and i also brewed some tea using two peppermint tea bags. we're gonna put these into our drinking glasses. - minty ice cubes. - great! all right, now we can pour our tea-- - fill 'er up! - and the fun part is decorating them. - we're gonna really make them look like bicycles. so, i've got an orange here with a slice in it. - yup! - you can put that on top. put that right there on the edge. yeah, just like that. - wow! - and with two straws taped together, we can make the handle bars... - oh, wow! - ...for our bicycle icicle tea. - it does look like a bicycle. - well, now that we're finished we can... clean up! - clean up! ready... - set... - go! phew-- all clean! - phew-- all clean! - and remember, sean, we need to recycle this tea box for the craft for later. - oh, that's using your noodle, noodle mcnoodle. [doodle chiming] that's doodle! let's see what our friends are doing. - yeah! mm, they're eating up the popcorn, so we can re-use the bag for our craft later. thanks, doodle. - thanks. [doodle chiming] [barking] - oh, that's doggity. let

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- here's our bicycle icicle tea. see the bicycles? - oh, it looks nice and cold. - it's gonna be nice and cold all right. well, now that you've got your tea and your decorations, you can go and enjoy your family bike ride. - yeah! - all right, see ya later. there's nothing like cold bicycle icicle tea to refresh you on a hot day. - oh, and sean, look-- those bike plates and tassels look really neat. they did such a great job. - bye, sean! - thanks, doodle. - oh,sean, maybe you can help me decorate my scooter later? - oh, that's a great idea, noodle! i'd love to. - awesome! - do you have a bike or a scooter? maybe you have a stroller that you carry your dolls around in. well, how would you decorate it? here we go! i wonder where our next stop will be.

and i also brewed some tea using two peppermint tea bags. we're gonna put these into our drinking glasses. - minty ice cubes. - great! all right, now we can pour our tea-- - fill 'er up! - and the fun part is decorating them. - we're gonna really make them look like bicycles. so, i've got an orange here with a slice in it. - yup! - you can put that on top. put that right there on the edge. yeah, just like that. - wow! - and with two straws taped together, we can make the handle bars... - oh, wow! - ...for our bicycle icicle tea. - it does look like a bicycle. - well, now that we're finished we can... clean up! - clean up! ready... - set... - go!

the viewer wants to know what is the tea party, on what issues is the tea party angry with mitt romneyrting with obama care. romney is doing this repeal and we're going to keep parts of it we like. well, the whole thing is unconstitutional, unworkable, it needs to be simply be scrapped and let's get free market ideas in there to bring down the cost of health care and make it afford anl for people and that's the starter. the next thing he comes out and says, well, i'm going to cut taxes, but not for the upper income people. we need to cut taxes for everybody, and some people say tea party stands for tea, taxed enough already. liz: all right, tea party leader, thank you, appreciate it. next up, california continues to chase bests out of the state. now, new, at thats will cost companies a billion dollars a year. so, will voters pick democrats to lead, why? we'll ask the leader of the california republican party. that's next, don't go away. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. governor of getting it done. you know how to dance... with a deadline. and you...rent from national. because

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tea bagging for the military industrial complex so tea party nation leader judson phillips told the economist magazine max he said if we decide to build a couple of new carriers aircraft carriers thousands of workers would be hired for the shipyards thousands of employees would be hired for the steel mills it means they would receive paychecks and go out and spend that money so we should use this sort of government spending we should expand the military and this is a good kind of big government a good kind of government spend not that bad stuff over there for social welfare services and food stamps and health care or exploration of mars or landing on the moon landing of course generated the technological interest in interest and signs which resulted in giving us things like microsoft apple oracle you know the s. and p. five hundred move for the past twenty years but that's bad government you don't want the government involved in initiating any kind of scientific endeavors or infrastructure or anything like that you want government to be purely in the business of procuring weapons of mass dest

party i'm not here defending the tea party but to say the so you go as far as to say that the tea party was not an organic movement i think is a little condescending to the party years they came out of nowhere they came out of nowhere where they had was an anti more so than more so than occupy wall street had an anti-government perspective on the way they wanted to do things and that scared any hell out of the a stag definitely i want to disagree with you because i know i have researched it and they did siphon energy off and i don't gannett movement that started and then catered it toward the glenn becks and michele are all that but let's so you of course really should be let's talk about why is it you know we have bernie sanders i don't see any progress is always seen the political establishment as moderates conservatives and ultra right wing there is no what i don't want to see from no one from the left in this country was able to co-opt the move but the same way that people on the right were able to co-opt the tea party the tea party have very very successful people why i didn't see

and we can recycle the tea box from the bicycle, icicle tea and make license plates for your bikes. - cool! - well, thanks, doodle. [doodle chiming] - while you two finish eating your snacks, noodle and i'll start making the bicycle icicle tea. and when you're finished, hop on the bus and we'll make the decorations together. - okay! - cool! - hey, that's a great idea. - all right. well, we gotta plan-- see you soon-- bye! [in unison] - bye, sean! - hey, sean, come on-- let's get crackin'!

