The GOP appears to be doing all it can to keep the Tea Party happy.

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We are thus richer because we have energy and we have happy old folk replete with tea.

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Why be happy with a mere 100 flavors of Snapple iced tea when the human mind can concoct up to twice that many?

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Then, when I had finished that, I poured myself more tea, and because I was still hungry, and because I really did feel happy, sitting there in the quiet, watching the snow, I sneaked first one slice, then another, then all of the toast I had made for Marie, and ate it with the jam while it was still warm.

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When a Tea Party group goes off the rails like this, major news outlets are more than happy to use them as yet another example of a movement out of touch with mainstream America and for that matter, common sense.

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