The British Parliament passed the Tea Act. The act removed a tax on tea entering Britain, making it cheaper, yet kept a tax on tea entering the American colonies. This was another example of taxation tyranny to the colonists. As we all know, this led to Americans dumping tea into Boston Harbor.

Hooray for the Tea Party, this is what they aim to defeat, tyrannous taxation by the government for the government!

Clearly the tea party is a sock puppet and the Koch brothers the puppetmasters.

Here we go again passing the blame along to the not so guilty party as the ones that allow manipulation to happen here in the first place, our leadership!

FAIL!

Maybe that tea party was for that purpose. Todays tea party is a joke. It is a majority racists who can't stand the idea of a black president.

Their legitimacy hasn't been established at an level yet. Even their vote ins in congress are proving to be complete baffoons.

yes, but almost EVERY member of congress is a complete buffoon.

They resemble the tories(tory being british slang for conservative)

They treat the poor like dirt,and lick the boots of the rich hopeing for some table scraps.

i guess nobody ever thought that it took then a month or two longer to get to the US back then either... it was a tax that was used to pay the english officials in the colonies, the india trading company had to charge a bit more for the time it took to get there and back...and the colonies still paid for all the tea that was dumped into the harbor about a moth later..the colonists were mad because none of the money was going to them, all to the english

I am almost in agreement with you on that one, especially this congress

The tea party is just a fraud designed to misplace anger. Many people are angry and rightly so.

It wasnt the government that screwed the country it was the rich with their speculation. The government isnt driveing gas prices up its the speculators like the Koch brothers.

The only institution that is left to chalenge corperate america is the government so logicly they want to destroy that too.

Corperate america owns the media, busted the unionsand now has their sights set on the last thing that can stand in thier way, YOUR GOVERNMENT.

maybe so, but doesn't obama open up our oil supplies, and drop the price? instead, he bans deep water drilling in the US, and the turns around and gives Brazil 10 billion dollars to drill in the deep waters in the gulf... he could boost American production, but he doesn't

Ever see that insurance commercial where the guy and girl are on the park bench and she has that giant boulder over her head and as the insurance guy talks the boulder shrinks? Well we have that boulder over our heads and as long as the democRATS are in charge that boulder will on get bigger. The Tea Party has the hammer and chisel!

why would the koch brothers want the gas prices higher? wouldn't that cost them more money?... lost revenues, shipping costs...

*only get bigger

And Democrats think spending more will fix the problem!

In 2008, Koch called attention to itself for “contango” oil market manipulation. A commodity market is said to be in contango when future prices are expected to rise, that is, when demand is expected to outstrip supply. Big banks and companies like Koch employ a contango strategy by buying up oil and storing it in massive containers both on land and offshore to lock in the oil for sale later at a set price. In December of 2008, Koch leased “four supertankers to hold oil in the U.S. Gulf Coast to take advantage of rising prices in the months ahead.” Writing about Koch’s contango efforts to artificially drive down supply, Fortune magazine writer Jon Birger noted they could be raising “gasoline prices by anywhere from 20 to 40 cents a gallon” at the time. Speaking with the Business Times, Koch executive David Chang even boasted that falling crude prices in 2008 provided an opportunity remove oil from the market for future delivery:

CHANG: The drop in crude oil prices from more than US$145 per barrel in July 2008 to less than US$35 per barrel in December 2008 has presented opportunities for companies such as ours. In the physical business, purchases of crude oil from producers and storing offshore in tankers allow us to benefit from the contango market where crude prices are higher for future delivery than for prompt delivery.

A recent presentation from Koch Supply & Trading, the Koch unit devoted to selling financial products, confirms that Koch has taken advantage of a lax regulatory environment to aggressively trade on future oil prices. “The return of speculators to Oil, the ‘macro trade’ is alive and well,” reads slide 36:

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/13/koch-industries-price-gouging/

Oh I forgot to add they are greedy swine who do not care for the greater good of the country. They dont care if you have to choose between fuel and food or fuel and medicine. All they care about is money.

The people of this country get what they deserve for voting in the criminals they do and then keeping those criminal employed term after term!

So how do you hurt a rich person? Take their power away!