“Critics of President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan gathered beneath the Arch Friday to cheer speeches over a bullhorn and toss tea into the Mississippi River. The organizer said he got the idea after Rick Santelli, a CNBC market commentator in Chicago, last week called for a tea party to protest Obama’s anti-recession plan. Santelli’s comments became a YouTube hit, and similar “tea parties” were planned in other cities.
The original took place on Dec. 16, 1773, when American patriots dumped imported tea from merchant ships into Boston harbor to protest British colonial taxes.” – From the Drudge Report, February 28, 2009

Now, why are they wasting perfectly good tea by throwing it in the river? I guess tea will be flowing down through the deltas for days to come…