Is The Tea Party Over?

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By Stephanie Mencimer | Wed November 4, 2009 3:38 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.

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

And then there's the Orly-O'Reilly prize fight!

[cleveramerican]

1. Bachman is the leader of the tinfoil hat wing of the republican party

there are not as many nuts out there as she assumed