In 1773, a group of Bostonians who objected to being forced to pay a tax on tea by the British Parliament, which they didn’t get to elect, boarded a ship carrying tea and threw the cargo into Boston harbour. The Boston Tea Party became an iconic example of the principle of ‘no taxation without representation’, the rallying call of the US revolution.
Now, incensed that the newly elected Obama administration is restoring the higher tax rates on the richest 2% of Americans, supposedly grassroots groups across America (actually, it’s all a front) have stared holding ‘teabag parties’. They drop tea bags in rivers or mail them to the White House. They call it teabagging. They use phrases like ‘teabag the Whitehouse’, ‘teabag Obama’. April 15, tax day, is going to be a day of teabagging from sea to shining sea.
Teabagging, honestly.
(warning mildly offensive language in the vids)
(Public Address has heaps more videos)
What happened to the Republicans’ legendary PR might? Karl Rove must be rolling in his coffin full of Transylvanian soil.
– Kiwi in New York
(PS.You’ve got to love this teabagging woman with the sign ‘Remember: dissent is patriotic’. Yeah, it is, but they weren’t saying that when Bush was in power)
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