WOW!
What a show of FARCE!

Three people could show up and Senate Dems would soil themselves.

These cuts aren't popular with anyone and won't do a thing to solve the budget, but the Senate Dems and White House have managed to lose the debate and likely give away the store.

It looks like the tea party is imploding. The regular Republcians and the Democrats are going to be able to keep the government running despite the wishes of the Bachmann caucus.

"That's not good."

From my point of view - it's GREAT news! Maybe reality is sinking in?

Then something sad happened. Just a few dozen people showed up. And Fox, naturally, blamed the weather.

...and then substituted footage from a much bigger rally that happened in nicer weather.

In all fairness, those Motorized Medicare Scooters that the Teabag Cavalry uses to ride in on are notoriously finicky, and hard to start in cold wet weather.

But, then so are pacemakers.

Apparently, the tree of liberty will only be watered with the blood of patriots as long as it's sunny and not too hot. Seriously, where were all the Patriots? Lord knows their Rascal scooters aren't solar powered.

But, but...the media fell backwards over itself whenever half a dozen tea baggers threw tantrums and hissy fits at town hall meetings? There was exhaustive coverage when 25 or 30 tea baggers showed up for Dick Army's bussed in dog and pony shows. Why should this be any different?

Maybe because their 15 minutes has just about ticked by.

Sunshine patriots!
And as others note, it's pathetic how the media sucked up to this crock.

In any case, can Obama now have the nerve to withdraw his offer (as I heard) to cut fuel oil subsidies for the poor?

The weather really hasn't been that bad--dreary, chilly, and occasionally a little misty. I've been in and out and haven't cracked open the umbrella yet.

But that amount of media coverage for a non event tells you everything you need to know about the state of politics in this country now, and it ain't good.

I was at a rally of somewhere north of 2000 people in San Francisco, and I counted precisely 0 media people covering it. I went to another rally where Robert Reich showed up, and at least that number of people. Ditto. I don't recall any media coverage at all of that.

You get 50 seriously stupid people with tri-corner hats with teabags hanging off of them and it's a major story.

Possible reasons for the low turnout.

Reason 1.
Many of those teabagger rallies happend before Republican governors took a chainsaw to the gubmint benefits and services the teabaggers wanted Obama to keep his gubmint hands off of.

Reason 2.
The teabaggers spent all of their money buying offical teabagger merchandise, paying to see Palin speak, and buying books by Palin, Beck and Wurzhelbacher. They're broke

Reason 3.
Teabaggers are overextended in the gold coin market.

I guess hate is a stronger motivator than support. Last year, the teabaggers couldn't wait to show up at the Capitol to scream their support for having their tax dollars go towards excellent healthcare for their idiot representatives, but not for themselves, and to shout n***er every chance they got -- but today, meh, whatever - "their" guys are already in, so no biggie.

Brietbart will prove ACORN had their vast minions buy up all of the Gore Tex in the DC area.

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country..."

and these are the people scaring the Dems to play on GOP turf? pathetic, indeed.

Plus all the GOPers are supposedly shaking in their boots at the thought of teabagger primary challenges in '12. I wonder how many of those challenges are going to emerge with real legs - not so many, I'd bet.

We would do well to hammer the facts as it seems the Republican's efforts don't hold up well against empirical evidence!

At every possible juncture, juxtraposing what the Republican party claims with visual street scenes, analyzing Republican proposals effectively to calculate the damage they'd cause, and widely publicizing such stark differences so American voters won't get fooled again will hopefully begin a turn around from this newly elected Republican fringe of 2010! -Kevo

Just read martin @ 3:15pm. If I get a chance to watch FOXNEWS tonight, I'll be looking for the palm trees in the background of the burgeoning Tea Partying crowd who showed up to that Florida pre-2010 Republican fundraiser.

Afterall, I believe before hand, the technicians at FOX will make another mistake when running such fake footage for such a sad assembly of overtly enthused Tea Baggers and then after the fact argue palm trees do indeed grow in Washington DC! -Kevo

The Tea Party was a strawman delusion ginned up by the media and a few know nothing attendees who thought a few catchy slogans equalled a revolution. It is to laugh...

Don't you think Dick Armey could have rounded up a few busloads for this event if he wanted? Tea bag patriots have served their purpose for the time being.

Right-wing bloggers will be reporting attendence close to a million by next week.

Some of the locals might have been discouraged by the weather but what about those truly dedicated Tea Potties who, in the past, used to trek across the country? Weather wouldn't have made them change their plans; you make a commitment (air ticket, bus rental, booked lodgings) weeks ahead of time, you don't cancel easily. Anyway, given the time of year, you have to take your chances on weather.

Which makes me wonder who had the brilliant idea to set it up for today and why? I can see the rationale behind the rallies around April 15th, since the original idea behind the Tea Potty was "Taxed Enough Already". But, today? "We'll be fools a day ahead of schedule" seems like the only reason for the choice.

The weather is liberally biiiiiiiased and is part of a plot to squash good conservatives free speach rights.