Why should Murdoch's Tea Party hold USA citizens hostage

If the Republican's Tea Party wing are the only holdouts from a logical debt ceiling compromise, why is this Fox / Murdoch creation allowed to hold Americans hostage when they represent a small minority?

Do they even understand they are carrying the ball for the mega-rich and the corporate monoliths?

Michele Bachmann offers "a fewggestions" to help USA

I didn't really think someone could be more annoying and bitter than Sarah Palin, yet Michele Bachmann is Palin on bad speed. This gal's eyes never left the teleprompter as she blazed through a litany of fear and complaints (coining the new word "fewggestions" in a Forrest Gump moment of comedic inspiration), tag-teaming with Ryan's high road to try and hold the gutter for the Republicans.

God help America...