National Coffee Party Day Flops

Anti-tea movement kicks off with record crowds

Its looking like thousands of Americans are saying "That's just not our cup of Coffee". Reports from CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, National Public Radio, Washington Post, Seattle Times and dozens of other outlets over the last couple weeks indicated this event would rival the size of Woodstock.




During the early part of last year, The Tea Party movement had over 2000 meetings on April 15th and ended up flooding Washington, DC with some 1.5 million peaceful America loving, tax hating protesters which caused a surge in the use of toilet paper in both Houses of Congress.

In contrast, it seems Coffee Party participation rivals that of the Liberal talk radio successes. Peregrine Espresso in DC's Eastern Market district reported about "five activists sitting around a small table pooling their money to buy one cup of Espresso". CodePink and Andy Shallal had CNN camera coverage of about 50 people also in DC as reported by a Huffington post columnist. In Kansas reports of huge crowds swelling up to 40 were encountered. Crowd size appeared to average around 20 or so as reported on The Coffee Party USA website. A gathering in San Francisco lists 15 attendees; Blacksburg, Va., lists 6. The coffee party at Hyde Park in Chicago, where President Obama lived for years, apparently only managed three. The organizer of a coffee party in Winston-Salem, N.C., however, claimed the website underestimated the size of his gathering, listing attendees at 18, while 28 actually signed in.

The coffee party movement got its start only a few weeks ago when documentary filmmaker Annabel Park felt frustrated both over the news coverage the tea parties were receiving and over a perceived lack of representation of her viewpoints in Washington. Park claims, "We need to wake up and work hard to get our government to represent us," . "The health-care debate showed not only that we are a very divided country, but there's something really wrong with our political process. We kind of got to see the innards of the political process and realize there's something very broken. I think that's what we're responding to."

"Let's start a coffee party – a Red Bull party – anything but tea," she wrote. "Let's get together and drink cappuccino and have real political dialogue with substance and compassion ." Its vividly apparent they have large volumes of caffeine running through their veins. Despite the "anything but tea" comment, Park doesn't want to see the coffee party chocked up as just an anti-tea party movement. "It's a response to how they are trying to change our government," Park said . "It's their methodology that we are against. We may want some of the same things, but their journey is so alienating to us." As word spread through MSM, they tripped all over themselves asking for interviews in an obvious attempt in concert with the White House to drive the Tea Party movement into the ground once and for all.

In retrospect, it appears America at this point prefers Tea as their beverage of political choice.