Who's the real friend of the TEA Party?

Liberal columnists at The Washington Post and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution appear to have embraced the TEA Party and have raised the alarm that the grassroots movement is being undermined. 

Austin Scott (GA-8)
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The WP's Dana Milbank and the AJC's Jay Bookman are concerned that legislation introduced by freshman Georgia Representative Austin Scott to defund the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has betrayed the ideals of the TEA Party. This reveals a surprising, and heretofore suppressed, paternal concern by Messrs. Milbank and Bookman toward the conservative organization.

For readers who cringe at tortured logic, Milbank's column is helpfully entitled, "How Rep. Austin Scott betrayed his Tea Party roots". Leave aside for a moment that while Scott (GA-8) is a conservative, he has not claimed the TEA Party mantle. Relegate Milbank's confusion of legal immigrant workers and illegal immigrants to an innocent lack of understanding. What's left? Milbank accuses Scott of acting in the best interests of agri-business in his home district.