What Will They Do?

Many of the folks who voted for President Obama had such high hopes. Unfortunately, once he was ensconced in office, he seems far more interested in doing the bidding for the corporate elite, not the throngs of people who made it possible for him to be elected.

It is in this same vein that Dave Johnson asks a similar question for this year's campaign: What will tea party members do when their politicians betray them?

Tea Party members hate Wall Street bailouts, trade deals like NAFTA, job outsourcing, giant corporations buying laws, government spending, and elites telling the rest of us what to do. But there is no question that their candidates — many of them wealthy corporatists themselves — are funded by big corporations (even foreign oil companies) and Wall Street. So the question is, once in Congress will they vote with their base or their owners? And when they vote with the people who bought them, what will Tea Party members do about it?

Good question! The answer will be interesting.