The Half-Life of the Tea Party

I still don't understand where people are getting this impression that the Tea Party will somehow become a legitimate third party. Maybe it is a hopeless litany from the Republicans thinking that if an extreme rightest party like the Tea Party will allow the Republicans to be hold the center of political affiliation (i.e. between the right and the left). In fact, I mostly hear this impression coming from conservatives. But one thing is for certain, how can a party that advocates the extreme limiting of governmental power, if not the abolishment of federal government altogether, can survive?

It's simple mathematics. If you keep cutting something in half, you slowly approach 0. This is understood in chemistry as half-life, and over time an element will slowly decay its atomic constitution, and the process of decay is asymptotic. If you have a sample of uranium, after so many years half the uranium will decay into lead. In the same amount of time another half will decay into lead, leaving only a quarter of uranium left. Then it decays in half again, and so forth.

So if the Tea Party in some miraculous act of God himself somehow gained power in Washington, they begin to limit the power of the federal government. If they manage to take away so much power, they might not even have the power to even take away anymore power from themselves. It's a bloody conundrum.

There is simply something seriously disturbing about the continuation party that wants to destroy government altogether and let the people run themselves. This sounds awfully familiar... ah, yes, it's called anarchy. Well, the whole deal will either end in anarchy or severe disappointment. I'm leaning towards the latter.

Oh, not mention that it's a group of pompous, arrogant, ignorant morons. How will they survive?