Why Are Corporate Groups Funding the Tea Party?

by Shamus Cooke
Global Research, April 15, 2010

Rank and file Tea Partiers are, politically speaking, lost at sea in the dead of night, looking for the light of common principles. On land, those manning right-wing lighthouses are broadcasting ideas loaded with hidden motives into this ocean of conservative public opinion. What the Tea Party will become is presently unknown; but those with an agenda will do their best to steer lost boats at sea in their direction, with potentially dangerous consequences.

Only recently have some tea party groups spotted land, organizing themselves under the new body National Tea Party Federation. One would expect such an organization to release a detailed statement about its members’ shared political positions, beliefs, goals, etc.

Instead, only three unifying concepts were announced: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets — all vague terms overused by any corporate Republican. It seems, then, that there is still much work to be done in organizing and channeling the national Tea Party “movement.”

Because the three unifying ideas are so vague, special interests will fill in the blanks when needed. For example, does a “constitutionally limited government” allow the economy to be dominated by giant corporations? Does “fiscal responsibility” mean that the U.S. should spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually on foreign wars? Does “free markets” mean that Wall Street should be allowed to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants? The answers to these questions, according to the National Tea Party Federation, will all be YES!

link - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18677

The Cons, represented here by Corporate Groups, and The Conned, represented here by Teabaggers.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/government/street-execs-pols-earful-financial-reform/

Does that just turn your stomach? You just know if those idiots get back in we'll end up in a depression.

They enable the Democrats to get away with right wing policies.

They enable the GOP to scapegoat "socialists" or "liberals" for all the harmful GOP policies.

The Right lost a lot of ground in the last election so they're making a lot of noise in trying to create a repeat of the 1994 midterms.

Tell 'em what to say and they'll scream it!

Right now, they're being reprogrammed from being anti-health care to being anti-climate change. Note that prominent global warming denier Lord Monckton was a featured speaker at yesterday's Tea Party in DC. And the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity is right at the center of the Tea Party movement.

And if defeating climate change legislation gets old -- well, there's always union-busting. The Employee Free Choice Act has been shelved for now, largely thanks to the Chamber of Commerce. But just preventing union organizing isn't good enough for these folks, they want to take down the unions that already exist. So you can expect next year's Tea Parties to be going on about how unions make American business less competitive and drive jobs overseas.

And there will be something else the year after that. Big business has a wish list of long standing, and the Tea Parties will always obediently parrot whatever line they're fed.