Teapublicans and their known associates are simply the best shills for corporations that money can buy. And now that the Supreme Court has been packed with right wing ideologues they've opened the floodgates to even more corporate money, hell even foreign corporations can legally buy politicians. Check out Bill Maher's interview with Anderson Cooper.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/bill-maher-corporatist-ev_n_465073.html