But the biggest difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is that the Tea Party is bound by a common set of values based on freedom, responsibility and property rights.
Benefit Corporations were created for companies like Honest Tea, whose brand equity is tied to the trust built with loyal consumer-fans that Honest Tea is a company that cares about their health and the health of the environment.
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Even though it is pretty clear that the shooter was not a Tea Party fanatic, it is becoming clear that some commentators are using the shooting as a pretext to further marginalize ideas with which they disagree.
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Their other choice is to recognize that the philosophy which animates the Tea Party is inseparable from the American people, and that fighting it is pointless.
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That does not mean, however, that the tea party is winning the war even if it has lost a few battles.
Or consider how Honest Tea, the organic tea company that is an independently run wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, combined web video technology and a thought-provoking purchase experiment to cut through the clutter in the over-crowded beverage market.
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My hosts at Majdac farm show me a list of a dozen different plants - including balm mint, dandelion, dog rose, thyme, nettles and two types of violet - that make the delicious tisane that is offered instead of tea.
His 127-acre farm, where bendy old oaks give way to neat rows of waist-high tea bushes, is the only place in America that produces tea commercially.
What is important to recognize is that in these negotiations the above discussed Tea Party solutions can still be in play.
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What Mr Kingston's loss showed is that for all that tea-party energy, there is life in the old porkers yet.
There is a stark reality that has come about because of the imposition of the sequester, the home run, the tea party victory, and that is that these cuts are being implemented across agencies and across the country.
I'd take that as an indication that alcoholic tea is capturing more of the beer market.
However, as you point out, one of the problems the Republicans are going to have to face is that some of the candidates supported by the Tea Party aren't necessarily the most electable.
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On May 8, last week, the IRS announced two major changes in the Tax Exempt and Government Entitities Division, which is the division that would be investigating the right wing Tea Party organizations.
The second important development from the debt ceiling battle is that the speaker has managed to distance himself from the tea party Republicans even while he champions most of their views.
Now that really sent out some danger signals and that's why, you know this contest is not a tea party, there are those who think that the minute that there is any sort of engagement between the two opposing views here, that somehow this is against the rules.
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She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herbal tea that is now her substitute for coffee.
Analysts would be mistaken to suppose that the Tea Party is done as a national phenomenon if Romney is the nominee.
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There are reasons for this, principal among them the fact that the Tea Party is not and has never been monolithic.
It is the Tea Party that could well do in leading contender Mitt Romney because they don't consider him sufficiently conservative.
The problem for the tea party is that the benefits extracted from these missteps will likely be short-lived, certainly not enough to last until the next election cycle.
Some say, with evidence, that the Tea Party is not a new movement, but instead a new name and organizing principle for both fiscal and social conservatives.
What this tells the pundits (and me) is that the Republican candidate, whoever it is, will be heavily invested in Tea Party support.
But if there is a Reagan out there to take the reins of the tea party movement, Russo doesn't know who that person is.
Mind you, it's not just the Tea Party that is unimpressed by Mr Romney.
One assertion few would argue with is that the Tea Party has utterly failed to manage its own brand.
Maybe the problem here is that the Tea Party freshman class in the House simply does not yet understand the legislative process and how things actually get done in Washington.
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That tea is the perfect complement to any flaky, buttery item I choose.
The problem is that if the tea party returns to issues proven to fire up the base it will violate at least two of its major tenets: fiscal prudence and smaller government.
The Tea Party is essential to that end.
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