Useful Idiots

Tim McNulty reports that the natural gas drillers are going shopping for some astroturf:

The main Pittsburgh Tea Party event of the year — on tax day — returns to the revamped Market Square this Friday at noon.

Conservative talk show host Rose Tennent is the MC. The anti-Obama/health reform/stimulus group is apparently veering into new territory, underground — one of the featured speakers is the spokesman for Range Resources, Matt Pitzarella, who’s going to talk on Marcellus Shale’s impacts on the Pa economy.