A Dick Armey of teabaggers plan hostile takeover of GOP

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The corporate lobbyist sponsor of the Astroturf "grassroots" Tea Party, FreedomWorks, issued a "Tea Party Manifesto" (coincidentally the title of a book soon to be released by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks) in Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, threatening a hostile takeover of the GOP.

I guess after Citizens United v. FEC, corporations now want to cut out the middle-man altogether and own the GOP outright. Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe: A Tea Party Manifesto – WSJ.com (excerpt):

While the tea party is not a formal political party, local networks across the nation have moved beyond protests and turned to more practical matters of political accountability. Already, particularly in Republican primaries, fed-up Americans are turning out at the polls to vote out the big spenders. They are supporting candidates who have signed the Contract From America, a statement of policy principles generated online by hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists.

Published in April, the Contract amounts to a tea party "seal of approval." It demands fiscal policies that limit government, restrain spending, promote market reforms in health care—and oppose ObamaCare, tax hikes and cap-and-trade restrictions that will kill job creation and stunt economic growth. Candidates who have signed the Contract—including Marco Rubio in Florida, Mike Lee in Utah and Tim Scott in South Carolina—have defeated Republican big spenders in primary elections all across the nation.

These young legislative entrepreneurs will shift the balance in the next Congress, bringing with them a more serious, adult commitment to responsible, restrained government.

But let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.

The American values of individual freedom, fiscal responsibility and limited government bind the ranks of our movement. That makes the tea party better than a political party. It is a growing community that can sustain itself after November, ensuring a better means of holding a new generation of elected officials accountable.

When are these Tea Party tools going to wake up and realize that corporations are using them to advance their corporatist agenda? After every institution of our democratic republic has been destroyed and replaced by an elitist corporatist plutocracy? I hope they enjoy their serfdom under corporate servitude.