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It was the rant that launched a movement, and it began on a cable television news segment. How many you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills?

Raise their hand.

At CNBC's Rick Santelli, on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade in February 2009,

he's upset about the Obama administration's plan to spend $75 billion of taxpayer money

to rescue homeowners underwater on their mortgages as a result of the financial crisis.

President Obama, are you listening?

We're thinking of having a Chicago tea party in July.

All you capitalists I want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing.

Two months later, on April 15th, tax day, more than 750 so-called tea parties were held across the country.

Some drew crowds in the thousands.

This is real.

These people are here and they're here to stay.

It's now been 10 years since the Tea Party movement engineered a surprising takeover of American politics.

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