Is The Tea Party Over?-So far, only 25 patriots have reported for duty.

[kpete]

Michele Bachmann wants tea partiers to help her kill health care reform this week. So far, only 25 patriots have reported for duty.
-Stephanie Mencimer


Is The Tea Party Over?
— By Stephanie Mencimer | Wed November 4, 2009 3:24 AM PST

The tea partiers are launching the revolution. This week. But will anyone actually show up?

On Sunday, Rep. Michele Bachmann challenged viewers of Sean Hannity’s Fox News show to join her last-ditch attempt to kill health care reform. The fiery Minnesota Republican plans to hold a press conference at "high noon" on Thursday. She urged Americans to flood the halls of Congress that day, find their elected officials, "look at the whites of their eyes and tell them, 'don't you dare take away my health care.'"

Since then, so-called tea party patriots have been burning up the Internets trying to rally supporters to attend Bachmann’s event. But so far, their efforts haven't amounted to much. The official Tea Party Patriots website laments that Bachmann’s rally is being stymied by a "media blackout"—meaning that mainstream outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have ignored it.

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As of Tuesday afternoon, the official tea party website indicated that only 25 patriots were on hand for "Operation House Call." That’s a pretty paltry showing for an organization that claims to represent millions of disaffected Americans. Bachmann’s rally on Thursday could be a different matter—but probably not because of the tea party patriots.

more:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/tea-party-down

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Didn't Bachmann say this was going to be the Mega Bowl for Patriotism or something like that?

In the anals of history people are going to be talking about three things: the discovery of fire, invention of the submarine, and the Michelle Bachmann Mega Bowl for patriotism.

[FSogol]

2. With any luck, they'll be some visiting high school bands that will

overwhelm the 2 dozens tea-baggers.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. She wants them to say "don't you dare take away my health care"? That is not an effective attack

since they/we are trying to expand coverage.

I am betting all 25 of those parrot-triots are being payed to be there.

[backscatter712]

4. There was a few hundred that showed up in Fort Collins today.

But it took a few things. One, they had to bus many of them in from elsewhere in their astroturfing busses (yes they were there,)

and it took an appearance by Joe the Plumber.

One thing I can say about this "spontaneous" protest - it was quite professionally produced - they had a band, a sound board, the atmosphere was more like a highly-marketed rock concert than that of a improvised protest rally.