No. The Tea Party movement is not nearly as organized as a political party, though some operatives of the Republican party are trying very hard to absorb the Tea Party's enthusiasm.
It's a reference to the Boston Tea Party. The acronym started with "Taxed Enough Already."
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Tea does not actually stand for anything. It is just the name of a popular beverage.
The Tea Party movement is a grassroots movement of millions of like-minded Americans from all backgrounds and political parties. Tea Party members share similar core principles supporting the United States Constitution as the Founders intended, such as: • Limited federal government • Individual freedoms • Personal responsibility • Free markets • Returning political power to the states and the people As a movement, The Tea Party is not a political party nor is looking to form a third political party any time soon. The Tea Party movement, is instead, about reforming all political parties and government so that the core principles of our Founding Fathers become, once again, the foundation upon which America stands.
While Tea Party members have claimed they are non-partisan, research shows that most are affiliated with (and often supported by) the Republican Party. Note that the Boston Tea Party had nothing to do with the current Tea Party movement, although both were originally motivated by frustration over unfair taxation.
The tea party movement is an attempt to reduce the size of American Government and the intrusion of government into people's lives. While many people involved in it are extremely religious, the movement itself differs from the right wing movement of the last 30 years by not involving religion.
French revolution is the retaliation of the British to the Prussia for their suuport of the Boston tea party movement
Populism is not in decline. See the Tea Party movement, and Sarah Palin.
No, the Intolerable Acts was a result of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act led to the Boston Tea Party
After the boston tea party the king taxed all the tea in the colonies.
During the Boston tea party, the American colonists invaded British tea ships and threw all their tea overboard.