So much for grass roots.

[IntravenousDemilo]

A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.

Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability for the fossil fuel industry's role in driving climate disruption.

The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, traces the roots of the Tea Party's anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes, as well as health studies finding a link between cancer and secondhand cigarette smoke.

http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/02/11/study-confirms-tea-party-was-created-big-tobacco-and-billionaires

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1. Koch products in your grocery store:

Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie paper cups
Vanity Fair paper products
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Sparkle paper towels

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Yep. Where do you think all those half a million dollar buses with tea party painted all over ...

.... the sides in expensive graphics came from. And the entertainment.. And the advertising.

Dick Army and Americans for Prosperity.

Which is kind of funny because Army was up to his eyeballs in lobbying for money for the banks and the bailout which is what the tea party stooges were going apoplectic about.

Nothing like fucking them coming and going