Dang it! It is not the Tea Party! It is the TEA Party. TEA is an acronym for crying out loud! It stands for Taxed Enough Already.
I don’t know if it is intentional or just ignorance that causes people to call it the Tea Party.
Oh, I'm sorry, do you own the copyright? Or are you Rick Santelli, who coined the idea from the floor of the CBOT, with his rant on CNBC?
Santelli called for a "Chicago Tea Party" when referring to the Obammunist's mortgage bailout program. Here's the URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-Jw-5Kx8k
Tea Parties are about more than just taxes. They're about re-kindling the spirit of the Boston Tea Party, which is what Santelli was referring to when he said he was going to hold a Chicago Tea Party (not some cute, contrived acronym). Tea Parties are about opposing government tyranny in all its forms, taxes being only one.
Furthermore, "Taxed Enough Already" didn't appear until a month or so after the first Tea Parties, in February. I attended two Tea Parties, one in February and another in March of '09, before seeing a "Taxed Enough Already" sign at the April 15th Tea Party.
So long story short, I don't know who appointed you the official Tea Party arbiter, but I'll call it whatever the hell I want.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Well I am getting letters daily from Marco Rubio cleaming he is a Tea/TEA Party candidate. However he aided and abetted illegal immigration in the Florida House.
How can Rubio be a Tax Enough Already candidate when a s**tload of my tax money is going to illegals? Crappy RINO FL GOP.