Given how much news coverage the
tea baggers receive it’s surprising that not many in the mainstream media noticed
that the Tea Bagger Party is bashing the financial reform
bill. This is the same rabble that claims to be incensed over the hundreds
and hundreds of $ Billions in bailouts given to Wall Street by the Bush administration.
Even though the Frank Luntz polled and approved
distortion ‘Permanent Wall Street Bailout’ jargon parroted by
republican leaders in any discussion about financial reform has been thoroughly debunked,
the tea baggers accept this emotionally charged but phony jargon as gospel.
The baggers assert that with its’
passage the government will take over the remaining 5/6 of the economy. Given
their outrageous and laughable claims that the government took over 1/6 of the
economy with the health care reform law, it’s not very hard to understand that with
their twisted logic they would imagine that placing sensible rules on banks to
prevent another financial melt-down might equal taking over the remainder of
the economy.
Maybe they think the bill could
be better, but they’re not offering constructive alternative solutions. The tea
baggers are not rallying against Wall Street. They only protest against with what President Obama
and Democrats try to do.
The contradiction is rather
glaring, and appears to confirm that the tea bagger horde isn’t an independent
or issue-based movement, but in reality an astroturf faction formed and paid for by
right wing corporate titans. It doesn’t really stand for anything other than
electoral defeat of Democrats and electoral victory for Republicans.
This has to be Wall Street’s
dream-come-true: a group of easily manipulated simpletons that have seized
control of the Republican Party, fooled the media into portraying them as a
populist movement; but perversely support only those policies that benefit the
wealthiest few, at the expense of the middle-class who are the ones that do all
the work in America.
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