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Tea Party Platform

For a speciality tea, I would recommend Twinings Chai. For branded, regular black tea, Punjana and Nambarrie are good brews.

Oh, you were talking politics. Sorry: can't help you there.
 
commandlinegamer said:
For a speciality tea, I would recommend Twinings Chai. For branded, regular black tea, Punjana and Nambarrie are good brews.

Oh, you were talking politics. Sorry: can't help you there.
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Oh no, I know a bit about the rules of real tea parties! Don't burn the tomo sencha, handled cups are for black teas, if someone hates tea give them chai...

It's the politics I can't understand.
 
The tes party mob were originaly manufactured to kill healthcare reform. It is to be expected that beyond that their idiology will be rather defuse.
 
The Mutha said:
What are those of us who are allergic to tea to do?
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If you are actually allergic to the tea tree leaves themselves, and not common drying or preserving agents, then we have this class of teas called 'herbal' teas. The contain no teas, don't taste like tea, have few if any of the benefits of tea, taste terrible in general, but you can have them. 'Herbal' is a nice way of saying 'isn't anything like'.

Honestly though, pine needle 'tea' and other straight brews (such as golden rod and a few other green plants) can approximate a tea taste or just be good in their own rights. If you're really interested I have some links somewhere I can dig up.
 
tyr_13 said:
If you are actually allergic to the tea tree leaves themselves, and not common drying or preserving agents, then we have this class of teas called 'herbal' teas. The contain no teas, don't taste like tea, have few if any of the benefits of tea, taste terrible in general, but you can have them. 'Herbal' is a nice way of saying 'isn't anything like'.
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commonly mislabled as 'Tea' in vending machines made by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
 
I'm allergic to the tea leaves themselves... Herbal teas are for wimps. :p Give me Coke Classic any day! Maybe I'll start a soda/pop/coke party... In the words of Emily Latella "it could happen!"
 
tyr_13 said:
the 'Tea Party' (aka, tea baggers),

. . . . I'm sure there is a useful discussion to be had somewhere in there . . . .
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Nope. Your assurance would be misplaced.
As far as I can tell, the tea baggers are just incoherently mad about stuff. Suckered in, then disappointed by the religious right / conservative takeover of the Republicans, they are not quite foaming-at-the-mouth mad yet, but well on their way.
 
fishbob said:
Nope. Your assurance would be misplaced.
As far as I can tell, the tea baggers are just incoherently mad about stuff. Suckered in, then disappointed by the religious right / conservative takeover of the Republicans, they are not quite foaming-at-the-mouth mad yet, but well on their way.
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I think what is interesting is how these Tea Party nutbags are attempting to take over the structure of the GOP and how the GOP establishment is fighting to keep the "big tent" idea alive. This is really all going to play out in the GOP primaries in the spring, where a number of TP-supported candidates are going up against more moderate candidates supported by the GOP establishment - a perfect example is what's happening in the Florida Senate race.

It'll really be interesting to see what happens in those races where the TP-candidate loses in the GOP primary. My guess is that in at least a few cases the TP-er will run in the general election as an independent, much to the chagrin of the GOP.
 
MattusMaximus said:
I think what is interesting is how these Tea Party nutbags are attempting to take over the structure of the GOP and how the GOP establishment is fighting to keep the "big tent" idea alive. This is really all going to play out in the GOP primaries in the spring, where a number of TP-supported candidates are going up against more moderate candidates supported by the GOP establishment - a perfect example is what's happening in the Florida Senate race.

It'll really be interesting to see what happens in those races where the TP-candidate loses in the GOP primary. My guess is that in at least a few cases the TP-er will run in the general election as an independent, much to the chagrin of the GOP.
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My lord, as if "teabaggers" wasn't great enough already the acronym "TP" also has its humorous connotations.

Really unfortunate name for the movement, but then again - TP is pretty useful for other kinds of "movements" so maybe it'll work out for 'em...

SHAZAM!!
 
MattusMaximus said:
I think what is interesting is how these Tea Party nutbags are attempting to take over the structure of the GOP and how the GOP establishment is fighting to keep the "big tent" idea alive. This is really all going to play out in the GOP primaries in the spring, where a number of TP-supported candidates are going up against more moderate candidates supported by the GOP establishment - a perfect example is what's happening in the Florida Senate race.

It'll really be interesting to see what happens in those races where the TP-candidate loses in the GOP primary. My guess is that in at least a few cases the TP-er will run in the general election as an independent, much to the chagrin of the GOP.
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If the TPers do manage to take over the GOP, look for a LOT of Big Contributors to stop contributing. A number of the most prominent Tea Baggers are ranting about the evils of Bankers and Wall Streetas well as Govenrment, and that is not going to thrill a lot of Big Time contributors. They will figure the Baggers are just plain crazy, and the Democrats will be easier to deal with.
 
dudalb said:
They will figure the Baggers are just plain crazy,...
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I'm thinking they would be right. :p

I don't really want to label a political movement like that, because I assumed there was a kind of rational or logic that was at least internally consistent, but I can't find it.
 
tyr_13 said:
Can anyone sort this out? So far, all I'm left with is, 'pick and choose libertarianism and Dems are bad.'
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The tea party movement as a whole is bunch of Republican discontents who are trying hard to reframe their old Republican rhetoric so that it has at least some internally consistent logic (eg. small non-invasive government & big military & secure borders & bans on gay marriage).

Since such a task is impossible, they have to start dropping some old GOP planks but they cannot agree on which ones should go.
 
parky76 said:
Platform #1.

-it shall be a violation to bring Peppermint tea, to a Tea Party event, for Peppermint tea..is not really tea.

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But then, as anarchists everywhere have long known, proper tea is theft.
 
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