I don't get this whole "Tea" party thing.

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  1. Buzz Killington

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    Are they just a bunch of dumb old white people mad about being ruled by a strong, young black man?
     
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    Bush spent a lot too!
     
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    Whatever you do, DON'T call them "tea baggers." I've learned from personal experience that they get quite irate over that (and believe me, they seem plenty pissed off as it is).

    Ironically, the typical "Tea Partier" hates both tea and Massachusetts.
     
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  4. Buzz Killington

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    alot of seem like white suburban trash. bunch of old people with too much time on their hands. pretty scary. most of them are really stupid. all they say is "small government!!!!" without anything more.
     
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    Tea Bagger is a fair term. The movement started out with people sending tea bags to their congressmen.
     
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    Tea Baggers!
     
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    I have a theory that within america, there are so many little pockets of freaks like this...guidos are another one, and every race. just a bunch of fuckers....this will all end in race wars!
     
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    So, anti-Obama or pro?
     
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    From what I get, Tea Partiers aren't necessarily anti-Obama/Democrat. They're anti-Big Government. They're anti-A Ruling Class That Doesn't Listen to Who Elected Them. It just happens that President Obama is the leader of the country and pushing for the things they don't like. And they're using their right to assemble and protest to assemble and protest.
     
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    I have a vague feeling you're being ironic
     
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    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a82cfe04-10f5-11df-9a9e-00144feab49a.html

    Moody’s warns US of credit rating fears

    By Michael Mackenzie in New York and Gillian Tett in London
    Published: February 3 2010 19:53 | Last updated: February 3 2010 19:53

    Moody’s Investors Service fired off a warning on Wednesday that the triple A sovereign credit rating of the US would come under pressure unless economic growth was more robust than expected or tougher actions were taken to tackle the country’s budget deficit.

    In a move that follows intensifying concern among investors over the US deficit, Moody’s said the country faced a trajectory of debt growth that was “clearly continuously upward”.

    Steven Hess, senior credit officer at Moody’s, said the deficits projected in the budget outlook presented by the Obama administration outlook this week did not stabilise debt levels in relation to gross domestic product.

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    “Using the general government measure, including state and local governments as well as the federal government, which is used internationally, this ratio would be well over 100 per cent in 2020.”

    (more at the link)
     
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    I think they're the conservative version of scum-sucking hippie protesters.
     
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    I like green tea and mint tea.

    Red tea is nice, too.

    Yeah.
     
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    We need to start our of faction. Kind of like the "bluetooth headset group" from 24 where we just kind of kick ass.
     
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    I tried pointing that out to the ones I inadvertently offended with the term. They were still offended. *shrug*

    As a liberal I'm always inclined to respect how any group wishes to self-identify. But as a liberal I'm also naturally inclined to think they are assholes idiots who chose a symbol with comically unfortunate undertones. My compromise is only to call them "teabaggers" behind their backs. *double shrug*
     
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    The undertone being like the Boston Tea Party, where they dumped tea in the harbor to protest excess taxation?
     
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    Nah. "Teabagging" is also a sexual act where you hang the scrotum on the face or in the mouth of your partner (dunking it like a tea bag, I suppose). I'd never actually been made aware of what the term meant until I called a Teabagger (the political kind) the name and they took umbrage, explaining the sexual definition.
     
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    I'm not especially fond of the Tea Party nonsense, but frankly, I'm a bit surprised that there aren't more young people involved in protesting the insane levels of government spending going on in Washington. After all, once us older farts are dead and buried, it's you guys who will be bearing the brunt of the massive national debt.
     
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    Yep, and it's a bottom-up phenomenon with no real leaders. That leads to a diffuse message and why it's so hard to define simply. It's different things to different people. Mostly, however, it's protesting the encroaching role of government in our lives. At least that's my take.
     
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