I'm sorry but Carpenter bears some responsibility for the condition we find ourselves in and, unlike Tim, she has not acknowledged it. The Tea Party was organized and funded, not only by Republican operatives such as she, but also by dark money groups. For a detailed documentation of this see Jane Meyer's Dark Money. It was about scaling back government regulation and they used the backlash of a black President as an accelerant. Does Carpenter still believe that the Affordable Care Act was a huge mistake? Does she favor it's repeal?