Tea Party Lobby Day: Weak Brew | Mother Jones | Hill Talk | Hill ...

On Tuesday afternoon, anti-health care reform Tea Party activists were buzzing inside a cramped 10-by-10 foot meeting room in the Capitol Hill Suites Hotel, a few blocks from the Capitol dome. This “war room” had previously been set up by conservative new media activist Michael Patrick Leahy, author of Rules for Radical Conservatives, a book based on the grassroots organizing tactics of Saul Alinsky. Volunteers have been staffing the room since March 9 and said they plan ...