Would love a tea party like they have in England. Tea and cucumber sandwitches with good real tea. Thanks for asking.

We haven't had one here, but I might go to one. Might be interesting.

I'd go for the scones and clotted cream. Nothing else, tho.

Had one here In Albuquerque today too.Lots of people. Nope,not me either!
Now a tea party with scones and tea,yep,count me in!

LOVE scones...

Had no desire to attend the one in my area.Too lefty and the local cops are dumb at crowd control. I didn't want to risk getting tasered or worse.

Would have loved to attend the one in the next county but unfortunately I had to be somewhere else at the tiem it started and by the time I would have gotten there they would have been wrapping up for the day.

I went to one two towns away a few months ago and if Anna gets fisnshed with a tournament she is in tomorrow I plan to go to another one about 40 miles away.

I've been to one tea luncheon at a place called Miss C's Sippy. I went with a couple of friends. We went to check out the place whose name is almost like my screen name. It was pretty good.

Do tea bags attend?

I would go to one if there was one held in my area.

No but we drove by one last night, on Long Island, on our way to a doctor's appointment for my husband. They had lots of people and flags. I'm not a Tea Partier. I am a proud Demnocrat, and supporter of my President.

Interesting responses here. I could have gone to the one in Boston, but prefer the scones and cucumber sandwich variety myself. I too am proud to be a Democrat and support our President. People are very impatient.

If I went I'd be there to protest their muddled-thinking grousing, but why add to this 'sound and fury signifying nothing'?

I have a couple of friends who went. I had to work. I'm proud to be neither right nor left but in the middle. I support the President but not everything he does, says, or stands for. Nothing wrong with voices being heard.

I thought about going to one here last week.

I am bi-partisan, don't give a rat's behind about political affiliations. We did have a tea party here, but this is a democratic area so it was not well attended. Sadly I think that people either feel helpless or they just don't care.

suzieque -- I'm all for our freedom of speech. What I hear from the 'tea party' is screech. What are they FOR? Where were the complaints when we were in the 'bubble', with a government growing faster than ever before? Did they protest spending our youth and our money for the last seven years in Iraq? Now the 'bubble' has burst, and we have 'adults' stamping their feet in a tantrum because 'the government' hasn't 'made it all well' immediately.

IMO these are well-meaning people being used by politicians who see rabble-rousing as a means to get their places back at the trough. It's always the same: Throw THOSE rascals out! Put MY rascals in!

I had to work otherwise I would have gone to one.

Chisue: This what the Tea Party is for:

Core Values

Fiscal Responsibility

Constitutionally Limited Government

Free Markets

Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such runaway deficit spending as we now see in Washington DC compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government's interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.

Better be careful guys.LOL

Very well said Angela.

Here is a link to the actual platform. I had to increase the print size on my monitor to 125% in order to read it.

On the news last night we watched a report from either D.C. or Boston. The Tea Partiers were out with their signs, etc., and those who came to "crash" the party were also there. The two sides were talking to each other pretty vigorously. True Americana!

Some people believe that the movement began in earnest over a year ago on CNBC, with Rick Santelli's famous rant. Google Rick Santelli's rant and you can watch him. From, I believe, the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange.

Here is a link that might be useful: The platform in detail

Geeeeesh, what did I click on??? Hot Topics? There is no need for enemies in other countries. We have enough fighting among Americans.I think it is sad. JMO Dottie

Tea and sandwitches are so much better. Eat, drink and clean up/throw away.

Great job, Angela!

Blessings,
Haley

I'd rather spend the day getting a colonoscopy.

Dotmom, I think we're just having a conversation ...

Jenn! ROFLMBO!

Yep, just a conversation.

Suzieque, It wasn't this discussion I was referring to, it is the people running out country, plus the so-called all news channels. It is them verses us. Peaceful, RESPECTFUL, discussion, then compromise from concerned citizens has gone the way of the stage coach. Everybody thinks they are right, the other guy is wrong, and if there is a discussion, it usually gets down right nasty. I think it is sad. That is what I was referring to when I said fighting among Americans. Again, JMO Dottie

I wonder how many people that atted these tea parties even know what the core values that Angela posted consist of. Too many times these kind of gatherings border on extremism, IMO.

