THE TEA PARTY
The “TEA PARTY” should be called THE BEER PARTY. “While Samuel Adams tried to reassert control of the meeting, people poured out
of the Old South Meeting House and headed to Boston Harbor”. Samuel Adams was a brewer of beer so there is the possibility he had his fill of TEA and possibly thinking, "Hmm, drink beer, no more tea"...
To my knowledge, no TEA has been named after him. How sad. Earl Grey had a tea named after him. Today Samuel Adams Beer is an American tradition and award winner. The name was chosen in honor of the American patriot famous for his role in the American Revolution. And his beer. If you asked 500 people today who is Samuel Adams, the most popular answer is "he makes beer".
Samuel Adams immediately worked to
publicize and defend it. He argued that the Tea Party was not the act of a
lawless mob, but was instead a principled protest and the only remaining option
the people had to defend their constitutional rights.
That evening, a group of 30 to 130 men, after some careful comsumption of the brew it is rumored, and thinly disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded the three vessels, the Dartmouth,
Eleanor and the Beaver and, over the course of three hours,
dumped all 342 chests of tea into the water. This we do know. You see, the blame always fell on the Indians, not withstanding many impersonators heavily imbibed had problems in/with their Tee-Pee and possibly polluted the harbor at that time.
TEA PARTY TRIVIA
The location of the Griffin's Wharf site
of the Tea Party places it near the foot of Hutchinson Street (today's Pearl
Street). To this day the TEA dump has never been even
closely challenged in the Guinness book of World Records. The last attempt, led to disqualification,
when it was discovered the modern day “would be colonialists” used Instant Tea. There are no ships in Boston Harbor anymore loaded with Tea. Maybe some pot smuggled aboard and other stuff but not TEA. So change your name to the TEA Pot party and cover the bases.
Earl Grey is the name of an Indian-British Dark aromatic tea spiced with the oil of Bergamot Orange and named after the Second Earl Grey. He was not the leader of the first TEA party. So forget the “Earl Grey” party. The three ships were the Dartmouth, Eleanor and the Beaver and not the Nina, the Piñata, and the Mongo Santa Maria.
WHATS IN
A NAME
I have never
cared for the name the “TEA” Party.
Why is it any group that thinks their values and morals might be above
the common mark always grabs a good piece of history. They steal the name and declare themselves instant winners because of the alignment to that historic name? Some of them should have selected the "Official Greedy Selfish Bastards Club". -Or- something more modern, and inspiring than
the TEA party. How about the “BEER PARTY”?
Perhaps the original TEA partiers were a bunch of coffee investors looking to change history with a new drink. Can’t think it can happen? Look at Coca Cola. Maybe, they hated TEA. At least be original. How about the “COKE” party? On a scale of one to ten that could get you three to five.
The current crew is not the original TEA PARTY. They were brave colonists who had a cause and acted out what they believed in. And they were all of one cause. Domination of their rights by the private companies backed by the Brits. Big business ruled the colonialists just as they rule the Congress today.
This Tea Party crew today is a mixed bag of both good
people and fringe idiots, lightly seasoned by a myriad of sub chapters that
would make the crew from “One Flew over the Coo-Koos nest look sane”. That’s
the problem.
THE RIGHT, REALLY RIGHT RIGHTISTS
OK picking a slightly different name can be good if it describes who and what you are. But the problem is with the current crew all calling themselves the TEA Party, who is the real TEA party because they all have different agendas. It’s an identification thingy, as Sarah Palin would put it.
In a controversial documentary, Chris Matthews MSNBC linked examined possible links between the grassroots movement and radical right-wing patriot groups who wish to overthrow the government.
OK, these nutcase fringer's have been around for years, nothing new. These radical self termed "Patriotic Americans" right wing, gun hugging, “don’t take my
gun away” some even carrying an NRA card in lieu of a voter registration card, world crass intellectuals have un-caved themselves.
Diligently training in the Michigan and Carolina woods in pseudo scenarios for the eventual day when the LORD will instruct them to do their thing. Result, seven arrested under federal inditements for attempted murder of Police Officers. The charges of walking on their knuckles and stealing bananas were considered too small to prosecute and will be considered misdemeanors.
A barrage of letters came forth from the true troglodytes who said they had nothing to do with these cretins. Hey, if you like shooting that much, wearing camo’s, and playing paintball in the woods, join the ARMY. Do something right for your country, not like those religious imbeciles in Michigan. They got arrested, setting up a scenario to shoot a Police Officer and then ambush others at the funeral. How far do right wings go? Too far. In my book, that’s treason. Period.