. >> eliot: even members of the tea party are trying to get some distance from the tea party. that's ahead. by american express. welcome to the possibilities of membership. welcome in. american express. >> eliot: along with news that president obama is a net job creator, there are more jobs in the economy than when he took office, there is this interesting fact. he's presided over a turnaround in the creation of manufacturing jobs and that's our number of the day. more than 500,000 that's how many jobs we've added to the manufacturing sector since january of 2010. he all remember manufacturers the only ones who actually make stuff like cars in detroit machinery in alabama and electronics in maryland. but ten years ago we seem to write off this entire sector. it went into freefall after january 2001 and shedd four and a half million jobs by the end of the bush administration in january of 2009. but for more than two years now it is steadily, quietly gone up to the tune of half a million new jobs. it goes to prove that we can save the manufacturing sector and we should, making t

he offers tea and cold cakes. the tea is delicious. spiced like the start of our courtship. honeyed and warm. i drink every bit of the tea and put aside the cakes. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room like a man loving his strength. the lock i replaced this morning will not keep him away. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and brings me nothing. perhaps he has noticed how fat i have grown indulged. perhaps he is poor and sick as emptying his store. it is no matter to me any longer he has filled me already so full. my lover who is far away opens the door to my room and tells me he is tired. i do not ask what he's tired from for my lover far away has already disappeared. the blankets are big with his body. the cat, under the covers because it is cold out and she is not stupid. muse. >> thank you. [applause]. >> please welcome mr. douglas kaerny. [applause] >> how many know the song living in the city by stevie wonder. that great skit at end where stevie plays all the voices and gets arrested. new york city, skyscrapers and everything. this i

even if this tea party affiliated voter integrity project says they are. we know these people aren't dead because north carolina officials started the laborious process of reviewing this list of allegedly dead voters last week. they whittled the list down to 5,000 names that matched up enough for a second look and started sending out letters to those voters. and the results so far have been spectacular. look at this. one voter, carolyn perry has been voting in north carolina since 1967. this month, she got a letter from her county board of elections saying she might not be qualified to vote anymore on account of she might be dead. she says, quote, my initial reaction, i was mad as hell. yes. understandably. carolyn perry's county is sending these "you might be dead" letters to 148 voters because of this kick the people off the voting rolls process started by a north carolina tea party group. they sent letters to these voters alleging they are dead and actually already 42 of the people on the list have raised their living hands and said, hold on there, hold

and i'm talking about what the tea party wants what the tea party is shooting for what this guy is criticizing his chance for huge is actually just a minute he loved it's all yours francesca thirty second i think that strongly disingenuous to derive the division of politics in america while slamming the tea party and i don't think that it's fair for but that is what happened and i don't think that it's fair for you know us to say oh well the deputy prime minister of australia says that that's a threat so that somehow it's right we need to know is that he's a major progressive the prime minister is a major progressive that's like saying that center for american progress thinks republicans are a threat so therefore they're a threat a lot of liberals are as it really is going on really great they're not crashing right now they're run by progressives you know that right before that though they were rammed by conservatives when they were rammed by conservatives the conservatives say the same thing of barack obama oh he's a major threat whatever so he has a hero i mean like republicans will say that

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of that but we should on no account mix up those two groups ok sam if we go back you an islamic the tea party was mentioned here why doesn't the occupy movement do something like that get organized i mean the only thing is you know if you if you look at any woman start of there's unfair practice and if you look at the economics or or if you look at a household if it's going to be in june it's going to hurt you and your family and your children and their finances but their education their livelihood that i think it's you know not just a small movement to begin with and it's not going to just die out i listen until we see the economic boom back again or receive some stimulus at least in the u.s. or the other western economies i think it's actually going to grow and it's not just any party ok justifying that raise a go go ahead jump in that's the point of the program doesn't that raise a question how is it that this occupy movement that is supposedly so far reaching and so potent and ready to spring back into action has done nothing in a year and we're supposed to sit here and say well it'

noodle and i could make some icy cold, bicycle icicle tea for you. we could mix together some peppermint tea, some apple juice and some lemon juice.

