and both are falling all over themselves to declare themselves "the most right-wingiest of them all."
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