Change is in the tea leaves

Salon’s Steve Kornacki discusses the effects of the Tea Party on the GOP. It’s written in light of Se. Lugar’s primary defeat:

“Bipartisanship,” Mourdock declared last week, “ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”

This is as concise a distillation of the Tea Party’s governing vision as you’ll find. It’s not really about moving the GOP to the right; the party is already there, and has been for a while. It’s about reflexively opposing the other party on every issue, resisting compromise at all costs, and exploiting every available legislative tool to stymie the other side. This mindset is already pervasive in the House, and as the Times story shows, it’s now making its way into the Senate.

Kornicki sees the change as moving toward a parliamentary style.