Why did it take the tea party so long to get mad?

A rant but a great one. So the Tea Party did not exist as one says. WHY NOT while all this shameful corruption was festering? Did all the Tea Party activists just pop into being in January 2009? Were they all lying unconscious hooked up to feeding tubes waiting for the Koch Bros. to switch them into consciousness? The TP's deliberate, organised, conditional blindness to these problems, to these crimes, just destroys any claim they have to love the USA.