This shows you the understanding the main strema media has of the Tea Party movement. The Politico writes that they are starting to turn against the GOP leadership.

Headline:

Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

It’s an unusual predicament for the Republican Party, since the conservative-oriented issues that animate Tea Party activists once seemed destined to make the movement a valuable auxiliary to the Republican Party.

While there’s little evidence of tea party activist support for Democratic candidates, the specific notion of electing a GOP majority hasn’t ranked high on their agenda either.

At the recent “Defending the American Dream Summit,” a conservative event held in Arlington, Va., a breakout session featuring tea party organizers saw panelists peppered with questions ranging from how to start up political action committees and 501(c)(3) organizations to whether it was necessary to hire lawyers.

“Nothing is going to change unless we can get politicians elected who can implement fiscally conservative policies,” Teri Adams of the Philadelphia-based Independence Hall Tea Party Association, which will be launching a political arm, told those in attendance.

In a handful of states, tea party activists have zeroed in on House Republican incumbents and have launched primary challenges in protest of their past support for the controversial Wall Street bank bailout.

It’s like I tell every half witted troll that stops by long enough to write, “Where were you for the last eight years?”

I’ve been write here, decrying every bit of wasteful, unConstitutional spending that Congress and President Bush came up with. Our outrage over spending is not new. It’s just reached its boiling point with the unbridged recklessness of a Democrat Congress coupled with a socialist executive branch. But let’s be very clear: this is not about party. This is about adhering to the limits created by the Constitution and about conservative and libertarian policies.

The GOP leadership is generally not on our side. They are on the party’s side. That’s why you see things like Not One Red Cent. When you have the Senate arm of the party endorsing moderate Republicans over conservative ones, you get this backlash. When they called me for money, I told them they wouldn’t get a dime out of me, but conservative candidates would get all I could afford to give them.

By their reaction, it wasn’t the first time they had heard that sentiment.

I don’t expect the left to ever get it, but I know the GOP will have to if it hits them in the pocketbook. This isn’t about Republican vs. Democrat. It’s about values.

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