The Boston Tea Party was a protest staged in 1773 against the British Government.\u00a0 The colonists were protesting taxation without representation.<\/p>\n
In 2008 elections in the United States, the voter demographics more closely represented the demographics of the United States citizenship than any election in US history.<\/p>\n
Today large groups of people across the country are staging “tea party” (remember taxation without representation) protests against a government that is more representative of the population than any in this country’s history.<\/p>\n
Adding spice to the irony – the term “teabagging” that the protesters are using to describe their own actions is a euphemism for a sexual act.<\/p>\n
giggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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