The Tea Party is fizzling. Monday was tax day and that is supposed to be a big day for rallies and demonstrations for the Tea Party wingnuts. Reports from all around the country inform us that the crowds as these gatherings are way, way down from those of the last two years. As I came from the Florence post office after gladly putting my check to the IRS in the mail, I drifted over to Wilson Park, where the Shoals Tea Party Patriots had gathered to rail against taxes, Obama, and gummint in general. I carefully counted the crowd twice. First count 86 people; second count 85. A shadow of their former numbers!
These one-note Janes and Johnnies are showing political fatigue. Compare these thin crowds to the tens of thousands of progressives who have gathered repeatedly at state houses in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan to protest right wing schemes to kill off collective bargaining.
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