Sorry Tea Partiers--The GOP Only Cares About Their Corp Paymasters & Wealthy Elites (Jim Hightower)

[kpete]

AlterNet / By Jim Hightower
Sorry Tea Partiers --
The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters and Wealthy Elites Like the Kochs

While tea party regulars are giddy with the thought that their movement took over the U. S. House, they were actually a Trojan horse for powerful corporate interests.
January 20, 2011 |


........ They delivered the votes to make Boehner speaker, which allowed the corporate powers to move inside, quietly take over and return Congress to business as usual.

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In fact, some of the most powerful lawmakers in the House are simply handing their power to corporate interests. For example, Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the new chairman of the Wall Street oversight committee, declared that his role is to "serve the banks."

The chief comforter of corporate crybabies, however, is Rep. Darrell Issa of California, chair of the wide-ranging government reform committee. He sent letters to 150 corporate interests, asking them to tell him if Obama and his Democratic meanies have imposed any consumer, worker or environmental protections that should be undone. That's like asking a barber if you need a haircut!

The letters unleashed an outpouring of corporate whining -- big banks, for example, wailed that their ability to gouge customers with rip-off debit-card fees had been curtailed. There, there, Issa said soothingly, I'm here now. I'll make it all better for you.

Under the guise of giving government back to the people, the House majority is giving it to the corporate powers who finance their campaigns. This is not just business as usual, it's business way more than usual.

more:
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149585/sorry_tea_partiers_--_the_gop_only_cares_about_their_corporate_paymasters_and_wealthy_elites_like_the_kochs/

[Ernesto]

1. BINGO! nt

[JuniperLea]

2. Ha! I was just posting the question earlier...

How does it feel to be used, 'Baggers? I toss my used Tea Bags... apparently so does the GOP!

[jwirr]

3. Wonder what it is going to take to make them see it?

[MindPilot]

4. They never will.

If something bad happens, it's the fault of the libruls, George Soros, ACORN, unions, and overpaid government employees. (All of whom of course deserve to be shot.)

If anything good happens, it was due to the incredibly forward-thinking policies of Reagan, or Bush's steely resolve.

Facts do not and will not ever change anything.