One-in-four adults (25%) say they personally know someone who attended a tea party protest. That figure includes just one percent (1%) of those in the Political Class.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics2/51_view_tea_parties_favorably_political_class_strongly_disagrees
They are scared. No doubt about it. These Tea Parties are AWESOME because they go around the MSM media and especially around the nat'l MSM! Most read about their local Tea Party in their local paper which directly quoted participants and showed pictures. Many people drove by and saw the protesters. This is a good thing!
Rasmussen has Obambi at +3 today - 33% strongly approve, 30% strongly disapprove. If Bush had those numbers in less than 100 days, and had 1 million people protest in every state, the media would be screaming for him to resign.
Instead, they fawn all over Obambi him while he makes a bumbling fool of himself, and the country.