Now It Can Be Told: The Tea Party -- Descendants of Coneheads?

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A society of patriotic ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina: satire of American women from Edenton, North Carolina, pledging to boycott English tea in response to Continental Congress resolution in 1774 to boycott English goods; text reads: "We the Ladys of Edenton do hereby solemnly Engage not to Conform to that Pernicious Custom of Drinking Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys Promote the use of any Manufacture from England, until such time that all Acts which tend to Enslave this our Native Country shall be Repealed": Philip Dawe, 1775, for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, publishers, London (British Cartoon Collection, Library of Congress)

Ever wonder why in photos the Tea Party all-stars frequently appear with the tops of their heads not seen? Could it be because their heads, reverting to the original interstellar dimensions, like those of the curious conehead ladies in the above historical lithograph, keep getting outlandishly bigger? Is the truth about to out, or will it merely be the cones? Are these beings just here on this planet for a visit? Could it be they plan on sticking around only until the old and the sick and the poor have been eliminated, or might they have larger designs? Is this part of a Master Plan hatched in some distant galaxy where the ruling classes ensure their own grip on power by refusing taxes on their country-club greens fees? If we turn over what's left of this longsuffering degraded and depleted planet to them, will they settle for merely having colonized us, and depart for the deep asteroid belts from under which they crawled out in the first place?

The Coneheads at Home: still from Saturday Night Live episode, 16 April 1977 (Saturday Night Live Archive)

Sarah Palin, "Queen of the Tea Party," campaigning at Tea Party rally in Reno, Nevada, displays American flag she has just defaced with her signature: still from video posted by The Guardian, 20 October 2010

Glenn Beck, Fox News Tea Party pundit-in-chief: photo by Michael Caulfield/WireImage, via The Guardian 5 October 2010

Tea Party candidate Michele Bachmann launches her campaign for the 2012 US presidential elections: photo by JeffHaynes/Reuters, via The Guardian, 27 June 2011

Greenpeace airship with optimistic artist's rendering of the tops of the heads of oil billionaires and major Tea Party funders David and Charles Koch, flying over Rancho Mirage, California as they convene their latest political strategy meeting: photo by Gus Ruelas/Greenpeace, via The Guardian, 30 January 2011