When Will TeaPublicans Be Satisfied?

I just don't get it. (Actually I do get it, but this is a rhetorical gambit).  It was just a few years ago that the real frustration and anger at the Washington/Wall Street alliance for sinking our economy became palpable. Bailouts of banks and investment firms stood in stark contrast to the foreclosures and layoffs that bedeviled the average American.  A few random protests by angry voters were covered by the so-called Liberal Media.  Some of the protests referenced the Boston Tea Party and so the Tea Party "movement" became fodder for the evening news and the Faux News/CannedNN anchors and hosts.  (We will leave out of this story their unfortunate initial moniker of Teabaggers). These sounds and images looked like a true grassroots revolt against the powers elite in NY/DC. 

There were some tell-tale signs , however, that all was not what is seemed. Right-wing media personalities and politicians stepped to forefront, officially organizing rallies.  Tea Partiers were funded and transported to these rallies even though there was no real fundraising practices.  How did these folks coalesce when there was no visible leadership.  Then it slowly leaked out that various right-wing lobbying groups, Freedom Works in particular, were picking up the tab and offering logistical support.  Folks like Dick Armey and Koch Brothers were pulling the strings behind the scene, much like Wizards of Oz.  They, and their Faux News/CAnnedNN brethren, maintained the fiction of the Tea Party as a grassroots movement even long after it was clear that the Tea Partiers, although genuinely angry, were an astroturf operation:  real folks in real pain being manipulated to support the agenda of those same people who screwed them in the first place.

To this day, the people who most benefited from the Tea Party activities try to maintain the fiction that their agenda is mainstream anger, when in fact their agenda is consolidating more political and economic power in the Wall Street/DC axis, if such a thing is possible.

Here's what I don't get. The same politicians and pundits who valorized the astroturfed Tea Party protests now see great public danger from the Occupy Wall Street protests that have spread across the country. A peaceful grassroots effort to make the average citizen aware of the true perpetrators of our economic mess is being compared to violent mobs. Just a few years ago,  Tea Partiers invaded and took over town hall meetings.  Tea Partiers called for violence against their perceived "enemies."  Tea Partiers used extra-legal means to influence elections.  And the Occupy Wall Street protesters are a menace to country?  Today, law enforcement agencies have been pepper spraying and beating non-violent OWS protesters sitting in public places. Give me a break.  When will TeaPublicans be satisfied?  When the economic elites can walk to their offices safely while the rest of us keep our mouths shut and accept the crumbs from that fall from their plates.Then the average American who has been gulled by these bastards will discover who their true friends are. And they are not on Wall Street or K Street, that's for sure.