Tea Party Getting Played

Despite all the Tea-Party rhetoric against big, bad bailouts, the leading Tea Party candidates have had no problem accepting millions of dollars from Big Finance to further their electoral prospects. How long will it take grassroots Tea-Partiers to realize, as the writers on this page point out, that they are being used to advance a corporate agenda that uses government to serve Wall Street elites, not working-class Americans?


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Tea Party Betrayed On Spending Cuts

By Dave Johnson
January 6, 2011

The Tea Party membership is being set up for yet another huge betrayal by the DC Republican establishment. The members had very clear expectations that specific spending cuts would fix the government's budget problems. more »

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Tea Party Gets Played: Electeds Want Govt Health Care

By Dave Johnson
November 23, 2010

If there is one thing that Tea Party members hate, it's government health care. I guess that's why so many of them want the government to keep away from their Medicare. (You may have seen ad after ad last month blasting Democrats because Obamacare "cut Medicare." See some of the ads below.) more »

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Tea Party Betrayed: Earmarks

By Dave Johnson
November 9, 2010

I have been writing about the Tea Party, and asking what they will do if/when the DC Republicans betray them. CAF has set up a page for the Tea Party Getting Played series. This is the latest in the series. more »

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Tea Party Betrayed Already?

By Dave Johnson
November 5, 2010

I have been writing about the Tea Party, and asking what they will do if/when the DC Republicans betray them. CAF has set up a page for the Tea Party Getting Played series. more »

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Tea Party Test: Korea Free Trade Agreement

By Dave Johnson
November 4, 2010

The "Tea Party" will face many tests when the new Congress convenes next year. Everyone is asking, how long will it take before the Tea Party officeholders are co-opted by the big money insiders? "Free Trade" is one of those tests. more »

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Campaign Cash: Tea Party Vows To Block Campaign Finance Reform

By Zach Carter
November 4, 2010

Welcome to the final edition of Campaign Cash, which tracked political spending during this year's midterm elections. Stay tuned for more reporting on money in politics from members of The Media Consortium. more »

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Tea Party Members VS Tea Party Wall Street Funders

By Dave Johnson
October 31, 2010

The Tea Party hates the Federal Reserve. You hear it over and over:
Tea Partiers support audit of Federal Reserve.
Tea Party could challenge Federal Reserve. more »

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What Will Tea Party Members Do When Their Politicians Betray Them?

By Dave Johnson
October 26, 2010

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. more »

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Backdoor Bailout, Tea Party Fakeout: The GOP's Secret $90 Billion Gift to Wall Street

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
October 22, 2010

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GOP candidates are making a point of running against "bailouts" this year. Yet even as they rail about rescuing big banks, they're working on a plan that would slip those same banks an estimated $90 billion in taxpayer money ... and that's just in the first ten years.

"Fiscal conservatism," anyone?

It was always hypocritical to slam a bailout that they and their party initiated. But it turns out they were just warming up. Now they're trying to pull a fast one on the American public, tapping Tea Party rage about big government spending even as they prepare to slip the big bankers some big bucks. They're planning to siphon off $90 billion meant for America's college students and their families and give it to Wall Street.

Any Tea Partier who votes for these guys is being played for a sucker. more »

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Are Tea Party Members Getting Played?

By Dave Johnson
October 21, 2010

Are the Main Street Tea Party members getting "played" by Wall Street and big-corporate billionaires? There is a big, big, big difference between what the regular members and the big-money funders expect. more »

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