Mau-Mauing Congress: Tea Partiers Plan to Surround the Capitol at 3PM or 5PM, Depending on Parking

Depending on whose Twitter feed you follow,“Kill the Bill” activists are hoping to materialize a flash-mob of tired, cranky, should-have-peed-before-we-left-the-bus-station Constipatriots to surround the Cannon House Office Building somewhere around the time President Obama is scheduled to meet with the assembled Democratic House caucus.

Andrea Shea King has posted a photo of the Capitol crowd as of 12:38PM, taken by Florida Republican Congressman Bill Posey from inside the besieged People’s House.

Capitol Police earlier established a “safety perimeter” around the Capitol grounds, and have indicated that they will be on guard against any attempts to “magically levitate” the Cannon Office Building or storm the vending area for juice drinks and late-day blood-sugar boosts.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 03/20/10 at 02:26 PM • Permalink

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Nate Silver puts total crowd estimates across the nation at roughly 250,000—- less than the crowd at one anti-war protest in NYC.

Turnout in NYC for this little costume drama: 2,000—about the size of the crowd waiting for the portajons at the last Indian Independence Day parade.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 03/20/10 at 03:40 PM

They may only be a small fringe, but they’re sure an ugly one.

Comment by sean on 03/20/10 at 03:50 PM

Oops, that was for the sixteenth. The super-accurate (snark! bitter, bitter snark) Glenn Reynolds has photos and an estimate of thirty-thousand in DC—“and they just keep coming!”

Still plenty of acreage available, apparently. And groups of Tea-partiers are running around yelling epithets at Democratic congressmen in the Longworth building. I don’t have to tell you what they yelled at Barney Frank.

Dare I mention the word “thugs” in its proper context?

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 03/20/10 at 04:01 PM

Yeah, Weigel (his Twitter site) has been working his usual wingnut beat today - presumably he’ll write some of it up when he gets to a keyboard - and posting the occasional photo of some of the banners and their charming bearers who are gathered in DC today - a fine example here.

Other than his occasional shots at ACORN - which may be intended as ironic or sarcastic, or may be his version of beat sweeteners intended to win over would-be sources (I cannot yet tell) - he does a pretty good job covering these nuts. Good thing for him he’s a “respectable-looking” white dude.

Comment by meepmeep09 on 03/20/10 at 04:12 PM

I’m keeping watch on the WingNet to see if any of this turns ugly. Letting these loons physically intimidate people in their offices is one step short of mob rule…which, of course, is pretty much what the Tea Partiers believe the Founders wanted.

Fortunately, the numbers are pretty pathetic by “mob” standards.

PS: We just got pinged by Andrea Shea King herself, so everybody wave!

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 03/20/10 at 04:14 PM

Hahaha, such sweet comedians those wingnuts are (photo):

WARNING: If Brown can’t stop it, a Browning can

Comment by meepmeep09 on 03/20/10 at 04:38 PM

Unconfirmed reports give the rough rally attendance as 25,000—or roughly the same amount of people who show up for “Have a Steeler Third-Stringer Throw Up in Your Lap” Day at Heinz Field.

Entrance to the Capitol by nutbags with pitchforks, ridiculous Paul Revere outfits or a deep, uneasy sense that the world is moving forward them has now been blocked.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 03/20/10 at 04:51 PM

well it worked in FL in 2000, why not in DC in 2010?

Comment by jron on 03/20/10 at 06:41 PM

Unconfirmed reports give the rough rally attendance as 25,000—or roughly the same amount of people who show up for “Have a Steeler Third-Stringer Throw Up in Your Lap” Day at Heinz Field.

Wow, as usual, conservatives seem to be very bad at math.

Take a look at that infamous “noon view from the Speaker’s Lobby” photo yourself. Click on it and you can blow it up large enough to do your own independent rough count.

Even though the shape spreads out as you go back, the front row is between 70-100 people at most at all points and is only about 20-25 people rows deep.

Even if you count in the outlying stragglers in the open areas in the back, you are looking at a total crowd that is 2000-3000 AT BEST.

Simple math. 2000-3000, Not 25 K.