Linda Hernandez is a Tea Party activist in Maryland. She spent many days last summer yelling at her television, she says, in reaction to the health care debate. Then she became involved with a local Tea Party group online.
She joined several busloads of Tea Party activists in Washington last week.
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They protested outside the president's health care meeting with Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
LINDA HERNANDEZ: "Today we’re here because we’re against the health care bill. We feel like it’s wrong. It’s a power grab for the government.”
Ron Kirby is a member of the Northern Virginia Tea Party and Tea Party Patriots.
RON KIRBY: "Most of us don’t feel that the government makes the best decisions for us. We would rather make our own decisions."
So what might those be? Political scientist John McGlennon at the College of William and Mary in Virginia says it is too soon to know.
APSarah Palin addresses speaking at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 6th
JOHN MCGLENNON: "I think the Tea Party movement is a very amorphous one right now that is really a collection of people who are frustrated, angry or worried, but who don’t necessarily either have the same basic objectives, nor necessarily agree with each other about the best ways to move forward. Their general uniting force is just that they’re unhappy right now with the way things are.”
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