Tea as in Turkey

As in "stick a fork in it." The right-wing lunatic fringe has tried mightily to mount some sort of vast uprising against Obama's stimulus and budget plans. This weekend showed just how completely the wingnuts have failed.

Across the nation, foaming-at-the-mouth Limbaugh Loonies blogged their call to arms for all who were offended by the President's middle-class tax cuts, expanded health-care coverage, education funding and the creation of new jobs -- all things that the right apparently hates -- to protest in grassroots "Tea Parties." Here's how local zealot Lisa Mossie breathlessly spread the word on her bizarrely named far-right blog, Bluftooni:

All you folks in SE PA not going to CPAC, there's a Tea Party protest at Independence Mall on Saturday, 2/28 at noon.

Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...

...the tough get goin'!

Who's with me?

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Well, apparently Blutarsky charged out pretty much alone this time. Here's how the huge protest looked at its height on Saturday:



I count at most about 50 people.

Now take a look at this same area when Obama held his primary-ending rally here last April:



Something tells me we don't have much to be worried about.