JENNIFER RUBIN: Tea Party Is About Values, Not Just Money. “What started the Tea Party? A CNBC host ranting that a responsible homeowner shouldn’t pay his irresponsible neighbor’s mortgage. In other words, underlying the Tea Party movement is a set of values — thrift, delayed gratification, personal responsibility, etc. Those are not what we have come to identify as ‘social’ issues, but these are not simply matters of dollars and cents.”