Tea Baggers Keep Making Me Look Like a Genius

April 2, 2009, I said:

The answer is simple. Tea Baggers aren't against spending. They aren't even against big government. There is no proof that Republicans are opposed to large government spending programs whatsoever.

June 28, 2010, I said:

Tea Baggers aren't against Big Government. They aren't against deficit spending. They aren't against social programs. They are merely Republicans who are mad they lost the election.

June 14, 2010, I said:

In reality the summation of this would mean Rand Paul is not against the federal government issuing bailouts to private business.  He's not against any of it.  He just likes to say he is so he can continue to enjoy the label of Washington Outsider that is rolling up his sleeves to go Freedom Fight against Big Government.  All the while Rand Paul is vastly enjoying the comforts of government bailouts.  Normally a person that did this would be called delusional.  Nowadays they're called Republican.

Bloomberg, April 30, 2012:

Yet the anti-bailout fervor that drove the messaging of Republican candidates during the campaign cycle of 2009 and 2010 has dissipated, and those same lawmakers are now collecting money from the firms bailed out by President George W. Bush’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. [...]

The political action committees of those institutions have distributed $169,499 through March 31 to the campaign coffers of the 10 freshman Tea Party-backed lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee, according to an analysis of campaign finance disclosure records.

I'll say it again, just for the smell of it.  Tea Baggers are not against spending.  They aren't against Big Government.  They aren't against TARP.  They aren't against bailouts.  They aren't against social programs and they aren't opposed whatsoever to deficits.  They simply like talking about all that stuff and pretending it all came from Democrats.