Why is it called the Tea Party?

[utgibbs]

It just dawned on me I don't know where the Tea Party took their name. I doubt it's taken from some swinging English afternoon party with some Twinnings, scones, and clotted cream.

Please, please, please tell me it has something connected to the Boston Tea Party.

 

[GAVol]

There's no way you don't know this.

 

[n_huffhines]

There's no way you don't know this.

Yeah. I feel like it's a trap.

 

[GAVol]

Yeah. I feel like it's a trap.

You just don't understand the real world outside the back door.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Please, please, please tell me it has something connected to the Boston Tea Party.

I'll bite. Yes, it is related to the Boston Tea Party.

 

[GAVol]

I'll bite. Yes, it is related to the Boston Tea Party.

Except this time instead of dumping tea, they're dumping spenders.

EDIT: I'm so disappointed that I responded in such a bourgeois manner. I now return to watching capitalism die while looking up BJ Coleman's stats.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

I'm interested to see where he is going with this. I'm in the mood for a little afternoon drive.

 

[VolsNSkinsFan]

I was under the impression that it stood for "Taxed Enough Already"
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[DefenseisDesire]

I was under the impression that it stood for "Taxed Enough Already"
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You are correct
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[OrangeEmpire]

quick, someone post a pic of admiral akbar!
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[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

It just dawned on me I don't know where the Tea Party took their name. I doubt it's taken from some swinging English afternoon party with some Twinnings, scones, and clotted cream.

Please, please, please tell me it has something connected to the Boston Tea Party.

Taxed Enough Already

Started as a good thing, BUT Palin and Bachmann pretty much saw to it that its just another branch of the Republican party.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

I was under the impression that it stood for "Taxed Enough Already"
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Maybe so, but it was obviously a clever play on the original Boston Tea Party.

 

[RespectTradition]

Maybe so, but it was obviously a clever play on the original Boston Tea Party.

The Taxed Enough Already was a retro thing. It was called a Tea Party when a group got together to protest spending and taxes. The idea that Tea stood for something came later.

 

[volthruandthru]

Taxed Enough Already

Started as a good thing, BUT Palin and Bachmann pretty much saw to it that its just another branch of the Republican party.

I see it more as a taking over of the Republican party instead of just another branch, which I am all for.

 

[slh1089]

I see it more as a taking over of the Republican party instead of just another branch, which I am all for.

I respectively disagree. I look at someone like Ron Paul as more of a champion of the Tea Party, and he is not a Romney or Perry.

 

[volinbham]

Still waiting for the pay off

 

[Voodoomonkey]

Still waiting for the pay off

That's what she said.
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[NEO]

Ok, here's the real story for all you none tea party people.

we were all sitting around the camp fire, white sheets and hoods glistening from the fire and casting shadows against the trees in the background just itching for a rope to be hung on them when suddenly Bob (we call him Bob because that's his name) said "have you ever seen a black man drinking tea?"

At first we all looked at him kinda strange and then Billy Ray said, "no Bob, I don't think I ever have. Why you ask?"

"Well, Bob replied. "Because we need something that those black people won't want to join. Something that will make them un-interested in us. And since the don't like tea ..."

"THEN WILL NAME OUR GROUP THE TEA PARTY!" JIM BO yelled.

And that is how the Tea party was named. Just a few simple klansmen and one little idea.

We also drink Tea if by Tea to let others know who we are without having to say anything. It's kinda like our secret handshake.

 

[RollinVol]

Well that was classic. If sweet tea is the preferred tea. I must be the guy in red.
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[zjcvols]

Except this time instead of dumping tea, they're dumping spenders.

EDIT: I'm so disappointed that I responded in such a bourgeois manner. I now return to watching capitalism die while looking up BJ Coleman's stats.

I'm not gonna lie. This is some of your better work.

 

[utgibbs]

Still waiting for the pay off

I think it's highly instructive of how little history we know. If they have taken their name from the Boston Tea Party the irony is absolutely delicious for those of us in the know. I mean, I'm snickering thinking about it.

If it is "Taxed Enough Already" that's just plain lame. That is just whining.

 

[utgibbs]

Except this time instead of dumping tea, they're dumping spenders.

EDIT: I'm so disappointed that I responded in such a bourgeois manner. I now return to watching capitalism die while looking up BJ Coleman's stats.

New census data, and new NFL scouts, have both delivered a verdict in favor of utgibbs on both issues.

:hi:

It wasn't a bourgeois response, really.

 

[MystifyingVol]

It originally started with the Ron Paul supporters as a protest against the establishment and was Libertarian in nature. When the Republican party saw the grassroots support, they quickly co-opted it.... I saw it happening with my own eyes during local Republican conventions.... It is not now what it started off as. More at link. Has the Tea Party been hijacked? | Republican Liberty Caucus

 

[Thrasher865]

What does the real world outside the back door tell us about the Tea Party? I'm really waiting for somebody to be EXPOSED.

 

[MystifyingVol]

What does the real world outside the back door tell us about the Tea Party? I'm really waiting for somebody to be EXPOSED.

According to LG, they're a bunch of racists. Not sure LG is in the real world though.