Aaaah the TEA BAGS

[Oversea Visitor]

My my this ideas have legs.

Imagine the SENATE being flooded with TEA BAGS from 280 million Americans

Ok maybe 280 million less 20% backwash

How amazing, the TEA BAGS vote maybe drive Dieblod nuts.

Whee just before the SUPER do in November.

Of course the REPUKES will cringe in horror as TEA BAGS after TEA BAGS rolls in.

Maybe the DEMS start growing TITANIUM spine.

Boxer can host a tea party for all in SENATE with all the TEA BAGS.

Maybe invite all the MASS MEDIA to tea party too.

[Ecumenist]

1. Sign me up. I've plenty of tea bags....

I know literally DOZENS of tea laden and DISGRUNTLED americans who would be DEEE-lighted to send a few Liptons to Washington.

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Yeah

Being seeing lots of TEA BAGS post.

But they need a destination

SENATE looks cool.

Can not be ignore

Also very good communication of message

BUCK UP or BUCK OUT


TEA PARTY ANYONE :rofl:

[Suich]

2. I'm all for it, however,

with all the new laws Homeland Security has come up with, I'm not sure how to do it...unless you send a whole box of tea, loose or bags.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. No cheating

One person one vote
One person one TEA BAG

Gee a box of tea.
Can not we have TEA PARTY with the leftover :rofl:

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Ray Taliaferro (KGO radio) ran with this idea back in 2004...

It was suggested by some concerned people to just send empty tea bag (unfold and dump tea, than refold). Not only would the symbolic statement be made, but thrify people could still use the tea.

March 15, 2004

Turning Tyranny into Tea-ranny

by Ray Taliaferro
Graduates of fifth grade should know the immediate goal of the Boston Tea Party was to protest taxation without representation, not to dress up like a bunch of Native Americans and run around a ship. It was a protest done right; a delicate balance of symbolism and panache that was destined to make the history books. What that fifth grader should also understand, hopefully, is that the over-arching goal of the tea toss was bigger than taxes. It was to declare what has now become a fundamental ideology of the United States: we will NOT accept tyranny imposed upon American people by any government, foreign or domestic. King George III got the message loud and clear, as did the rest of the world.

But if the Bostonians of 1773 could see us now, it wouldn’t just be tea they’d hurl over the sides of that ship.

We’ve been living under the tyranny of the Bush administration for over three years now. Disenfranchised American voters in Florida were taxed, but their vote never counted. Gay Americans are taxed, but their love is not acknowledged. Hundreds of Americans have been imprisoned in Guantanamo, but their rights have never been recognized. And in what is the most egregious act of all, the President misrepresented a threat that didn’t exist in Iraq, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Americans and thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians. Two hundred and thirty one years ago we stood up to the tyranny of one King George, and now it’s time to do the same to another. We must TEA BAG BUSH!

Americans must send a message to the White House that we will no longer stand idly by while all of our rights are eroded by a group of power mad neo-cons. The administration is already in hot water, and now it’s time to add the tea. I’m calling for a national campaign to send tea bags to the White House en masse, as many as you can, for as long as you can. Send one bag a week or one box a week; send one bag a day or ten bags a day, from now until November 2. The Bush administration will soon realize that the public demands a regime change here at home.

Now, it’s possible the President may not understand the symbolism, but hopefully Karl Rove or one of his other henchmen will explain it to him very slowly, using small words. But if you’re still worried he might not understand, there are plenty of pretty color pictures of the Boston Tea Party you can print out and stuff in the envelope along with your tea. For added impact, I recommend sending a nice im-Peach flavored brew, but it’s your call.

The important thing is that you tell your lovers and tell your friends, and that they tell their lovers and their friends, that it’s time to TEA BAG BUSH! Think of the quizzical look on Bush and Cheney’s face when millions upon millions of tea bags inundate the White House. If a picture is worth a million words, that look on Bush’s face is surely worth a million tea bags.

It’s time to make our Bostonian-American ancestors proud again; it’s time to show them that the principles they fought for are alive and well in today’s America. Let us turn tyranny into tea-ranny. It’s time to TEA BAG BUSH!

