What a diference a few months make.

Not too long ago the Tea Party people were huffing and puffing, making believe they were against the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich when, actually, they were bought and paid for by the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich to Brown Shirt the Democrats and anyone who might inconvenience the vast wealth of the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich.

A few weeks ago only, great attention was delivered to the twinkling and well-intentioned Occupy Wall Street movement with the sure prospect that the 99 percenters would somehow ding the rapacious anti-Americanism of the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich.

Today, Mitt Romney and the moguls of Wall Street and the rest of the megarich have pummeled to fringe insignificance those lunatic Republicans — Republicans!! — who dared to suggest that Romney was a money-ghoul whose barbarian company plundered and fed on the decaying carcasses of other American companys — firing American workers by the hundreds of thousands to make him a few rotten bucks. People on the one side; big money on the other.

Who wins? The Romneys, of course.

Whatever the challenge, whatever the criticism, whatever the logic or fairness, the Republicans turn to their money. No matter the morality, they will rally against those who imperil their greed and lust for money. They call it an attack on capitalism when someone criticizes the dark truth that the bigger capitalist eats the little capitalist and spits out the bones of the mere people in the process, wrecking actual lives so that they can have a few more meaningless millions on their balance sheets.

The party that stands for nothing but money, that has no principle but principle, that worships at the altar of greed and is pleased offer human sacrifice to wealth, this party — the Republican Party —  never bends, never breaks. It uses as a club The Nazarene — who was actually born poor, lived poor and died poor and who railed against the wealthy and the money-changers. It uses the flag of the nation that overthrew the political monarchy only to be taken over by the party of money monarchy. It kills our soldier-children to protect the interests of the wealthy and the merchants of war and is never satisfied when there is no war going on; it can never get enough of war, even though it is always the poor who do the dying and the bloated rich who make the profits.

And so when even the apostates of their own party actually have the temerity to wonder whether Mitt Romney and his ilk have gone too far, leaders themselves who have done the rich’s dirty work for so long, the party turns on them with a howl of rage, crushing them and the truth under the golden heel.

It has always been this way with the Republican party and it will never change. This is what they are, nothing better.