"We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation..."

It was inevitable — the struggle over the name "tea party."

Tea Party Express... National Tea Party Federation... everybody's appropriating the words. What's next?

Dialogue, chez Meadehouse:

Me: The New Tea Party... like the New Black Panther Party (whatever that is)...

Meade: The Green Tea Party... now, with more anti-oxidants.

Me: The White Tea Party...

Meade: People aren't going to get that.