To answer your question...
The Tea Party. They're like a vast minority of Americans, and even a huge minority when it comes to Republicans. They're a disorganized group of wanna be Libertarians that have a fifth grader's view of American History...a C and under student understanding at that... that think they're these big Patriotic Anarchist heroes, but they're really a bunch of every nasty name you could think of. And especially, puppets of corporate nincompoops that have to cheat to squeeze out more profits that they could make ethically if they weren't a bunch of blind greedy spoiled rotten children of rich parents. In other words, the Tea Party that absolutely has no trust in the government trust those that want to turn the government to their will and bring back Industrial Age era business practices. Again, because CEO's are too freaking stupid and or gluttonous to make money without bribing the government (which costs money) or screwing workers (less people buying stuff AND boycotts, less money taken in).
So, everything is because a small fraction of the American People voted for a slight majority/not a majority but can still Filibuster amount of the worst politicians we've ever seen that the rest of the country can't do anything about. We lost the system of checks and balances, and now Congress has all the power. Remember how said Tea Party was whining its collective heads off about how Obama was going to be this horrible dictator? Well, turns out the very same politicians that these self righteous, selfish man-children elected have ALL the power, making the small majority in Congress the REAL dictators of this country. Way to keep up that Uhmurrrican spirit, band of people who are in no way complete idiots/stubborn old prospector wanna bes.
Cue noon who has no business being here otherwise to whine about that, quoting Fox News or some other fatso commentator verbatim, thus proving my point .