"The scheduled tea party "die-in" this morning didn't exactly live up to the hype."

[Clio the Leo]

The scheduled tea party "die-in" this morning didn't exactly live up to the hype. A group of tea partiers gathered this morning and "stormed" Senate offices as planned, but the crowd was smaller than at past events. As for the "dying" part, that didn't seem to play a large part in the event either. TPMDC noticed no deaths, fake or otherwise, while we were there.

The group that was there did travel far to make it, probably because there's another tea party event this afternoon sponsored by Americans For Prosperity, the business-backed charity that has paid for tea party buses in the past. Die-iners hailed from as far away as Washington state. Georgia had a large contingent, though unlike others in the group, they didn't go to visit their senators during the office storm. Instead, they tagged along with the lone tea partier from Connecticut on his way to visit Joe Lieberman.

"We're lucky -- our politicians aren't the bad ones," Joy McGann of Atlanta told TPMDC. "We figured we'd go with this man from Connecticut -- he's alone and he needs the help."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/tea-partiers-debut-the-12-days-of-obama.php?ref=fpblg

[tosh]

1. " -- he's alone and he needs the help."

:rofl:

[napi21]

2. Not the BAD ONES? Ha, talk about in the eye of the beholder!

I'm from Ga. too & Chambliss & Isackson are two of the WORST!

[Clio the Leo]

3. And Lamar Alexander isn't exactly a champion of the people. NT

[AspenRose]

4. I would hope for the Teabagger movement to "die off" (like a bad strain)

but that's probably too much to hope for

[Clio the Leo]

5. Follow up .....

Staffers in Sen. Joe Lieberman's office called the Capitol Police when a group of tea partiers came and sat down to wait for him, according to Tea Party Patriots coordinator Mark Meckler. The police came and escorted them out, but no one was arrested.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/live/health-care/#308091