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The Common Thread: A Bird’s Eye View of the TEA Party Movement

By Paul Ibbetson
Thursday, September 3, 2009

The TEA Party movement, which started for most as a small grassroots effort by disenchanted Americans to voice their disapproval with the government, is now growing to epic proportions. The movement has transcended the bounds of simply being events that people have heard about in faraway places, to events happening in almost every town on any given day. In fact, for TEA Party goers, it’s no longer a case of trying to make a single event, but how many events can you actually make.

With that said, even though the growth of the TEA Party movement has expanded to the size that even “Bagdad Bobâ€