John Boehner’s Original Tea Party Recipe

Ka Leo O Hawaiʻi
May 16, 2011

The 2010 midterm elections saw Republicans ride the Tea Party wave to re-capture the United States House of Representatives. But establishment Republicans soon found it difficult to control the monster they helped create by nurturing the disruptive, upstart wing movement and giving it space within the GOP.

Originally published in Ka Leo O Hawaiʻi, this cartoon is the recipient of a 2011 Associated Collegiate Press award and a 2012 Hawaiʻi Publisher's Association award, or “Paʻi.”