From the schadenfreude department, the sequel

Special Report: A Long Island tax cut backfires on the Tea Party

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/27/us-taxes-nassau-teaparty-idUSTRE70Q…

“‘A lot of people who got elected on this type of anti-tax platform
are running into the brick wall of fiscal reality,’ said Matthew
Gardner, executive director of the non-partisan Institute on Taxation
and Economic Policy in Washington.”