Those couple of thousand "tea baggers" who showed up on Capitol Hill to listen to right wing Repuglican members of Congress show their ignorance of the Constitution, the rule of law, and the English language were not the we-the-people they purport to be. 

They are willing or naive pawns of the usual GOP, right wing astroturf liars that one finds behind these pseudo-grassroots spectacles.

As reported at ThinkProgress:

"Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the corporate front group founded in the 1980s by Koch Industries billionaire David Koch, worked closely with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to orchestrate the anti-health reform rally today. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, AFP has been encouraging right-wing activists to board their buses — free of charge — to attend the rally. While AFP does not disclose all of its corporate donors, foundations controlled by David and Charles Koch provide millions in yearly funding, and David continues to chair the AFP foundation and preside over AFP’s annual convention.

"ThinkProgress found at least a dozen AFP staffers standing at their designated bus drop off point near the Capitol, handing out signs, directions, talking points, petitions, and donuts to protesters. Many of the people who work at AFP are longtime Republican operatives, like Ben Marchi, the AFP Virginia director who previously worked for the National Republican Congressional Committee and for Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX)....

"David Koch’s AFP has a long history of marshaling “grassroots” support for GOP objectives. In the early 1990s, AFP, then known as Citizens for a Sound Economy, worked secretly with then-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) to organize angry crowds following the Clintons as they touted their health reform bill. Industry money from health insurance, telecommunications, oil, and other companies has flowed freely to AFP over the years to help AFP promote an agenda of boosting the rich, stripping consumer safeguards, and maintaining corporate monopolies. Phillip Morris rented out AFP from the Koch family, contributing millions to the organization in exchange for AFP to build opposition to tobacco regulations.

"AFP’s daily activities are managed by Tim Phillips, an infamous astroturf lobbyist who built a career using Christian front groups to wage stealth campaigns. For example, his work includes fighting under the radar to promote energy deregulation for Enron and helping Jack Abramoff clients continue forced abortion sweatshops in the Northern Mariana Islands."

"Will the media report on the true driver of today’s rally? Or will they leave David Koch out of the equation, despite his hand-in-glove involvement. "

For those unfamiliar with the Koch family, "JFK faced the same right wing billionaire family as Obama does today."

Mark Ames writes: "....the far-rightwing John Birch Society which led the radical anti-JFK movement branding him a traitor was co-founded by none other than Fred Koch of Koch Industries. Like father, like sons: today, sons Charles and David Koch are co-founders and major funders of FreedomWorks, the Tea Party movement, Americans for Prosperity, and the crazy-rightwing movement branding Obama as a traitor."

Ames includes a Tom Wicker article that appeared in the NYTimes in 1961 about John F. Kennedy asserting that far right wing groups promote disunity and fear: " 'President Kennedy spoke out tonight against the right-wing John Birch Society and the so-called Minutemen in a speech at a Democratic Party dinner here.

“ 'There have always been those fringes of our society who have sought to escape their own responsibility by finding a simple solution, an appealing slogan or a convenient scapegoat,' Mr. Kennedy said.

“ 'They look suspiciously at their neighbors and their leaders,' he declared. 'They call for a ‘man on horseback’ because they do not trust the people.' "

The far right wing billionaire Kochs and their ilk continue to back the reactionary loonies on Capitol Hill...Bachmann, Foxx, Boehner, Broun, etc., funding and promoting their venemous proto-fascist, McCarthyite lies and disinformation and stoking fear and hatred, racism and bigotry among their ignorant lemming followers.