The TeaParty Is, as you suspected, Astroturf

The only people who dont know this is the brain dead fox tv viewers. they cant read.

I once passed by a Tea Party rally in '10,
taking place next to where one changes buses.

There were less than 10 people there,
in a square that can hold hundreds,
but the piped-in music was loud,
and ALL the local TV stations were covering the event.

I am always amazed when I see the fox crew, sitting on sofas together, with the women barely covered by short skirts . . . the beavershot network.

Some tea partiers used to come to Northampton, MA on Saturday at the same time as the farmers' market when one intersection is full of demonstrators. It isn't on the level of Washington Square Park because it is much smaller. I am not around many Saturday mornings because I spend time with my daughter's daughter then but the tea party seems to have given up.