No one takes their party line seriously other
then in the halls of the FBI and other agencies that watch over rebellious
groups of idiots. Still needed anti-terrorist hands and assets are wasted on
these nuts since they have to be watched as the trigger one day might be under the
leadership of Jack Daniels.
THE REAL TEA PARTY
About the National Tea Party Federation (NTPF): The Federation is a broad coalition of national and regional Tea Party groups committed to improving communications between local, regional, and national tea party organizations. Our purpose is to facilitate and support clarity of message, rapid response to media misinformation, and to continue to collaborate and promote the movement’s core principles of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. Sounds impressive. For more information or to register and participate in the National Tea Party Federation, log on to their website at www.nationalteapartyfederation.com.
We're intelligent protesters, not violent racists, we aren't dangerous, "We simply love our country and refuse to be useful idiots." Their problem is they are "too decentralized, too localized and too fragmented" to effect any real change, stoked up by Republicans who want their votes.
ENTER THE LEGION OF DOOM
Quote From: Richard Hofstadter's 1955 essay "The
Pseudo-Conservative Revolt," "The ideology of pseudo-conservatism can
be characterized but not defined, because the pseudo-conservative tends to be
more than ordinarily incoherentsy about politics."
GUEST COMMENTARY by Noted Science Officer Lt. Admiral Spock,
He mentions in his narrative about the collective BORG, he thinks the TEA party is a collective also because they all answer to the same drummers though they are individuals... cloned annswers.
Some of them recite, fake, endorse, proclomate and master-debate the talk, they think is the talk, but don’t walk the walk, because they are lost in space not quite understanding exactly how the galaxy (Our Congress) works.
We have some right-wingers so far right their space shuttles can’t make left turns and we need to use the tractor beam.
We managed to scrape up the birthers, led by Michelle Bachman, from the planet Uranus, who challenged Barack Obama’s birth Certificate, the pseudo patriots, and militia members, who never served their country, constitutionalists and anti-can't read constitutionalists, and those whose constitution needs a good physic, and LORD get their sign painters a spell checker.
Then LORD T-RUMPER joined the foray. His comments on birtherism really excited the masses. Proving stupidity is not dead.
-Show me your voter registration card or we will intern you on the Klingon prison planet Rura Penthe. It was good enough for Kirk and McCoy till Kirk found out the alien gal was a shape shifter and he didn't swing that way. Note: Rura Penthe actually first appears in the Jules Verne Novel "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea as the island penal colony that Captain Nemo wanted to destroy. Island plagarism meet science fiction.
THE AFTERBIRTH
The Tea Pots are whistling loudly because the few that made Washington met the Republican Party. Already on commentary shows, blogs, newspapers, the rift is raft. The pots are hot and the love is shot. I should write RAP for them. The potters are angry at the GOP for a series of supposed compromises with the opposition. Think of it as A-Holes meet the SUPER A-HOLES!
Two months after the Tea Party helped propel Republicans to a historic victory and received a cold welcome into the party some of their leaders are claiming something happened when their new congressmen drink from the Potomac.
Tea Party Celebrities, some as qualified for office as Alfred E. Newman have been passed up for leadership positions on committees. Spare me please, the newbies aren't happy that their rubber blubber endorsees haven't taken over the Congress. Just because you can recite the party line over and over again does not make you an expert. I call these folks political Elmo Dolls complete with pre-recorded quotes and mis-speaks already set in silicon wafers..
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), for example, lost to Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), for chairmanship of the House appropriations committee. A most powerful position but Rogers clearly had seniority even if he does have a taste for pork sandwiches mostly eaten in Kentucky.
The Bush tax-cut deal clearly got the pots boiling over the stove. Compromise with the liberal Democrats, never. The tax cut pill, not a bill, added millions to the debt. In two years it will be back again, just like that pill you swallowed this morning, good for 24 hours, and the battle will ensue again over the Bush and now the inherited Obama Tax cut. Meanwhile we will still be borrowing from China and going down the toilet at the same time. Shop Wal-mart, the dollar spent there will be available for the next round of borrowing as 88% of Wal-marts dollar go to China.
They are also pissed at the "START treaty and Don't ask, Don't tell". They are against anything that helps the current administration even if it means the wrong decision. The "Start Treaty and Don't Ask, Don't Tell' were long overdue by a do-nothing Congress and a Party of No.
The only thing I see coming from the Tea Party is a style of politics by a few that will upset the many and the Republicans deserve every bit of it they get. They fueled their fires, the created rhetoric having little truth or value and woke up the old Ross Perot Closet-teers, the "Bircher's, a few Sons of the Birchers" and every costumed dot needing attention at rallies held by FOX's powerful BS lobby.