The best part about former Texas Congresscheater Dick Armey is that he won’t stay bought.

As the boys at Freedom Works have learned, you can buy him but you don’t get a receipt.  After his armed coup at Freedom Works failed, Cancer Treatment Centers of America founder Richard J. Stephenson agreed to pay Armey $400,000 a year for 20 years just for Armey to leave and go away.  Armey claimed that with this buy out, he;ll never have to work again.  Except for his mouth – he’ll keep working that.

What did Freedom Works get for its $8 million buy-out of Dick’s contract? They got Dick.

Former FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey revealed that the Tea Party group paid Glenn Beck about $1 million to say “nice things” about the group on his radio show, and that it got a negative return on that investment … It’s the latest strange revelation in the FreedomWorks civil war. Armey reportedly tried to stage an armed coup last fall, but his reign didn’t last long, and donor Richard J. Stephenson agreed to pay Armey $400,000 a year for 20 years to go away. Apparently that didn’t come with a non-disparagement clause.

And he also says FreedomWorks paid Rush Limbaugh to talk some sweet about them.

It appears that Armey is going to take his 15 minutes of fame in sound bites.

Pass the popcorn.  It ain’t my bull being gored.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.