Hey Tea Party People. You've been had.

[TheBigotBasher]

Rand Paul was to be the hero of the Tea Party Republicans. Leader for The Tea Party in the Senate.

Tea-baggers jumped up and down and got all their white sheets in a twist. They did everything possible to secure a stomping victory.



Now once the votes are in and once the title is soon to be placed, Tea Party hero Rand Paul does a complete volte-face.

He wants his



As Think Progress reports

In a Wall Street Journal profile this weekend, Paul signaled an about-face on his earmark position, committing to “fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork.” After all, he’s “not that crazy” of a libertarian

Father and son, age 47, have different styles. Asked what he wanted to do in Washington in a Wednesday morning television interview, the senator-elect said that his kids were hoping to meet the Obama girls. He has made other concessions to the mainstream. He now avoids his dad’s talk of shuttering the Federal Reserve and abolishing the income tax. In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells me that they are a bad “symbol” of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it’s doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night. “I will advocate for Kentucky’s interests,” he says.

Oops. Fancy a cup of coffee instead?

Throw the bums out.

[crim son]

1. You're giving the teabags too much credit.

They didn't know what they stood for before the election and they are likely to be 100% flexible now that their candidate is in office. It was never about real values, it was about winning. I think many believed that their traditional rethug leadership couldn't do the job so they dumped them. Simple as that.

Also, let's be real: these people are too numb to actually know what Paul is doing with his new power. How would they know? That would require "reading" and "listening."

[baldguy]

2. If any of their number poke their head up & show a glimmer of sanity

They get targeted by the others and are pecked away into oblivion. That's what Scott Brown is learning.

[bluerum]

3. But that was obvious ftom day one. Wasn't it?

[TheBigotBasher]

4. To everyone else but them.

[RonReagan]

5. This changes nothing

They certainly have been had, but they will never realize it. When over 60% of the public doesn't know plain, simple facts like the religion of the president, do you really think any of them will realize the policy flipflop of a Kentucky senator?

[TheBigotBasher]

6. No as they will clearly change the definition of what is pork

in order to fit in with It's OK if a Republican does it.

[deacon]

7. Pork rind or pork rand? Didn't take long did it? n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. So he's a hypocritical butthead

Call me shocked. :sarcasm: