There Is No Such Thing as the Tea Party; There Is Only a Collection of Billionaires

Wednesday, 02 October 2013 15:17

By The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed

To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, there is no such thing as the Tea Party. There is only a collection of individual billionaires.

Back in 2009 and 2010, during the debate about Obamacare and during the mid-term elections that swept Republicans into power in the House of Representatives, Americans first caught a glimpse of a monster. That monster has now taken over the halls of Congress and shut down the government that George Washington had three horses shot out from under from him to create.