Unassigned Blustery Bette Midler's not very good at making the Tea Party look bad Sarah D. | 12:53 PM on September 30, 2013 Typical hocus-pocus from Midler. The “gun lobby” clearly doesn’t control the government. But we’ve gotta admit that it’d be pretty sweet if the Tea Party took over the GOP. Advertisement *** Related: Twitchy coverage of Bette Midler