Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

By GottaLaff

Who knew the tea party revolution would be against the Not Democrats? That ripping sound you hear is the Rushpublic party shredding itself:

[T]ea party forces are confronting the Republican establishment by backing insurgent conservatives and generating their own candidates — even if it means taking on GOP incumbents.

“We will be a headache for anyone who believes the Constitution of the United States … isn’t to be protected,” said Dick Armey, chairman of the anti-tax and limited government advocacy group FreedomWorks, which helped plan and promote the tea parties, town hall protests and the September ‘Taxpayer March’ in Washington. “If you can’t take it seriously, we will look for places of other employment for you.”

Dickle Me Armey is already a headache for most of us, so that comment didn't have much, how you say... bite.

“We’re not a partisan organization, and I think many Republicans are disappointed we are not,” added Armey, a former GOP congressman.

Tea Tantrumers partisan? Why would anyone think that?

Tea party organizers say their resistance to Republican Party-backed primary candidates has much to do with what they perceive as the GOP’s stubborn insistence on embracing candidates who don’t abide by a small government, anti-tax conservative philosophy.

“It’s an outgrowth of the frustration people have had with the Republican Party,” said Andrew Moylan, director of governmental affairs for the National Taxpayers Union, another group that has played a large role in organizing the tea party movement. [...]

“I think the GOP establishment has ignored their constituents and the feelings of their constituents for years,” added Meckler.

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.

If only the Tea Tantrumers weren't such a puny, whiny bunch of nutcases, the Rushpublics might actually care about this.

Oh wait. They probably do. They can't afford to lose anyone else. I mean, what's lower than a basement?

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.

Why, thank you. Please do continue to split your party. We'll be happy to sit here on the sofa with our gigantic Costco-sized bag of popcorn and watch.