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

[pampango]

http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/10/what_will_tea_p.htm

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 Part 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 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.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

1. They will do what Fox News tells them to do...........

.... they are more than free to change their mind and arguments.

What? You expect consistency?

[crim son]

2. The same thing we do when our Politicians betray us.

Bitch, moan, and continue to back them anyway.

[crim son]

3. dupe, delete.

[BeFree]

4. Already betrayed

And what did they do? Blamed Obama.

Gawd, they are idiots.

[mstinamotorcity]

5. The question will be-

What will they do when they come out of their teabag induced coma??? There will be some people so mad I don't know what will happen. It won't be lon either. Eventually they will see what we see. Then we will have trouble. Some of those God-fearing,self appointed,womb policing,social security privatizing,oil spilling,mine hazard workers,will see that nothing has changed and only gotten worse. They truly have a love of country and will not hesitate to express their disdain.

[BlueDemKev]

6. Leave the country, I hope.

They can move to Antartica, set up their own new country with no government, no pesky regulations, nothing. It can be every man for himself (or in Sharron Angle's case, every thing for itself).

[BlueIdaho]

7. These Dumbshits

Will swallow anything as long as you wrap it in a flag and hang it from a cross.

[arcane1]

8. They will never know it happened...

unless someone tells them. Who's going to do that? Hannity??

[livetohike]

9. I was just about to post the same thing, except use Beck

:toast:

[gratuitous]

12. Winner

They won't remember a thing, because as soon as the actions shift away from the rhetoric, the rhetoric will shift to match the actions, and the Tea Baggers (not known for deep thought or reflection by even their most ardent exploiters) will simply march off in a new direction, oblivious to any change at all.

[AnArmyVeteran]

10. They will find candidates who can out-freak the freaks they're supporting now.

It's one big circus in the right wing complete with clowns, infantile acts and sideshows full of freakish misfits.

[madinmaryland]

11. Blame Obama and the Democratic Party. That is what Limbaugh, Beck,

O'Reilly and Fox Noise will tell them.

[ibegurpard]

13. nothing, they're too fucking stupid and will believe whatever they're told

like a lot of people in this country...on EITHER side of the political spectrum

[Motown_Johnny]

14. it will take them 40 years to figure it out, these people ain't quick ya know