Tea Partiers Debut ‘The 12 Days Of Obama’

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The scheduled tea party “die-in” this morning didn’t exactly live up to the hype. A group of tea partiers gathered this morning and “stormed” Senate offices as planned, but the crowd was smaller than at past events. As for the “dying” part, that didn’t seem to play a large part in the event either. TPMDC noticed no deaths, fake or otherwise, while we were there.

The group that was there did travel far to make it, probably because there’s another tea party event this afternoon sponsored by Americans For Prosperity, the business-backed charity that has paid for tea party buses in the past. Die-iners hailed from as far away as Washington state. Georgia had a large contingent, though unlike others in the group, they didn’t go to visit their senators during the office storm. Instead, they tagged along with the lone tea partier from Connecticut on his way to visit Joe Lieberman.

“We’re lucky — our politicians aren’t the bad ones,” Joy McGann of Atlanta told TPMDC. “We figured we’d go with this man from Connecticut — he’s alone and he needs the help.”

Though there weren’t a lot of them, the tea partiers — as always — showed a lot of enthusiasm for their cause. Before they headed off to the Senate offices, they gave the media a first look at their very own Christmas carol.

Check out their performance of the “12 Days Of Obama”:

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