text: It's tough to have a tea party these days. Regulations and permits were not a part of the first one. The good folks from MillionTeaBags.org ought to know. They dropped by CEI on April 15 with a problem. The Park Service told them that while they had a perfectly legal permit to demonstrate in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, that day, they hadn't specifically asked if they could display the one million bags of tea they had trucked in.