Posted on 01/28/2011 11:31:27 AM PST by Glenn
WASHINGTON -- Several times in 2009 and 2010, throngs of tea party protesters stood outside the U.S. Capitol complex airing their grievances with the government. On Thursday, they strolled right in.
The inaugural meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus brought a few dozen activists -- a turnout likely dimmed by the previous night's snowstorm -- and only a handful of senators to a hearing room in a Senate office building. But it was a sign, according to caucus leader and freshman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that the tea party is "co-opting Washington."
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., spoke to the gathering but did not officially join with the caucus -- which counts freshman Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., among its co-founders -- displaying the balancing act he faces in representing a moderate state while acknowledging the conservative forces that swept him into office.
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Did he offer to meet with them in the parking garage-at midnight?
Voicing support for a homosexualized military probably won him a few moderate "cool points."
As long as these guys remember that they are followers and not leaders in this movement, all is fine.
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