Lugar defeated in primary

The Tea Party is dead - except of course in the dwindling Republican Party, where it flourishes without any limits.

It's one last pecan pie in the face for longtime Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana. In a stunning upset, Lugar just lost the Republican primary today to the teagaggin' Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

What's uproarious about this is that Lugar would have had a safe seat in the general election. Now the Democrats are probably going to wrest yet another important Senate seat away from the GOP - all because the Tea Party didn't know when to cool their choppers.