Is Tea Party Express Focused on the Patriot Act?
Date of Tea Party Town Hall media event in Washington, DC organized by Tea Party Express: February 8, 2011
Date of vote on H.R. 514, a bill to reauthorize provisions of the Patriot Act: February 8, 2011
Number of “tweets” published on Twitter by Tea Party Express on February 8, 2011: 22
Number these tweets having to do with the Patriot Act: 0
If the Tea Party Express is as much at the center of the Tea Party movement as it asserts it is, then its failure to mention the Patriot Act on the day it held the stage in Washington, DC and also on the day Patriot Act reauthorization was voted on in Congress is a sign that the Patriot Act is not of central importance to the Tea Party movement.
