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On Revelations of Where the Secret Funding for the Tea Party Comes From

Who's behind the curtain?

Calvin Trillin

September 2, 2010

They’re meant to be a grassroots gang Of populists who quickly sprang From nowhere ’cause they’ve had enough Of liberal bureaucratic guff. Less government is what they’re for— The very goal pushed heretofore By every oilman who’s a foe Of regs that slow up making dough. And guess who’s funding them—no joke. Two wealthy oilmen name of Koch, With faux foundations in cahoots, Provide the funds. Some grass. Some roots.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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