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"   Very interesting pair of statements from America&amp;#039;s leading Tea Partiers today, as picked up on by the eerily all-seeing Taegan Goddard. Sen. Jim DeMint hints that he&amp;#039;ll be seeking a leadership role after the elections; Senate candidate Rand Paul says he&amp;#039;d join DeMint and Tom Coburn and others, &amp;quot;if we get another loud voice in there,&amp;quot; to form a nucleus of senators who&amp;#039;re &amp;quot;unafraid to stand up.&amp;quot;  That &amp;quot;if&amp;quot; doesn&amp;#039;t need to be there: Coburn and DeMint will be re-elected, and Mike Lee of Utah will be elected. Paul himself is favored to. Other Tea Party candidates with decent shots are Sharron Angle of Nevada and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. In short, come January 2011, there will be a nucleus of at least three and as many as six Tea Party conservatives in the U.S. Senate. That&amp;#039;s not a huge number, but given the already polarized state of affairs in the Senate, it&amp;#039;s enough to change the gravity of the place. Whether the nucleus will draw the GOP caucus further right, or (or as a result) push the centrist Dems left, or split the GOP (almost certainly not) or create opportunities for odd cross-party budgetary alliances (actually foreseeable) \u2014 all that remains to be seen. But the formal announcement of the Tea Party nucleus is noteworthy in itself. I&amp;#039;ve never seen a Tea Party candidate describe how he or she actually plans to legislate. Now two Tea Party stars have made it plain for all to see. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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