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== Beginnings ==

== Beginnings ==

The Tea Party movement began on February 19, 2009, when Mr. [[Rick Santelli]], an on-the-air editor and analyst for [[CNBC Business News]],<ref name=santelli1>"[http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837966/ Rick Santelli Profile, Biography, About]," ''[http://www.cnbc.com/ CNBC.com]'', accessed September 16, 2009</ref> made this statement on the floor of the [[Chicago Board of Trade]]:{{cquote|We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July! All you capitalists who live near Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing!"<ref name=santelli2>"[http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283225/site/14081545 Angry? Join Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party]!", ''cnbc.com'', 19 February 2009. Accessed 16 September 2009.</ref>}}

The Tea Party movement began on February 19, 2009, when Mr. [[Rick Santelli]], an on-the-air editor and analyst for [[CNBC]],<ref name=santelli1>"[http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837966/ Rick Santelli Profile, Biography, About]," ''[http://www.cnbc.com/ CNBC.com]'', accessed September 16, 2009</ref> made this statement on the floor of the [[Chicago Board of Trade]]:{{cquote|We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July! All you capitalists who live near Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing!"<ref name=santelli2>"[http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283225/site/14081545 Angry? Join Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party]!", ''cnbc.com'', 19 February 2009. Accessed 16 September 2009.</ref>}}

At issue was the [[Obama Administration]]'s program for offering to repay many home mortgages that were nearly in default at the time, and also the tremendous "economic stimulus" package, which Santelli and others viewed as an excuse for dispensing "pork", i.e. agreed-upon graft. Mr. Santelli was making an obvious reference to the [[Boston Tea Party]] in 1773. To underscore his point, Mr. Santelli cited [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], and other members of the "[[Founding Fathers]]" who, he said, must be "rolling over in their graves" at the spectacle that the [[President of the United States|Presidency]] of [[Barack Hussein Obama]] is now creating.<ref name=santelli2/>

At issue was the [[Obama Administration]]'s program for offering to repay many home mortgages that were nearly in default at the time, and also the tremendous "economic stimulus" package, which Santelli and others viewed as an excuse for dispensing "pork", i.e. agreed-upon graft. Mr. Santelli was making an obvious reference to the [[Boston Tea Party]] in 1773. To underscore his point, Mr. Santelli cited [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], and other members of the "[[Founding Fathers]]" who, he said, must be "rolling over in their graves" at the spectacle that the [[President of the United States|Presidency]] of [[Barack Hussein Obama]] is now creating.<ref name=santelli2/>