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2016 Postmortem

patrice

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31. Well they supposedly care so much about SMALL BUSINESSES that you'd think they'd pick up on

Reply to uriel1972 (Reply #29)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:41 AM

Feb 2013

those early tea partyers being small import/export merchants and small shop owners and such bitching about having to pick up more of the tab for the CROWN by paying a higher tax on the other non-crony teas.

I mean, they threw the tax-break tea in the freaking harbor, one wonders why the Tea Party doesn't ask themselves a question like, "Why do you suppose those early colonist shop-keepers and their friends threw TEA in the bay???"

I know, I know, curiosity just isn't their strong-suit.

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I’ve always thought..Tea Party was the dumbest fucking name for a political party ever. [View all] busterbrown Feb 2013 OP

I'll kick that! defacto7 Feb 2013 #1

K & R, but you're being a bit harsh.. Permanut Feb 2013 #2

the name is a lot better BainsBane Feb 2013 #3

They started out as "Tea Baggers" uriel1972 Feb 2013 #4

In my heart of hearts, they'll always be "Tea Baggers' to me NBachers Feb 2013 #6

Because they want to shove their junk down our throats? LiberalFighter Feb 2013 #13

I usually refer to them as the teabaggeratti lunatica Feb 2013 #14

That's right Politicalboi Feb 2013 #8

But Teabaggers think it is perfectly all right... Richard Cleary Feb 2013 #21

Yes! That was the best part! lexw Feb 2013 #9

I thought it was the funniest thing ever FunkyLeprechaun Feb 2013 #11

I always get a great big laugh out of how furiously mac56 Feb 2013 #15

Keith Olbermann Reminds the Teabaggers that They Coined Their Own Name Ian David Feb 2013 #27

Tax Evading Assholes Skittles Feb 2013 #5

What do you expect Mkap Feb 2013 #7

Think of them as the "Mad Haters Tea Party" intaglio Feb 2013 #10

Koch aready used the John Birch Society name. Sunlei Feb 2013 #12

Well, the real irony to me was..... Wounded Bear Feb 2013 #16

Taxed Enough Already........Bullshit!!! busterbrown Feb 2013 #18

That came later. They started off as the "Teabag Party"... JHB Feb 2013 #32

I still call them Teabaggers. Pisses them off. Richard Cleary Feb 2013 #17

They'll always be teabaggers to me. I like pissing them off. santamargarita Feb 2013 #19

Except they are not a political Party, they are just Republicans with funny hats Bluenorthwest Feb 2013 #20

+100 robertkdem1965_h89 Feb 2013 #24

Now, now union_maid Feb 2013 #22

A group of dumb people should have a dumb name BlueDemKev Feb 2013 #23

See below Ian Iam Feb 2013 #25

Douchebags are too big to hang from hats. n/t Ian David Feb 2013 #26

And the original tea party was a response to a TAX BREAK on ROYAL-East India Co Tea, right??? patrice Feb 2013 #28

History, or indeed any form of education does not seem to be there strength... nt uriel1972 Feb 2013 #29

Well they supposedly care so much about SMALL BUSINESSES that you'd think they'd pick up on patrice Feb 2013 #31

They are nothing but Republicans Mr.Bill Feb 2013 #30

"Know Nothings" was pretty stupid for a name. To be fair, though yellowcanine Feb 2013 #33

Plus now every time I hear the phrase tea party it's all I can think of budkin Feb 2013 #34