In the tea parties' first month of existence, they were just a pimple on a few right wing bloggers websites until Fox News, Dick Armey and the Koch Brothers took over, providing funding and free national air time and made it a national teabircher
October 24, 2011

In the tea parties' first month of existence, they were just a pimple on a few right wing bloggers websites until Fox News, Dick Armey and the Koch Brothers took over, providing funding and free national air time and made it a national teabircher movement. The #OWS protests are still in their infancy and have already proved to be a truly grassroots movement in a very short period of time and that really has shook up the corporate bigwigs that control the GOP and Wall Street. Here's a typical statement by a Wall Street enabler that totally ignores the truth about the tea party and even conservative beliefs overall in an IBD editorial:

[The tea party] believes government should work for us, not the other way around. The OWS mobs believe government owes them and should take from those who earned and give to those who want. Redistribution of wealth is as much their mantra as it is the mantra of the occupant of the White House.

Speaking as one member of the protesters, OWS believes Wall Street hubris is responsible for destroying the world's economy. They got bailed out by us and then threw it back in the faces of average American working families by taunting us and refusing to invest in America. There's a belief in stricter banking and Wall Street regulations are necessary to keep a mortgage type scandal from ever happening again. They used the middle and working classes as an ATM machine to cover up for their greedy behavior with no consequences. It would be nice to have the hordes of K Street lobbyists and big monied donations that corrupt the political process outlawed, a repeal of Citizens Untied and the tenets of Glass-Steagal Act restored.

These are a few ideas, but I only speak for myself.

I was emailed this rewriting of history, a chore that conservatives live for and emailed IBD that they should try to get a little balance in their coverage of politics. I was told that they do include lefty views and asked me who I would recommend. I suggested Digby and myself knowing full well that would never happen.

Movement conservatives DO NOT believe government should work for them, but believe government is the problem and should be gutted so Milton Friedman's economic vision can rule. Their goal has been is to disenfranchise the left and starve the federal government of funds so that the Galtian Overlords can rule the land. Is it too much to ask for a little honesty out of publications like IBD? Don't bother answering that question.

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