Sagging Teabags on Capitol Hill today

from HuffPost:



Tea Party March 16 Protest Turnout: Democrats MOCK Smaller-Than-Expected Crowd
First Posted: 03-16-10 04:15 PM | Updated: 03-16-10 04:57 PM


Despite the Tea Party movement's high hopes for Tuesday's Capitol Hill rally to kill health care reform -- an event that featured appearances by numerous GOP lawmakers -- it appears the crowd was not as large as expected.

Tea Party organizers told CNN that somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 people gathered today in Washington D.C.

But the Democratic National Committee estimates placed the number of attendees at a mere 300, an amount that they later mocked and used as evidence that "the air is out of the tea party balloon," as DNC spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine said, according to the Hill.

"Today's dismal showing on Capitol Hill coupled with the turnout we're seeing at health reform rallies across the country where supporters are outnumbering opponents by three to one and four to one clearly demonstrates that the momentum is squarely on the side of those who support reform," Hoffine continued.

"I've been to birthday parties that drew more people," the communications director for the Democratic National Committee, Brad Woodhouse, told Politico in an email. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/tea-party-march-16-protes_n_501352.html

now that reform has become nothing but a handout to big health & insurance.

where are your thousands of people getting out to support the dlc, chumps..

:kick:R for the lack of 10,000, as reported by faux..

..... 300 is being generous.

They need to get those fake protesters bused in from the Florida election Gore versus Bush.

for a tea bag to be completely used up does it.

I'd love to see some from further back. All the pictures I've seen from inside the "crowd" look like it's about 5 to 8 people deep.

and I saw only about a dozen teabaggers. We were not there for any protest or anything, just to tour the Capitol.