During the Friday broadcast of his ESPN radio show, Tony Kornheiser asked Huffington Post editor Howard Fineman if Tea Party congressmen are “like ISIS trying to establish a Caliphate” in the House of Representatives, reports News Busters.
Fineman: The House needs a dictatorial leader, or nothing will ever happen. And the Tea Party people understandably don’t like that. If the person in charge is a moderate who doesn’t agree with them politically. So, Paul Ryan has the kind of conservative chops, where, he can sort of try to unify the whole party. But, he’s going to be spending all his time trying to deal with these Tea Party. People. What he’s probably going to have to do, if in fact he gets in. Is stage some kind of fight with them and defeat them, or take away their power, and go after them. I don’t know if he’s got the guts to do that. I don’t know if he’s got the numbers to do it.
Kornheiser: Are they like ISIS trying to establish a Caliphate here?
Fineman: Yes, yes. That’s a very good analogy. Without the violence obviously, but yes, they are a rejectionist front.
You can listen to the entire interview over at ESPN. Fineman’s comments begin at approximately 36 minutes.