Tea Party Darling Kristi Noem Gives in to Obama and Fiscal Cliff

TEA Party--taxed enough already...

It didn't take Tea Party favorite Kristi Noem long before she forgot what those letters meant. She is one of 86 Republicans who decided to provide Obama with what Obama craves--more taxes.

Noem of course is the representative from South Dakota's sixth district who rode the Tea Party wave in 2010 to gain her seat in Congress. She is not a name you would expect on a bill pushed by Obama that would raise taxes. However, South Dakota Tea Party voters are waking to that reality today as Noem was a yes vote for the fiscal cliff deal.

Senator Rand Paul expressed his displeasure of the Senate's passage of the fiscal cliff deal a day earlier.

President Obama and Senate Republicans reached a sweeping deal late Monday that would let income taxes rise significantly for the first time in more than two decades, fulfilling Obama’s promise to raise taxes on the rich and averting the worst effects of the “fiscal cliff.”

“Not only are they raising taxes — maybe on a smaller percentage of people but a large amount of money — but they’re also going to spend more money,” Paul said. “So it’s a spending bill.”

The Tea Party needs to distance themselves from Noem and she needs to face a challenge in the Republican primary in 2012. She is not one of us.