another fshororite chl soter i review is chapter 5, the tea party nation anti-gay. most of the media will automatically answer yes or hell mands and the reality is that t party is a more complex and diverse movement and many ot it is emphatically not a mirror image of the christian rigy an although there is of course overlap between the two. from its very begi 1ing as riger all the tea party has been mostly about economic issues. it was anger over those issues that sparked the movement to begin with and it was that relentless focus on economic issues and deliberate conscious shorand hdance of social issues was because of its great success in 2010. as written in the new york times in 2010, god, life and family get litogne mention in tea part statements and manifestoes. the mowaso of the tea party papriiots, lativee coalition ofa party groups is fiscal ot government and free market. that focus is strategic she added. leaders think they can attract independent voters if they stay away froits were right. that is the rey to their success so far. what their views on gay i

party dot net and founder of tea party nation and marc harrold libertarian commentator attorney and author welcome to both of you joe thank you and you we just have just two minutes real quick talk here and will pick up some more after the break i just interviewed judge jim gray it's been twenty years since we had a third party that had a voice in the debate what sort of election reforms you know without getting to the issues what sort of election reforms judson do you think that we should have so that we can have third parties whether we like them or not what involved it's green party or the libertarian for a third party to be involved it's got to be a certain threshold you've got to have a certain all the democrats a set that a fifteen percent that seems crazy to me i didn't seem crazy to me because if you set it low enough you're going to have so many voices out there that you're not going to be able to make an intelligent decision so we'd be like france and israel and pretty much every other democracy in the world well no we're not every other democracy in the world we're consti

the largest of its kind by the way and surveying tea party members reported similar findings about tea party members. 53% supported relationship for for -- gay couples. this large pocket should come as no surprise given with the research, the pew research center founded its own polling of the tea party movement. only 42% of self-identified tea party members agree with the conservative christian movement while 46% have no opinion of it or have not heard of it and 11% oppose it. striking confirmation i think that the religious right in the tea party are anonymous movement. part of the recent thing for this broader acceptance of social tolerance is the large number of libertarians. akshay outlined three outline three studies in the book and shows that approximately half the tea party activists are libertarians versus the more traditional conservatives that most people think make up the movement and in fact cato has an upcoming policy study by david kirby and emily eakin's entitled, libertarian roots are the party that confirms this widespread libertarian participation in the greater self

sit here and say well it's too early to judge i understand the historical argument for that but the tea party which grew up in a year and a half managed to bring a republican house with the largest majority since the one nine hundred forty s. how is it that one is supposed to be let alone until it comes to fruition and the other was quickly efficacious how do we explain that joseph you want to feel that i want to go ahead. well there's a group called americans for prosperity there's a group called freedom works or bankrolled by billionaires right wing corporate billionaires it financed the tea party from the beginning dick armey used to be majority leader in the house of representatives for the republicans from texas and he's one of the big players behind freedom works they were backed by corporate money or astroturf from the start and what they were able to do is tap into an latent racism directed at barack obama as the phrase the latin president and my bro you yes blatant racism in american society that's why they say he's from kenya all this stuff about how they there they went absol

party event in cincinnati hustler excuse me us to hold tea party members that he has pledged to push even stricter voter id requirements in a leaked audio recording husted can be heard saying that we need to streamline the number currently eligible voter i.d.'s we do see in the number of i.d.'s that residents can legally show to prove their identity and voting eligibility it's bad enough the husted got away with changing early voting hours no iow the fact that he wants to continue his and the g.o.p. is warren voting lap it's very very.

the republican congress newly dominated by the tea party threatened for the first time in history to have america default on its debt. journalist bob woodward takes an inside look at the debt ceiling crisis. his book "the price of politics," you talk about it as financial equivalent of the cuban missile crisis. >> it's so serious they couldn't tell the world how bad it was at the time. >> reporter: the president and speaker of the house john boehner, the chain-smoking son of an ohio barkeep who is skilled in the art of backroom negotiation, still boehner has to deal with his new tea party caucus. some of whom seem to want to see the u.s. default. >> at one point of the meeting i look at myself, i look at the president and i just started chuckling to myself. >> reporter: here you're listening to speaker boehner when he talks to woodward about one of his early meetings with the president. >> because all you need to know about the ifrps dids between the president and myself is that i'm sitting here smoking a cigarette drinking merlot and i look across the table and here's the president

no, just not my cup of tea. >> i'll just put these in the boot. >> mr. smithers. >> ah. >> you're soon back. >> oh, just come to collect my gear. i'm off to shrewsbury, a place near my daughter's. she thinks it's a good idea, but i'm not too sure myself. oh, listen. >> what? >> you can hear miss richards heaving a great sigh of relief. >> [chuckles] >> oh, the hospital sent my particulars to shrewsbury police, so don't worry. i shan't escape the long arm of the law. take care of yourself, alice. [engine starts] >> you all right? >> yes, thank you, tom. very all right. gwen: we've gotten four dozen polls in one week and they alltel roughly the same story. who's ahead, who's stumbling and why. tonight on "washington week" -- >> i don't believe we can get very far with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims. gwen: the president, happy to pile on, as mitt romney ends another tough week. >> there are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government. gwen: th