Actually I wouldn't say that's entirely true in the case of these House crazies. A lot of these class 2012 southern teabaggers aren't even funded by your usual mega-rich Wall Street/corporate America establishment power brokers. They get big money donations, but they are largely from regional businesses like car dealerships, industrial management companies, construction, etc. Most of their donors are millionaires, not billionaires. That's why so many of them are
They kinda are grassroots, on a political scale anyway. Just grassroots retarded.
And many of them have no education in economics at all, whether formal or otherwise. Take that moron from Florida Ted Yoho who said passing the debt limit won't do anything. The man is a veterinarian in a rural ass area of north Florida. He knows nothing about economics.
And that's the profile of a lot of these 2012 class teabaggers. They're financially well-off big fishes in small southern ponds that don't really know anything about political science or econ who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin and decided to run in Republican primaries in gerrymandered red districts and they won.
Now Ted Cruz is in the Senate and the big dogs run shyt there. They told him to
and he fell back faster and harder than the House folks after his little stunt got the hounds frothing.