Financially Scandalous Tea Party Nation to Issue Ultimatum on Fiscal Responsibility

Theme of the platform to be sculpted at this weekend’s Tea Party Nation convention, which features $559 registration fees for its “grassroots” conference, demands a $359 payment for people who want to hear Sarah Palin give a speech, pays Palin $100,000 to give that speech and puts her on either a first-class ticket or a private jet for her travel, requires payments of thousands of dollars from activist groups that want to speak at the conference, requires its supposedly salt-of-the-earth attendees to wear “business attire” when they pick away at “hors d’oeuvres,” and makes its money by selling memorabilia made in overseas sweatshops:

“Fiscal responsibility.”