Sorry I didn't reply to this sooner. I hope Monday's article helped (it'll give you some historical information if nothing else)! Please let us know how it went.

I will be very interested to see the (non-Fox) media coverage of the protests. Will they paint the whole thing as whackadoodles ranting? Or will they take it seriously? Or will it actually BE a bunch of whackadoodles ranting, or will they manage to cohesively get their message out? I even tried to be nice to them in Monday's column, by offering some advice. I'll be interested to see what happens tomorrow, though.

-CW

I'm planning a trip Wednesday to cover the teabaggers teabagging in a city that exists because of government spending. The organizer of the tea party wants me to come on his talk radio show now. Please advise...

Just answered about a week's worth of comments, so go take a look at anything you posted earlier. While doing so, I noticed that this week's offerings were a bit thin on this site, and I promise next week will be better.

Stan -

That's how I read it too -- puppy introduction with the Easter Egg Roll on Monday.

I think millions of Americans would agree with me that the position of First Cat needs filling as well. Hmmph.

Michale -

My teabag comments were a bit snarky, I admit, but hey, they're the ones that decided on the protest's format. What I think is going to happen is that the protests just aren't going to really have much of a centralized theme, but rather be a mishmash of messages, some reasonable, and some very fringe indeed. This is a danger of any protest, and the left falls into making this mistake often on their own, so it's not really the tea party folks' fault, more the nature of the beast. I could be wrong, and will reserve judgment until Wednesday, but the only thing Obama has done so far (except for smokers) has been to LOWER their taxes. Which kind of undercuts their protest from the start. But, again, we'll see how things go Wednesday, I could be surprised, I fully admit.

-CW

Say it ain't so!!!

/sarcasm :D

I tend to be VERY offensive when it comes to the crutch that is religion (see what I mean!!) so I'll just refrain from further comment on THAT issue...

Don't have much else to say about your TPs.. Just seems to be so much "Everything GOP is bad/evil and everything Democrat is good and righteous." type stuff..

But your Tea Party/Bag point is WAY off.. Do you honestly believe that such an important point in our US history (not to mention the gross mis-handling of the economy of late) should be painted in such a light??

I mean, what else can Joe Q do when the standard and on-going solution to economic crisis is to simply throw more tax-payer money at it?

Ya'all like numbers.. What was the proposed budget for 2010?? 4 TRILLION DOLLARS!!???? How can ANYONE justify or even AGREE with that???

Michale.....

On the talking points I hope #6 means we will be introduced to the new puppy on Monday.

...Stan