I heard on the news it's some guy who owns KochIndustries he contributes big money
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.
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.
Populism is not in decline. See the Tea Party movement, and Sarah Palin.
French revolution is the retaliation of the British to the Prussia for their suuport of the Boston tea party movement
He is talking about the tea party movement.
It's its own movement.
The Tea Party movement was a grass roots response to the increased government spending, especially in areas that have traditionally not been benefactors of government dollars. The bank bailouts, TARP, GM restructuring outside of bankruptcy, and other government intervention in the economy was the catalyst from which the Tea Party was born. Protesting the bank bailouts is what started the Tea Party Movement.
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.
Well the Boston Tea party was after officials in Boston refused to return shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston HarborToday's modern tea party movement stands for:TaxedEnoughAlready