Ray Taliaferro has been broadcasting to the entire West Coast on KGO radio in San Francisco for almost thirty years. His show can be heard from 1am-5am on KGO AM 810, and around the world at http://www.kgoam810.com /

[tech3149]

5. This idea could actually could have some influence.

The biggest problems are the slow delivery to DC offices (thx anthrax guy)and what verbal message should be delivered with it. I love the idea of a Boxer Tea Party. It's worth pinning down the details.

[longship]

6. We are forming a group who is going to do this in a *BIG* way.

We'll eventually need people to help, but right now we have four DUers who are going to get this off the ground, hopefully in a big way. We will keep DU people informed of what's happening.

Our intention is not just sending a few hundred tea bags, but maybe thousands and thousands of them, hopefully millions. The only way this happens is if we have help from media, etc. We're putting together a plan to do precisely this.

Project X lives.

[Oversea Visitor]

9. Just talk to Helen Thomas

After all roses are not free :rofl:

[earth mom]

12. Are you serious or think this is a joke?

I don't get your post. :shrug:

[Oversea Visitor]

13. Haha

I think she friendly to DU

Was a DU effort to send here roses.

Got coverage on some media too

I think if one drop her a line on this effort by DU she help to put some legs on it.

Gee me sorry see star by name and post count thoughts you know the background.

[Oversea Visitor]

15. Ok me need change glasses

No star by your name.

[earth mom]

17. The difference is not the star, but that I don't find this funny AT ALL.

There is incredible symbolism in this idea. I hope we can make it fly and show the criminals in DC that we are sick of their crap! And we aren't going to stand for having a dictator or king forced upon us.

Meanwhile...you find it funny. Why?

[Oversea Visitor]

19. Gee if you still dont get it you never will

I have already explain.

Maybe you did not know about Roses send to Helen Thomas.

[earth mom]

20. I know about the roses sent to Helen Thomas.

What's funny about it? Nothing. It was a very nice gesture.

So, I'll ask again: what's so funny?

[Oversea Visitor]

23. First

we must learn about how to laugh :clown:
Then we must learn how not to drive ourself :crazy:
And learn how to :party:

Ok :rofl:

[earth mom]

7. Anyone have the link to Swamp Rats original post?

I think this could be a great idea! :evilgrin:

[Suich]

10. There's this:

Scroll down to the Lipton Tea box!

[earth mom]

11. Sorry, but you did not post a link.

:shrug:

[lisainmilo]

14. Check it out

Go to: www.johnlisainmilo.com , its a simple web page but gives you the information. thanks for your support.....New American Revolution....:dem:

[earth mom]

16. Thanks, though I just found it in the other thread.

BTW-Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Suich]

18. Sorry...here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1813926

...check posts by lisainmilo

:hi:

[earth mom]

22. Thanks!

:hi:

[Bucky]

21. Great idea! Let's start "tea-bagging" members of Congress today!

If you don't get that joke, then please pretend it isn't a joke and carry on with your life.

[Oversea Visitor]

24. Thanks

:hug:

On a PM Swamprat saying he have rough day on DU.
Wonder why people roughing him up so much for his art
and also different of opinion on Lebanon.

I learn to be happy when I am sad
and sad when I am happy :crazy: :rofl:

[zippy890]

25. Hey OV! thanks for your post

It makes me happy to see your post:)
always makes me smile, and we all so need to smile
and see the humour of things,

:loveya: OV and
:hug: to swampy

[Oversea Visitor]

26. Hey hello

:hug:

Sometimes hard to smile :(

Me see big fight NOv

Dumb neocon got back to wall

Sure get desperate

Maybe do funny stuns

They doom and they know it

But now they stared at their stupidity

And say need magic trick to avoid punishment

Confucius say "Man who stand near cliff sure to fall"

But I say " Man who dig deep pit with no way to climb out not going anywhere but down "

Me figure bush smart

He drill for oil, keep drilling and drilling
Aaaah but drill right through world ..... gee no oil
Does he stop
No NO ..... there oil on the moon. :rofl:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

27. What? We speak like Tarzan now?

Me? SR is spot on.