Tea Partiers Protect Wall Street - By Bill Moyers

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Tea Partiers Protect Wall Street

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
April 17, 2010

Editor’s Note: The Tea Party movement purports to fight alongside average Americans against the depredations of the evil federal government, but the reality is quite different: the Tea Partiers, in league with the likes of lobbyist Dick Armey, are actually protecting Big Corporations – the greedy banks, soulless health insurance firms and reckless mine owners – from effective regulation.

The truth is this: only an energized and democratized federal government can check the unbridled power of Big Corporations as they seek to dominate every aspect of American life. As Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note in this guest essay, the Tea Partiers have their backs to these corporate plunderers and their muskets aimed at the government which might get in the way:

With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't so single-minded about just who's responsible for all their troubles, real and imagined.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/041710a.html