Tea Party Leadership Miffed At GOP For Being Political

Everyone knows that when it comes to the politics of campaign money, who you give to is going to determine who opens the door and who slams it in your face. Everyone, that is, except the Tea Party!

Republicans in Congress are attempting to eliminate far-right pressure groups and purge the party of its more extreme Tea Party elements. The New York Times reported that FreedomWorks director Matt Kibbe complained of Republican Party stalwarts who are threatening to freeze out donors who give money to Tea Party groups.

“I’ve been told by a number of donors to our super PAC that they’ve received calls from senior Republican senators,” said Kibbe to the Times.

The donors, he said, all have the same message: “I can’t give to you because I’ve been told I won’t have access to Republican leadership.”

The party establishment, Kibbe said, has started “playing hardball.”

Good grief. Cry me a river – tainted with Freedom Industries’ 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol, because who needs regulations in Teawing world?

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.