My Mom and Sis went to the one in Chicago. Mom said someone had a sign written in red paint to symbolize blood "KILL BUSH". For pete's sake, what does Bush have to do with anything these days!

Is is gone to a tea party or went?
As in have you gone? Or I went to .....
I think it would sound better saying "Anyone gone to a tea party?"
My journalism teacher was the Chief of Grammar Police.

Chisue, someimes I just love you!!!

Jennmonkey, you're a stitch!

I haven't gone to one, but would have liked to. I think it would be interesting. And while I don't doubt that there are attendees who screech and rant and rave crazily ...I imagine there are more who don't.

I do believe the news picks out the extremeists to focus on.

{{!gwi}}

I used to go to little girl tea parties!

Great reply Angela.

Not with Sarah Palin....

Chisue, very well said. Where were they the previous eight years?

No thanks.

LOL @ jennmonkey

Not me....I think they're all a bunch of radicals, trying to cause problems....I have friends of the opposite party and I honestly don't think they know what they're talking about...Haven't a clue what the government is doing....
I might not agree with everything the president does but he's our president and I do respect him.....
Now give me a good cup of tea and some scones or cookies and I'd be there in a flash.....

Oooh, I want to go to Glenda's tea party. (We know the food would be dee-licious!)

We all want those things, Angela, but the mess is made and it must be cleaned up!Obama didn't make the mess, he's trying to fix it. HOW EXACTLY WOULD THE TEA PARTY FIX THINGS? Please post facts, not opinions, and nothing from Fox News. Even Rupert Murdock is distancing himself. Sarah Palin offers nothing specific, just platitudes. If there are specific planks in the platform we can discuss, tell us what they are.

Did you, personally, support the unfunded wars of the last administration? It's time to pay for them now. How would the tea party do it?

Do you actually believe it is American not to insure everyone?

I don't for one minute believe that Teabaggers have any concern for "our children's and grandchildren's future." They are too selfish to give a rat's a$$ about anything but themselves.

If I get sent to Disney or my response gets pulled, so much for free speech. I know where Hot Topics is, but this was posted here. I believe we are all adults here and should be free to speak our minds. I really would like answers to my questions; my SIL and my neighbor just recite the same things I hear on TV, and they are not specific. Maybe someone here can tell me.

This may not have started it out as a hot topic but it has become one so knock it off.

Hi Glenda. I went to our tea party. Sarah's mom was there. Both she and Sarah's dad are really nice people.

When they talk about "free markets", usually the way that they expect them to be controlled is by "competition".

Only. None of these stupid "regulations", please.

The corporations love competition among their suppliers.

They love it among their cutomers, as well.

They hate it on their own level - squeeze out the competitors, buy 'em up, or whatever you need do!!

But - get rid of 'em!

In most areas of U.S. business, industry (what's left of it), finance, etc. there are a few major corporations that carry on most of the business.

And the "free market" becomes pretty well whatever they say it is!

I believe that the malicious bankers in New York have caused your country far more damage than Al Qaida (or however they spell it).

And, lacking regulation, they'll keep on doing it.

Up here, when the complaining about the price of gasoline gets loud enough, they have a research project ...

... which *always* concludes that, yes, there is competition in the pricing of gasoline!

And the report is believed by probably about a half dozen or so of the 350,000 residents of this area.

ole joyful

OJ is right. Government degulation in the banking industry was the root cause of the 'bundled mortgage obligations' debacle that created the bubble. Banks' refusals to USE govenrment money to help underwater borowers is stretching out the foreclosure mess and continuing to depress the RE market.

Lobbies will continue to run America for the forseeable future. The election process is fataly flawed. No one can run without becoming beholden to the lobbies that fund the campaign.

Teabag tea is undrinkable and there are no leaves to read.