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It took newly elected senator and super-teaparty libertarian Rand Paul of Kentucky all of one week to be corrupted by Washington.

He campaigned (as did all Tea Partiers of note) on being dead against earmarking spending on his home state in federal spending bills. And now, a week after the election, he has already been corrupted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/rand-paul-earmarks-ban_n_780832.html

In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells me that they are a bad "symbol" of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky's share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it's doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night. "I will advocate for Kentucky's interests," he says.

Well, well, well. So the tea party candidates were just a bunch of power-hungry opportunists after all. Who would have thunk?

justme says

The most interesting part of the next two years, spectacle-wise, will be to see how quickly the teabaggers get corrupted by the Republican establishment.

Please add other Tea Part flip-flops to this thread as you see them.

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