Who started the Tea Party Movement Again?
I was Tea Party before Tea Party is cool.

Now, neo-cons put a turd in the punch bowl.. and ruined our good time.
Oh!...I know the answer to that!
The first proto Tea Party rally was in Seattle in February 2009. It was started by Keli Carender, a conservative blooger, and she got local talk radio involved.
News of the anti Obama movement spread throughout the conservative blogosphere, and then conservative media and the GOP seized the movement and turned it into the new GOP rebranding effort.
Republicans...ashamed of the state of the economy in January 2009, now had a place to hide.
They stopped calling themselves Republicans, and started calling themselves "Independent leaning conservatives, "conservatives", "Tea Partiers", "libertarian leaning independents".....and they grabbed up thier Gadsden flags and set out to saddle Obama with everything that was wrong in the world.
Now, having successfully convincing themselves Obama is to blame for everything, Republicans/Tea Partiers are proud to do what they've always done, vote Republican, and don't even have Tea Party rallies anymore.