Jim Hightower: Sorry Tea Partiers -- The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters.....

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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 |


Early this month, when John Boehner was sworn in as the new speaker of the House of Representatives, he tipped his hat to the teabag activists across the country who had fueled the Republican takeover of the chamber last fall. He almost choked up as he promised to "give the government back to the American people."

Boehner was not choking back tears, however, he literally was choking on the flagrant hypocrisy of his words. You see, the people he's giving the government back to are not tea partiers, but the rapacious corporate lobbyists who ran the Congress during the years when former Majority Leader Tom DeLay ran the show. Apparently, the name "Boehner" is derived from an ancient Teutonic word meaning: business as usual.

Throughout his two decades in Congress, the new speaker has been a reliable ally of corporate interests. In recent years, he has formed unusually tight legislative, political and even social ties with a group of lobbyists for such giants as Citigroup, Coors, Goldman Sachs, Google and R.J. Reynolds.

Of course, most congressional leaders work with lobbyists, so that's not odd, but to have them also be his closest friends and social chums -- well, you just want to say, "For heaven's sake, Johnnie, get a life!" ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149585/sorry_tea_partiers_--_the_gop_only_cares_about_their_corporate_paymasters_and_wealthy_elites_like_the_kochs/

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1. K&R...n/t

[Tippy]

2. At the time I was saying the same thing....

"Boehner was not choking back tears, however, he literally was choking on the flagrant hypocrisy of his words."

Republicans played the tea pary....I wonder what they will say, when they finally realise they were used.....

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4. That's the sad part

They don't realize they were used and even if they were told, they still won't believe it.

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3. We've all been screwed by corporatists in both parties.