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.

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The Tea Party express bus tour will make its way to Washington over the next several weeks and plans to arrive in the nation's capital for a rally on April 15, the national deadline day for citizens to file their annual income tax returns.

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We stopped for a little North Carolina barbecue and sweet tea along the way. (Applause.) Some hushpuppies.

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But now that Cruz appears to be headed for Washington, I wouldn't be surprised if he distanced himself from the tea party the way that Sen.

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The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior.

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