Rand Paul’s big Senate test: Can tea party compromise?

Quoted: “There?s a huge question of what governing looks like if tea party folks get elected to the Senate, where each individual can tie the Senate into knots by themselves,” Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, told the Monitor before Election Day. “It?s hard to see how Congress adopts a governing program that would satisfy most of the people in the tea party movement.”