Republican Tea
by tristero
There are a lot of folks who think that the Tea Party is a genuine grassroots, populist movement not allied with the Republican party. I’ve never believed it. The latest example.
Adding: I’m not saying all Republicans are teabaggers and vice versa. I’m saying it’s become, if it wasn’t always, an initiative to energize that part of the base of the Republican party that is white and doesn’t run large corporations. Naturally, Republicans have other programs in place to attract bucks from large companies and these appear to have positions that contradict the Tea Party; eg, federal payouts to the too-big-to-fail with no strings attached. No doubt, Republicans are playing up the differences between these two parts of the base in order to shake as much money as they can from both.