Delaware victory for Tea Party

The Guardian puts a positive spin on it by saying shes probably unelectable but after eight years of W Bush sensible people know not to underestimate the potential achievements of the right in the US. The she in question is Christine O'Donnell who managed to beat a veteran Republican in a primary for the senate seat vacated by Joe Biden.

She is a straight up fucking loony so of course she had the backing of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin, along with the usual unpleasantness right wingers claim as ideology Ms O'Donnell also opposes masturbation something that might well alienate Penn and Teller style libertarians in the Tea Party but then again expecting Tea Partiers to know whats going on within their corporate sham movement is probably expecting too much. Certainly the establishment GOP is not pleased with the result, having already stated they wouldn't fund her if she won, before the primary took place.

More important, is to wonder why the brothers Koch, corporate overlords of the Tea Party, chose to fund this woman to the tune of $250k. Pessimism aside it does seem unlikely she'll win especially with the GOP against her. If anything gives us a hint as to why they backed this lost cause it is the film Fight Club. You see while it is never definitively stated Fight Club is inferred to take place in Wilmington, Delaware, the reason for this is the explosive finale. Tyler Durden's plan to blow up several credit card company's buildings so as to reset society to zero suggests a city with a high concentration of CC companies and thanks to favourable tax and corporate welfare schemes Wilmington Delaware has by far the highest concentration of Credit Card Company headquarters in the US, if not the world.

Now if a Democratic candidate was up against a more mainstream Republican candidate then some discussion of the role of credit card companies, predatory lending etc might have come up given the current financial crisis. One of the key reasons the Tea Party exists and is a wise investment for its' corporate owners is to distract people's anger from the failings of capitalism and the crimes of the super rich and onto racism, homophobia, xenophobia and religious absurdities so a mainstream candidate running in Delaware was a problem. With Christine O'Connell spouting insanity on the campaign trail however nothing important will be focused on, there will be no need for a Democratic candidate to risk alienating big donors by posturing about finance and even if for some reason Chris Coons did so (he wont) the media will be too distracted by reporting on the outlandish things the Tea Party lady is saying.

So another win for the absurdly rich guys!

Oh and to finish off have a look at the BBC article and learn to hate Mark Mardell's smug fat face as he goes on about Republicans caring about ideological purity and pretending the Tea Party is some kind of grass roots movement.