It is comforting to watch and hear from the liberal elites dismiss the growing Tea Party movement as some out-of-control Klan rally,  pocketed with paranoid back-woods knuckle-dragger’s.  This weekend over a million  everyday Americans, including many from Connecticut, came to Washington, D.C. on their own dimes, the mainstream media continues to pull the shades and smirk.  The million mark came from credible third party sources, including liberal European newspapers who are more in love with Barack Obama than their American cousins.

There were no buses paid for by big unions or George Soros to haul people to the Capitol to wave per-printed signs. There were no orchestrated responses from pre-selected orators or fawning media coverage.

Those who gathered at the Washington Mall and near the Capitol were people fed up with the largest takeover of our economy since the New Deal, or may ever.

Columnists like Frank Rich and Gail Collins of the New York Times call these protests part of a  lost summer and blame President Obama for letting them get the best of him. 

Jay Howser, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd’s campaign manager, said the Tea Party crowd was a dangerous side show:

“The great thing about the far right wing, extreme group of tea bagger’s- who have entertained us throughout the summer is that their idea of free speech is akin to shouting down opposition, drowning out debate, and in Connecticut, encouraging Sen. Dodd to commit suicide with painkillers and alcohol,” er said Jay Howser.

The Huffington Post did their thing on cue, sending out a photographer to grab the silly signs and imply they spoke for the entire grassroots organization.  And with each passing night, the liberal apologist of the ariwaves get more hysterical about U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson on South Carolina. Right now, Rep. Wilson may set the Internet record for fundraising – both pro and con.

Meanwhile, there is no evidence to suggest that the Tea Party revolt is waning. Rather, it seems to be getting stronger at both the macro and micro levels. More and more groups are organizing in Connecticut on-line through Facebook and other social networks. 

In Connecticut , Tea Party activists are making regular public  appearances  in Democratic towns and cities, like Meriden and Stamford, to simply protest the Obama health plan and the Democrat’s recent state budget.

The Democrat’s strategy is to marginalize, to  pick a few “Black Helicopter” wing nuts out of the crowd with their crude and inappropriate signs and say “see, they are crazy, don’t bother your time with them. They are not Americans.”

The signs and costumes seen at Tea Party rallies, including Sunday’s in D.C. are tame compared to some of the liberal protests that have been conducted over the years, particularly against President Bush and Vice President Cheney or any other Republican leader. Both Bush and Cheney were routinely compared to Adolf Hitler, who is the gold standard of diss.  No one from the New York Times editorial board ever cpplains about that street theater nor when House Democrats vehimately booed President George W. Bush during his 1995 State of the Union address when he spoke about fixing Social Security.

The more the liberals throw their hands up and say “what are we going to do with these people?” the more the people get stronger and eager for a real change.