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The problem is that there is a large and significant intersection between the tea party movement and the republican party.
It is simply impossible to enact tax cuts without cutting spending on some pretty popular programs, and as such, there is a dilemma of how can one push for tax cuts without harming one's chances in major elections by proposing cuts in popular programs. That is where a lot of the red meat of these protests comes in. As they can't say "cut military spending, medicare, education and social security," they come up with these convenient scapegoats as targets of their collective frustrations. "it's the illegal immigrants," "it's the pork," "it's the welfare queens," "it's money for the damn foreigners," when none of these things, even when taken together, are enough to make up for the deficits...
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