Fox & Friends' Carlson encourages viewers: "You can still have a virtual tea party"

"You can still have a virtual tea party!  It's not too late!  You can still have one!  Go to TheFoxNation.com and sign up for one, now! Please!"

"Look, at least just go to our site and sign in to our guestbook, so we can CLAIM you attended a virtual tea party!"

"Never mind, we'll just count every person estimated to be listening to this broadcast as having attended a virtual tea party, because this show itself is one!  Thanks for participating!"

 They did not have an effect.  Here is today's reality:  Obama is still the President and the Democratic Party is still the majority.  Looks like Faux wasted months of promotion and advertising for nothing.  It's going to be a looooooooong 8 years for you reich-wingers if you're already having this size of a hissy fit in the first 3 months.   Enjoy.

Yup, they are definitely juuusssssst reporting, see? No advocating or promoting here, just move on ...

"98% of the country is paying LESS in taxes thanks to OBAMA, and the law that increases taxes in 2011 on the ramaining 2% was signed by BUSH!"

That's the problem NGE...

The vast majority of the hundreds of dozens of people that showed up at those idiotic tea bagging parties think that by wearing 1790's garb and wearing tea bags on their hats is doing something for themselves... 

If Obama repealed all the Reagan tax cuts... all of them... nearly every one of those people that wasted their time showing up to these 'rallies' would enjoy an economic boom the likes of which have not been seen since.... well... before Reagan was president!

How else to explain the utter hatred of FDR & Jimmy Carter by the right-wing corporations and their little paid for whores!

This entire event was a direct refelction of the non-campaign that John McCain ran this last year.  The website 538 had visited many locations on the campaign trail for both camps.

Their reporters described campaign headquarters for the Republican nominee as...

"Offices in Troy, Ohio were closed on Saturday October 11. With perfect coincidental timing, two elderly women dropped by to volunteer but found the office shut. At Republican state headquarters in Columbus later the same day, one lonely dialer sat in a sea of unoccupied chairs. In Des Moines on September 25, another empty office. In Santa Fe on September 17, one dialer made calls while six chatted amongst themselves about how they didn't like Obama. In Raleigh this past Saturday, ten days before the election with early voting already open, two women dialed and a male staffer watched the Georgia-LSU game. In Durango, Colorado on September 20, the Republican office was locked and closed. Indiana didn't have McCain Victory offices when we were there in early October."

You can read the entire article here.

 What this tea party really needed was a good community organizer.  To bad that the right looks down on the position of community organizer as something to be scoffed, laughed at, or just not taken seriously.

Obama once wrote,

"In theory, community organizing provides a way to merge various strategies for neighborhood empowerment. Organizing begins with the premise that (1) the problems facing inner-city communities do not result from a lack of effective solutions, but from a lack of power to implement these solutions; (2) that the only way for communities to build long-term power is by organizing people and money around a common vision; and (3) that a viable organization can only be achieved if a broadly based indigenous leadership — and not one or two charismatic leaders — can knit together the diverse interests of their local institutions."

I think that pretty much sums it up as to why these "tea parties" were such a lack luster event.