What will tea party members do when their politicians betray them?

[Joanne98]

Tea Party members hate Wall Street bailouts, trade deals like NAFTA, job outsourcing, giant corporations buying laws, government spending, and elites telling the rest of us what to do. But there is no question that their candidates — many of them wealthy corporatists themselves — are funded by big corporations (even foreign oil companies) and Wall Street. So the question is, once in Congress will they vote with their base or their owners? And when they vote with the people who bought them, what will Tea Party members do about it?
Trade
Tea Party members want to be able to buy things that are “Made In America” in stores again. I have yet to meet a Tea Party supporter who doesn’t absolutely hate NAFTA, WTO and other one-sided “free trade” agreements. They say these treaties “violate our sovereignty.” But Tea Party candidates are funded by groups like the Chamber of Commerce and others who are the drivers of these “free trade” policies that close American factories and send jobs out of the country. This does not bode well for these candidates voting the way Tea Party members expect them to if they are elected.
Outsourcing
Tea Party members are astonished when they learn that the government gives companies tax breaks that encourage companies to send jobs away. But just a month ago a bill to do something about this was filibustered in the Senate by a unanimous Republican caucus. One thing about Tea Party candidates — they’re also unanimously Republicans. Does anyone other than Tea Party members really think the Tea Party candidates are going to go against the now-unanimous Republican support for these outsourcing incentives if elected? Tea Party candidate Scott Brown didn’t after he was elected.
Bailouts
If there is one thing that unites all Tea Party members, it is hatred of the Bush Bank Bailouts (except they think these passed under Obama). But this is an area where their leaders will almost certainly stand with the banks, because that’s where the money is — their campaign money to be precise. The other day I wrote about how in Oregon one Wall Street hedge fund manager is spending up to $1 million (pocket change) on a front group to elect a Tea Party candidate and unseat a congressman who sponsored a couple of Wall Street reform bills.

http://landofthenotsofree.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-will-tea-party-members-do-when.html

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. Blame it on the Liberals. n/t

[matt819]

2. Their heads will explode.

Or they'll believe the exact opposite of what is happening and get on with their lives. After all, they definitely live in an alternate universe.

[Riley18]

3. Blame the Deomcratic party.

[SoCalNative]

4. Find more crazy loons

to run against them in 2012

[polichick]

5. Second amendment remedies, of course. nt

[arcane1]

6. First, they have to find out about it.

I doubt Fox will tell them.

[Grassy Knoll]

17. Ladies and gentleman........

We Have A Winner !!!

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. Look, they're Republicans...

...they worship the wealthy, like regular Republicans.

They love blowing up shit, and the toys to do it with, cost be damned, like regular Republicans.

Their problem with big government would vanish overnight, so long as government was stretched out of all Constitutional recognition to benefit them, or punish black people, or hopefully both, and cost be damned.

If limiting civil liberties could be done in a way that only affected liberals, they'd lead the charge.

It's branding. Pure branding. Marketing. In the only country in the world where marketing is an academic discipline, with actual professors, like humane letters, or the law, or medicine, or the sciences.

There is no movement, there is only a 'New! Improved! Now Zero Transfats!" label on the same old shit.

[Andy823]

8. Good question

I think the big problem with the tea party crowd is they listen to the likes of Beck, Limbuagh and the other morons on Fox news. They ONLY get their information from these clowns and have believed it when they are told it's all the "LIBERALS" fault! Now when they come to their senses, at least some of them will, it isn't going to be pretty! They will realize they have been duped by the right, and those who are in congress who are "real" tea party members, not those who simply jumped on the tea party wagon to get elected, the internal wars within the republican party will get even worse! Those who actually voted for some of the "fake" tea party candidates will be angry as hell, and maybe they will start turning on the republicans, at least we can hope so! When this happens I think democrats can capitalize on it "IFF" they can show the country they are for the people, for getting them back to work, for putting regulations on corporations and taxes to prevent them for more outsourcing, and can show them they have been "TRYING" but are being shut down by republicans, which is going to be pretty obvious now that they have control of the house!

[LaurenG]

9. Well lots of exploding heads then they'll start talk of armed insurrection

and then they'll all join the republicans again to try and hurt anything not like them.

[glinda]

10. following along their irrational thinking they will attack liberals.

[eleny]

11. They'll have a bevy of apologists convince them to hang in there and keep the faith

Meantime, the back room puppet masters will be busy figuring out how to blame it on the left/Dems.

[jwirr]

12. Get what they deserve.

[digitaln3rd]

13. I dunno..

Ask Scott Brown.

[ellenfl]

14. i think we need to be sure they know when repubs betray them

even if it just means writing lttes. i know local teabaggers read our paper because i have had to read some of their gibberish. we also have blogs and article comment sections in our online paper.

also, i would like to bring to their attention every bit of repub pork in repub bills, going forward. does anyone know if there is a website that exposes this?

ellen fl

[thelordofhell]

15. Whatever Glenn Beck tells them to do

:nopity:

[Demeter]

16. Whatever Their "Leaders" Tell Them to Do==Faith-Based Politics

proving you CAN fool some of the people ALL of the time...

[RZM]

18. It'll be tricky for them

Probably they will lose some steam, especially if Obama wins in 2012 (they might even lose some before that). Some will stick around, but a long time from now, people might look back at 2009-12 as their high point. I wouldn't bet on the Tea Party being a long term force. But I'm frequently wrong too :)

[BrklynLiberal]

19. Whine and cry. Bitch and moan. Blame the Dems

[femrap]

20. Glenn Beck will tell them

that Jesus didn't mean to overturn the tables of the moneychangers....Wall Street is good and one of us.

[1776Forever]

21. They will stop voting and join a militia group - mark my words! n/t

[babsbunny]

22. You didn't get the memo?

It was all a trick! Teabaggers = Republicans.

[CoffeeCat]

23. Tea comeuppance is coming!

The corporatists and elitists used the tea partiers to get Republican
votes.

Now that Republicans have the House, we will see most of these newly
elected politicians kow tow to the corporations, while the tea partiers
cry in their tea cups.

They are in for SUCH a rude awakening.

Unfortunately, many tea partiers have been bamboozled into climbing
on board with the corporatist agenda. So maybe they won't be as upset
about certain things that these Fascists want to do.

[jimlup]

24. Denial is not just a river in eygpt

They won't get it. They are too stupid to register this new data. They will be suckered by the propaganda that the elites spoon feed them.