Bill Hennessy is co-founder of the St. Louis Tea Party, self-published political guru and a sales guy who also works in tech. He's also an angry man with a message: Blame "the left" for everything wrong in the world. Hennessy has a platform and a voice and he's not afraid to use it, particularly in furtherance of his primary goal, which he lays out in a post castigating fellow Tea Party agitators for failing to put a stop to a sales tax increase:

The tea party is out to destroy the left in America. If we’re not going to do that—if we’re going to just wave yellow flags and wear clever t-shirts—then let’s go back to our regular programming.

Seriously, ask yourself not what you believe, but what you will DO. The time for standing in a park shouting is over. It’s time for action.

Ordinarily Hennessy's threat would be a shruggable event. The politics of personal destruction don't play all that well on the main stage, and the idea of "destroying the left" reeks of John Bircherism with a large dose of indoctrination by right-wing anti-taxers.

Except for this: Bill Hennessey, right-wing radio pundit Dana Loesch, and Big Government publisher Andrew Breitbart are using Kenneth Gladney's bogus injuries as their proxy for race-baiting and union bashing to leverage gains in the upcoming midterm elections.

After all, war is war. When you're out to destroy people, truth just doesn't seem to make that much of a difference. It doesn't seem to matter that Gladney's injuries didn't come close to matching up with what he claims was done to him, or that his original "lawyer" was also his employer, or that the whole dustup began over insulting imagery on buttons he was handing out at a town hall meeting. For these folks, and Hennessy in particular, it's war. All-out, scorched-earth kind of war.

Adam at St. Louis Activist Hub has put together a timeline of false accusations, outright lies, and machinations to promote Gladney's case and discredit not only the Obama administration, but anyone whose politics fall to the left of, well, just about anyone. It's pretty damning, no matter how many blustery posts they write claiming otherwise.

Still. I could shake my fist in the air and write it all off as more of the same, but there's this one thing that keeps nagging at me. Andrew Breitbart, Bill Hennessy and Dana Loesch are also associated with American Majority. American Majority is funded by the Sam Adams Alliance. The Sam Adams Alliance has a newly-established relationship with close Dick Armey associate and former chief of staff Denis Calabrese. Denis Calabrese is also founder and principal of The Patriot Group, a lobbying firm established with the goal of "lobbying with backbone."

Hennessy's most recent post links to the American Majority 'grassroots summit' in Kansas City this weekend. One of the featured speakers is Eric O'Keefe, Chairman of the Sam Adams Alliance, also on the board of Wisconsin Club for Growth and a former director of Americans for Limited Government. ALG has been associated with Howard Rich and Grover Norquist.

Scroll down a bit further on the page and you'll find the Koch connection through the Americans for Prosperity Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska sponsorships.

So it goes once again. These so-called grass roots activists are really all just part of the thug wing of the Republican party. If we were to analyze the DNA of the St. Louis Tea Party, we'd find Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Charles Koch, and a bunch of College Republicans on the main strand.

Google has begun the process of choosing communities in which to test their ultra high-speed fiber network projects. One of the cities in the hunt is Topeka, Kansas. Topeka's Mayor renamed the city "Google" for a month and the search engine giant even went so far as to rename their site "Topeka" as an April Fool's joke.

There is a group calling itself Think Big Topeka that has been pushing hard to attract Google to their city, but a local member of a national, right-wing front group attempted to inject the Tea Party movement into the project as well as her own private company - and failed:

Former House Majority Leader Shari Weber was fired as executive director of the Kansas chapter of an organization dedicated to training tea party activists and other novice political aspirants in the art of campaigning for elective office.

Her departure from the Topeka office of American Majority, led nationally by a son of former U.S. Rep. Jim Ryun, was linked to an attempt to piggyback her start-up online employment company to Think Big Topeka's effort to have the capital city named host of Google's experiment with an ultrafast fiber-optic Internet system.

Jared Starkey, owner of a Topeka software development company and part of the loose-knit group promoting Topeka's bid for the Google project, said Weber approached several people participating in Think Big Topeka with an idea for promoting her company, Cyber Job Centers, by drawing upon goodwill emerging from City Hall on behalf of Think Big Topeka.

Starkey said he was concerned Weber was attempting to co-opt Think Big Topeka for personal gain. He said it didn't make sense for Weber to privately advance the notion of obtaining local taxpayer funding for Cyber Job Centers while publicly leading the Kansas chapter of an organization dedicated to limited government and free markets.

"I told her that Think Big Topeka was not a political organization and not a political tool," Starkey said. "They were very persistent." Read on...

Did you catch that? A person who makes a living training Tea Party wannabes was trying to get taxpayer dollars to advance her own company. I'm SHOCKED! I'm also shocked that Weber was actually let go for something that should have pleased the Tea Party gods. I applaud Starkey for calling her out. Who knows, perhaps Google will reward him and the city of Topeka for keeping the teabaggers out of their project?