Party hacks need to taste the Tea or they're toast

Charles Hurt - Inside Washington

WASHINGTON -- No mat ter how many cups of tea get thrown in their faces, Republicans around here keep forgetting just how scalding hot it is.

It is like they still don't get what this whole Tea Party movement is about.

For weeks, Republicans in Washington have wrung their hands in earnest worry that the stupid voters of Delaware were on a scary lark -- flitting after a crazy woman to hand her the GOP nomination for Senate.

Christine O'Donnell's personal finances were lousy, they said. She talked about people hiding in her bushes.

More alarming, she once spoke publicly and passionately against a certain type of self-satisfaction -- which, here in the Capital of Self-Satisfaction, tends to make people nervous.

Making matters even worse, the only reason people were flocking to O'Donnell is because that even crazier Sarah Palin had anointed her.

And there is nothing Republicans find more terrifying than the untamable Sarah Palin romping around the country waving her wand and remaking their party.

Well, you know what? We know that O'Donnell and Palin and Joe Miller and Marco Rubio and all the rest of the Tea Partiers have plenty of warts among them.

You have done your devil best to make sure we saw them all. But their warts have largely made these folks more appealing because so often the trials and tribulations in their lives reflect those in ours.

There is one thing we know for certain about these untidy Republican Rebels. They are not the ones who have so colossally fouled things up in this country.

And their misdeeds in life, they have done to themselves.

The disaster created by the crowd currently in Washington has been done to innocent Americans everywhere and unborn generations to come.

churt@nypost.com