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Like the Occupy Wall Street crowd, the tea-partiers did not have much by way of detailed policy when they started.

But tea-partiers, who tend to be elderly themselves, are rather keen on that bit of big government.

And this was only the latest of a string of successes for candidates supported by the tea-partiers.

The fact is America is now too complicated a place to accommodate the simple verities peddled by the Tea Partiers.

When he voted in favour of a controversial jobs bill in February the tea-partiers who had helped to elect him accused him of betrayal.

Obama entered office. As a group, Tea Partiers profess an almost single-minded determination to cut government spending and limit taxation.

But they needed to win over Tea Partiers, who claim that they were criticizing Dubya's profligacy long before President Obama took office.

Tens of thousands of tea-partiers gathered in Washington at an event organised by Glenn Beck, a conservative broadcaster.

More significant than the Tea Partiers' willingness to push things to the edge was their ultimate judgment not to go over it.

She adopted the trappings of student government kids, alternative potheads, debate geeks, jocks, partiers, and ultimately mean cheerleaders.

Wearing white to symbolize good luck, partiers flock to the beach to offer gifts to the sea goddess and drink champagne.

IT IS not hard, if you really try, to find good things to say about America's tea-partiers.

Tea Partiers are constantly talking about "restoring honor, " getting back to America's roots, and "taking back" their country.

The rage of America's tea-partiers will not abate simply because some of their favoured candidates were elected in 2010.

But many of the tea-partiers have invented a strangely ahistorical version of it.

Florida's Republican primary in August will be dominated by conservatives and tea-partiers, since only registered Republicans can vote.

Having established a foothold in Congress, the tea-partiers and their patrons are already on guard against betrayal.

America's tea-partiers are the opposite: they exhale fiscal probity through every pore.

The New York Times has published research suggesting that tea-partiers are mostly richer and better-educated than the average.

Now Tea Partiers are determined to kill any immigration plan that involves a pathway to citizenship.

The differences between Tea Partiers and the Occupy Wall Street protesters are greater than their similarities.

American revolutionaries are reincarnated as tea-partiers.

Therefore, opponents argue, allowing people to sport these plates is tantamount to allowing the tea-partiers to advertise on state property.

That means embracing tea-partiers even if they defeat established Republicans in primaries.

The tea-partiers have produced a ten-point "Contract from America" they would like all candidates to sign.

Tea Partiers blame big government for the country's economic problems.

There may even be common ground amongst the Tea Partiers and the Occupy Wall Street people.

The government, unions, liberals, Tea-Partiers, businessmen combined cannot reverse this trend.

But Ms Kremer and her tea partiers have heard such talk somewhere before.

00 p. m. , relaxing: Several partiers are in the pool or outdoor hot tub giving their brains a break.

The media have a habit of lampooning the tea-partiers as ultra-conservatives and closet racists.

In short, the tea-partiers are still looking for their revolutionary.

Unease about deficits and the "jobless recovery" were factors behind the increasing clout of tea-partiers in America.

He is too moderate for anti-tax tea-partiers.

A car-dealer sought to attract tea partiers in a bid against him but, after little progress, switched to a House race.

The tea partiers are about 98% white.

Tea-partiers know that by dividing the right they are in danger of helping the Democrats.

After a couple of paragraphs berating the tea partiers, Folbre gets down to explaining some of what the Social Forums believe:

Tea-partiers dump another victim in the metaphorical harbour