You think they could read the tea leaves?

Eric (of Eric's Grumbles) has a great idea.

Actually, it was a commenter's idea, but Eric's trying to give it legs, and I'm happy to help.

Some time ago in Boston, we threw tea off a boat. The King got it. Do you think our reps would get it if we sent them tea-bags?

...viral marketing is quite powerful, the idea is amazingly simple, every American knows what the Boston Tea Party was, and a huge portion of the population is completely disgusted with the government these days.

So, here's the idea. Many Americans are completely disgusted with the government right now and feel, rightly, that they are no longer represented. We feel that we are being taxed, and our tax money being used without our consent, in ways that are flat out wrong. We hate the pork spending we see every day while our government spends more and more money that they have borrowed, which leads to even more taxes in the future. We once sent a message to the King of England that he couldn't ignore (after years of ignoring our petitions and pleas). Let's send a signal to Washington that has its roots in the origin of our country, one that they can't misunderstand.

Here's how to do it. Write your Senators and Representatives a letter, with details of where you take issue with their actions. A physical letter, not an email. Then tuck a tea bag into the letter. Send it to the local office, not the DC office. If you send it to DC, they will probably never receive the tea bag due to the postal security around Congress. In the next day or two I'm going to have put together a way for everyone doing it to let me know who they've sent tea bags to, and why.

I'm in.  Who else?

(Yes, in these days of easy email, it's hard as everything to get me to write a physical letter.  But this is worth it.)