For the Republicans it's all about raw power

Commentary By Ron Beasley

Now we all know the Tea Party crowd is being taken for a ride by the oligarchs.  Via AMERICAblog this on Tea Party favorite Scott Brown. 

Financial executives spent big on Brown

May be precursor to midterm elections; Obama�s proposed regulations key issue

In a six-day span just before the US Senate election, Republican Scott Brown collected nearly $450,000 from donors who work at financial companies, a sign the industry is prepared to spend heavily in the upcoming midterm elections to beat back new controls and taxes President Obama wants to impose.

The donations, from hundreds of financial executives, far exceeded what Brown received from doctors and others in the health care industry in the final days of the campaign. While Brown saw donations from all quarters explode in mid-January, as polls showed him closing fast on opponent Martha Coakley, the donations from financial workers coincided with several key developments that would affect their companies.

On Jan. 14, five days before the Senate election, President Obama proposed a fee on large financial firms to recoup the cost of the government�s bailout of the industry, and he angrily demanded that those firms cut executive bonuses.

And it would appear they got what they paid for:

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said Sunday he would filibuster financial
regulatory reform legislation in its present form because the �bill is
not a good bill, period.�

The Republican party is not concerned with the American People including the Tea Party demonstrators.  They are not concerned about the US economy.  They are concerned about power - winning elections in 2010 and 2012.  They realize they can't do that without money from all Street and the banksters - the oligarchs.  With the recent Supreme Court decision the oligarchs have a lot more ammunition in their arsenal.

Update:

Steve Benen has more on Scott Brown:

But I was particularly struck by the notion that Brown believes he's
"heard zero talk about jobs." I realize Brown isn't the brightest light
in the harbor, if you know what I mean, but after only three months in
the Senate, I do expect him to have some sense of the bills he's already
voted on. For example, he might remember voting on this
"tax extenders" bill last month, which was intended to spur job
creation, or perhaps voting on this
job bill in February. In both instances, Scott Brown voted with
Democrats, which was a fairly big deal with his far-right buddies. Seems
like the kind of thing he might remember. It really wasn't that long
ago.

And yet, there was Brown, telling a national television audience he's
"heard zero talk about jobs." That's true, so long as one ignores all
the talk about jobs.

In some ways, I almost feel bad for Scott Brown. He was elected to
Congress before he was able to learn anything about public policy, and
was put in a high-profile role before he could speak intelligently about
any area of public policy. He didn't even expect to win his Senate
campaign, so there probably wasn't any real point to him learning
anything substantive before running anyway.

Dumb politicians are exactly what the oligarchs want in their Republican politicians - take the money and vote the way I tell you.  Whatever you do don't think!  Just look at Mitch McConnell.