This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, November 5th, 2010.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Now that the Tea Party Movement has translated its passions into electoral success,

what's next for a new GOP majority in the U.S. House,

and what will keep the coalition from fracturing?

David Boas, Executive Vice President for the Cato Institute, says keeping that coalition together

means focusing like a

laser on fiscal issues. A whole lot of Tea Party candidates have won which

moves Republicans into control of the House but the people who move up are the people who've already

been in the House as Republicans, so people like John Boehner are moved up and given a better platform by this insurgent group of candidates.

Should we expect anything better than the pledge that, the sort of inemic pledge that was issued by Republicans?

Well we can hope that Republicans learned a lesson from the last three elections.

They learned in 2006 and 2008 that if you don't cut

spending and you waste your time on social issues that the voters will turn you out of

office and then they learned in 2000 that the voters will turn you out of office.

And then they learned in 2010 that if you focus on the economy and you have a big government

president pressing taking over the economy and you fight it then the

voters will turn to you. Hopefully they'll keep that up. It's also not entirely

certain that somebody like John Boehner becomes speaker. Somebody could

step up and challenge him, but you're right. It doesn't look like anybody's planning to

do that. The Tea Party movement, the glue that binds them has been spending and debt.

But once you have some power, it seems like a lot of other interests

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