Will GOP Congressional Freshman Be Short Timers?

I've noted before that the Republican Party has created two Frankenstein monsters that plague the party and which may well be it eventual undoing: the Christianist faction and the so-called Tea Party. Neither of these factions deal in facts and an objective reality and sooner or later the short term advantages of embracing these poisonous groups will likely have a very real negative consequence. In the short term, as an article in the New Times notes, the current class of GOP freshman in the House of Representatives may be unseated - often by someone even more untethered from reality than the current crop of GOP loons. But for the danger the trend bodes for the country in the short term, there would almost be some perverse pleasure to be had in watching the self-demolition play out. Here are some article highlights:
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WASHINGTON — Just when freshman House Republicans have finally learned their way to the Cannon Caucus Room, how to vote on a motion to proceed and which commissary serves the best tuna sandwiches, someone back home — worse, someone from their own party — wants to take it all away.
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It is miles to go before the 2012 Congressional races begin in earnest, but already some of the 87 freshmen who helped the Republicans win back the House last year are bracing for a challenge from within the party. At least half a dozen potential primary challengers to freshmen are considering a run, and there is heated chatter about more.
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In some ways, the freshmen are responsible for their own predicament. Many won their seats after successfully challenging establishment Republicans in primaries . . . . Now, to some of the impatient and ideological voters who sent them to Washington to change things, the new House members may be seen as the establishment, and they face the disconcerting prospect of immediately defending themselves in the political marketplace.
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[G]roups aligned with the Tea Party movement, which helped push many new-to-politics candidates into House seats, are disenchanted with some of their new hires and are pondering if they can raise the money, and the firepower, to find someone to take them on. “I do think it is going to be more competitive,” said Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots. “With the freshmen who claim to be Tea Party or claim to support the ideas of the Tea Party movement but haven’t kept their promise, I think it will be tough for them.”