REPORT: Number Of Tea Party Events Down More Than 50 Percent In 2011

[Skip_In_Boulder]

Last September, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin answered critics who predicted that the movement would soon peter out: “The Tea Party movement is here to stay.” Seven months later, presidential candidate Herman Cain — a Tea Party favorite — echoed the same sentiment: “I have people asking me all the time. Do you think this Tea-Party ‘thing’ is going to go away? <...> No, it’s not going away. It’s gonna get stronger and stronger.”

A ThinkProgress investigation, however, shows a far different picture. Indeed, empirical evidence points to one conclusion: Tea Party activity has declined sharply thus far in 2011.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/22/273766/tea-party-events-declining/

[rfranklin]

1. There's a big surprise...

It was a phoney astroturf operation from day one. It served its purpose in disguising the Republicans who had been disgraced by the end of the Bush debacle. Now they have the "deficit."

[Skip_In_Boulder]

3. Maybe some people are starting to wake up.

One can only hope.

[Turbineguy]

2. Disco.

[Wilms]

4. Will somebody PLEASE tell Obama about this? n/t

[Booster]

7. NOBODY in Wash DC cares about the rest of us. NOBODY.

[DainBramaged]

5. 2012 will mark the end of the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1545206

[spanone]

6. they are now 'republican' events....there is no difference