Tea Party movement



The Tea Party movement is an American political movement that supports the lowering of taxes. "Tea" stands for "Taxed enough already", meaning that they don't want to give the government their money, because they have so much of it - obviously.

The name refers to the Boston Tea Party wherein the American patriots dumped tea in to the sea to protest the British East India Company's monopoly on tea and taxation without representation.

What they did in contrast
In 2009, Conservatives - completely missing the point of the Boston Tea Party - decided to buy a bunch of tea and throw it in government-funded public parks in order to protest taxes, which they don't understand are necessary for society to function... and to have parks. While tax rates paid in 2009 were set entirely by Republicans several years prior, Conservatives all of a sudden decided that taxation with representation is 1773-style tyranny and that they should throw tea on the ground to protest Democrats and their taxes. These people are geniuses.

Controversy
Or as reverse Conservapedia would put it: "Tea Party Protestors America-hating xenophobes?!"

On March 20, Representative André Carson said that as he walked from the House office building with Representative John Lewis, amid chants of "Kill the bill" (obviously not referring to Bill O'Reilly) he heard the "n-word at least 15 times". Use of the other F-word was also heard during that day.