The Original Tea Party wasn't really about the .03 tax on tea, as paying the tax was cheaper than buying the black market tea at the time. Likewise, this Tea Party wasn't so much about tax rates as what we feel as a lack of representation by our Government (even though ours is elected as opposed to back then). This includes excesses by both the current administration and the last(and those before it), and pretty much all of Congress. There's no free lunch, and Bush's deficit that Obama's gladly multiplying will come due.

lovely.

Geoffrey Chaucer you are not.

Blah, blah, blah guberment bad, blah, blah, blah I don't have any solutions, blah, blah, blah I wonder what Ayn Rand is doing tonight! Thank god the highway is still open so I can shoot over there and check her out!

^^ Good job in advancing the debate with a meaningful response^^
I would also like the add that the Tea Party Protest wasn't really about a single issue but a culmination different ideas and topics. You had the people that are upset about taxes, the amount of spending both sides have been apart of, the small group of people that just don't like Obama, and the one I personally am for; support for HR 1207 aka audit the Federal Reserve.

So you're admitting it was incoherent, then? If y'all decide to do this again next year, and especially if you're planning on doing it on TAX DAY, maybe the rhetoric about it "not being about (er, maybe only not solely about) taxes" should be hammered out a little better. Don't you think?

Oh goodie it's the lost chapter of the Canterbury Tales, you know I was thinking of going to one of those Tea Parties I heard the tea there is spot on. I don't want my whole family to die though because the moral of this story is obviously that if you have a dissenting opinion from the majority your whole family will die and your life will go to shit.

where the hell were the tea parties during the last administration? oh, that's right, there weren't any, because the current crop of conservatives don't really care how much is being spent, so long as it's not being spent by librulz.

Actually motorfirebox us Conservatives have been worried about the spending of Bush and many of us did write to our representatives in opposition to the Bush Bail outs and TARP funds. However, like Al Gore says it takes a big event to get peoples attention, so isn't it good that people are finally waking up to the financial crises that has been growing for years?

Also, Toku666 I don't see it as a bad thing that there were different views and messages being expressed. It was rather the media that distorted the messages so bad that it was hard to see what it was about.

The Republicans are all bent out of shape over taxes that most of them dont even have to pay, but they are A.O.K. with Bush (and Obama, as well) eviscerating the Constitution.

Worrying about misspending in 2008, the height of the election season, is hardly a sincere Conservative protest or dismay of 8 years of misspending. That being said, I wish the teabagging protestor's messages were more focused on oversight of federal funding then eliminating funding altogether. Oversight is the representation of the people that is in danger with such large sums of money at stake, and that shouldn't be a partisan issue.

What? Tea parties?

Sorry. I vaguely remember something about that from last week, but it was so convoluted and pointless and it vanished so quickly from the public consciousness that I'm struggling to recall why it was important.

Well, to my recollection, there were tea party protests during the Bush Administration, but were held by Libertarians angry over the Fed and very few Paultards would show up. It's just, this year, that the Paultards' protest was co-opted by Republicans angry over their white-conservative hegemony dying.

I was using the events of 2008 since that is when most people awoke from their thick haze of pop culture to come to realize that the current and past management of funding was flawed and out of control. Many of us have been concerned before then as well. The part of the Tea Party's I agree with were those ones trying to get support for HR 1207 which would require the first full audit of the Federal Reserve.

Thanks. Because what I was going for with my hastily written blurb on a titty site was to write something comparable to one of the greats of literature.

You are the epitome of ridiculous.