The History of the Tea Party in Four Minutes

Slate's Power Recap of the movement that shaped an election.

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[SunmanHD]

I feel sorry for you, America. I know you've got alot of smart politicians but it's assholes like Glenn Beck that stop people from visiting the hospital. If it makes you feel any better, australia is run by a ginger woman.

[MaribelTipton]

The TEA PARTY began DECEMBER 16 2007 with Ron Paul's 5 million money bomb. Look it up!

[georgerthewes]

Funny how tea baggers know little of the true tea party. lol

[sonnybrown]

@MaribelTipton Seriously. It baffles me how little people know about this one huge event. 6.4 Million raised that day.

[sonnybrown]

What about the real start of the Tea Party durring the Presidential election in 07? Ron Pauls supporters staged the biggest fund raising event in history raising 6.4 MILLION in one day on the anniversary of the original Tea Party. The event that took place in different cities around the US where we threw boxes marked with "Iraq War" and "Federal Debt" and "the FED" into bodies of water (then pulled them out). That was THE REAL start of the Tea Party before it was co-opted by the far right.

[Mr30scratch]

The tea party has been corrupted by the other side of the political fence. It is just the same back and forth shit with whose is in power.

[KayoteThunder]

@crossland1872 People don't want fascism.

[crossland1872]

Good Info, vote Tea-party 2012!

[blortner]

@pkpapers It was George W Bush who suspended habeus corpus and trashed the Constitution with the so-called Patriot Act. Sadly, President Obama didn't get rid of it and that's the really scary part. Jefferson thought it extremely important. Today they can take an American citizen away and keep him/her in prison forever without bringing a single charge against them. That's never been the case through all of our history.

[blortner]

@doctorsizzle The traditional story is wrong. I don't know if you can see my comment above (or where it is now) but the original Tea Party of 1773 was actually a rebellion against the corporate power of the East India Tea Company. Search Youtube for Thom Hartmann Tea Party. There's an account by one of the men who was in it, the only eyewitness account known.