Their general uniting force is just that theyre unhappy right now with the way things are. Last month about one thousand people attended a national Tea Party convention in Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Later, certain aspects of this convergence would be polemicized against, and rejected as a Yahweh only party sought to differentiate itself from those that it would now label as other, and call Canaanites, as distinct from Israelites.

后来，这个集合过程的一些方面又被争论，并且被否决，因为耶和华,只是唯一要将自己区分的一方,但它现在却被当作另一方，叫作迦南，与以色列完全不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So this is a subtle thing because you think about the current election, there's a debate about whether Hilary Clinton, for example, can choose right now to be at the center of the democratic party given her past history of votes, for example, on the Iraq War.

这是个微妙的事情,因为你联想到现在的选举,举个例子,关于希拉里·克林顿能否选择,作为民主党竞选中间派参选就颇有争议,考虑到她的参选记录,例如在伊拉克战争中

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I think the Tea Party movement is a very amorphous one right now that is really a collection of people who are frustrated, angry or worried, but who dont necessarily either have the same basic objectives, nor necessarily agree with each other about the best ways to move forward.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

"If you look at those who are most inclined to be involved in politics right now, the dynamic shifts to the minority party."

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

The Times poll found that 18 percent of Americans now identify themselves as Tea Party supporters.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"I think in the long run what this does is to contribute to what seems to be occurring right now and that is the retrenchment of the Republican Party, opting for purity of ideological beliefs rather than a broad-based appeal to the general public."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"They stress over and over again in domestic propaganda, 'we are not going back to the six party talks.' Now I realize that North Korea has said in the past has said in the past, it ain't coming back, and then it comes back anyway,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.26