Fox New is anti high-taxes and so are people, so what!
So what? When the tea parties were first organized (in 2008 during W) people were a lot more saner at those. When Faux News and the far right hijacked them in early 2009 the sanity level of the average protestor bombed. These "Tea Parties" were protests against high taxes, not as a podium for Rick Perry to call for secession and instill very high levels of polarization and an "Us and Them" mentality at a time when polarization is tearing this nation apart.
Warning, Moderate Hero response about to follow:
Do I believe Democrats are overreacting? Yes. However, I also believe that the GOP has been turning towards extreme attention whore tactics too. This is why people like me are never going to embrace the two-party system: Because it instills levels of fear, hate, and anger between people who would otherwise have no ill feelings toward each other.