The Tea Party: Corporate Carpetbaggers

Don't get taken in by "The Tea Party".

Building on the failure of President Obama to use the White House "bully pulpit" to outline a clear and concise message regarding government regulation of the financial and health care sectors of the economy, corporate opportunists posing as populists filled that message void.

Dick Armey, former Texas congressman, is the lead culprit, though certainly not alone.  His "FreedomWorks" organization can deny "astro-turfing" the Tea Party movement all it wants...but its fingerprints are everywhere.

Tea Partiers will argue that they are fighting "big government" and socialism...and defending capitalism and democracy.

The problem is, aside from "No" to Obama and "No" to Health Care Reform (which would benefit more "Red" than "Blue" states...and takes most of its points from the 1993 Republican health care reform bill, including individual mandates)...the Tea Partiers have no ideas.  The status quo would be the result.

That's fine with Corporate America...the status quo has resulted in huge profits for Wall Street, at the expense of Main Street.  Corporate America LOVES the status quo...and is willing to use the confusion from complex health care and financial sector reform legislation to create the fear and anger that can override a more rational response.

What the Tea Partiers forget is Wall Street reports to its stockholders, not to this country's citizens.  Obama is trying to use government, which is controlled by "The People," to protect this country from Corporations...which just see people as another means of production...or exploitation.

Clear and concise messages win converts.  Obama blew it with  Health Care Reform...and the simple "No" of the Tea Party is the result.

The Tea Party "No" is "Yes" to Corportate America....and "No" to Our Democracy.