"We realized that just because we could talk the language and drink all the tea, it didn't mean that we were going to get the deals, " he says.
But this early show of political maturity will demonstrate to independents that the freshmen and tea party Republicans they elected in November aren't the yahoos of media lore.
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But the Republicans also claim to speak for ordinary Americans, many of whom are supporters of the Tea Party movement, and who aren't millionaires and have no prospect of ever becoming so.
As outside-the-establishment movements like the tea party, Occupy Wall Street and Ron Paul followers are showing, the two-party system isn't big enough to absorb the concerns and passions of hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists.
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We're thrilled, General, that you came up with this brilliant idea. (Laughter.) And we hope that you don't spike the tea until after we leave. (Laughter.) But we are thrilled to have you here.
Seki and her daughter, Hiroko, couldn't wait to have tea at the Peninsula Hotel.
"Green tea is the cure-all one week, and the next the data isn't good, " says nutritionist Linda Chio, who works at the New York University Clinical Cancer Center.
She and Enos had a fight over one of the family tea sets she wanted to take with her, and he hasn't spoken to her since that I know of.
He didn't just put his name on the Arnold Palmer iced-tea-and-lemonade drink he invented it.
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You know, not to discuss my age, but I was little then, but it strikes me that the conversations about the Civil Rights bill probably weren't, you know, all tea and crumpets.
If we haven't heard much about the Tea Party recently it is because they have won, and they are writing the script.
They're not just angry, they are organizing in a new way into the Tea Party, a movement that confusingly, has nothing to do with tea and isn't a party either.
It isn't that the beautiful people and their followers suddenly decided that Jews are not their cup of tea (or rail of cocaine).
The Tea Party influence means that serious centrist candidates like Jon Huntsman don't stand a chance, and many others like him will have been discouraged from standing.
I've been to many Tea Party rallies and whilst the hostility is strong, I have never detected overt racism, although I guess people wouldn't come out and say it.
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