Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Tea Party | Mother Jones

Tea Partiers are pro-corporate and opposed to anything that helps ordinary people:

Here's the thing: as near as I can tell, tea partiers are not, in fact, especially put out by bailouts to the wealthy. Santelli's founding rant, as Continetti points out, was aimed at homeowners being bailed out of mortgages they couldn't afford. And as Continetti himself admits just a few sentences later, tea partiers don't have much to say about Wall Street banks. That's pretty odd for a movement supposedly opposed to big bailouts. The reality is quite different: if the tea partiers are really upset that Congress hasn't yet reined in the financial sector, they sure have a funny way of showing it. All the evidence I've seen suggests just the opposite: most tea partiers think not that Obama's financial reform proposals are too modest, but that they verge on socialism. They think he wants to take over the banks the same way he took over the car companies.