Some tea partiers wake up, smell the coffee

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then irony might best be served as lukewarm Laodicean (look it up) mush.

Chow down, tea partiers!

A few are realizing the responsibilities that go with actually getting a bit of a seat at the table.

Others are realizing the coffee they smell is the Koch Brothers brand, at a cost of about $1 billion a cup more than Hills Brothers. (Do they even make that any more?)

And, for those tea partiers who have smelled this particular brand of coffee? Charles and David Koch campaign contributions.

Guess what, Ms. Gena Bell of Ohio, ardent supporter of John Kasich for governor and angry at being used like a cheap prop by Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity?

Your new governor drank the maximum allowable $5,000 Charles Koch cup of coffee. Feel enthusiastic now?

Or, now that you have a paid political job yourself, will you have a different take?

And other Ohioans who feel similar to her, but never were offered political positions, will you shrug off billionaire money in politics? Will you even actively campaign against it? Will you push the GOP to address the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court, at least to some degree, through campaign-finance legislation?