So this is the Tea Party's endgame. No government | Michael Tomasky

In 1995 Clinton and Gingrich were always going to deal. But these economic fundamentalists don't want compromise

When Tea Party candidates were elected in a raft of seats across the United States in the midterm elections last November, we wondered what the fallout would be. Now we're finding out.

At the state level, most notably in Wisconsin but in other states too, conservative governors are using the financial crisis – created by Wall Street bankers and the deregulation-mad politicians who serve them – to give the bankers even more power, in effect, by trying to crush the strongest countervailing force against them in our political system – unions.

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