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Will the Real Tea Party Please Stand Up?

A group of disgruntled Tennessee Tea Partiers held a guerilla press conference in an adjacent lobby to the National Tea Party Convention here in Nashville this afternoon. Their message was about as organized as the movement itself – proudly “grassroots,” meaning verging on chaos.

“We wanted the average citizen – not …

HCAN Protests AHIP

A dispatch from TIME’s Sophia Yan:

“Congress, We Are Watching You!” was scrawled across handmade signs, bobbing above the heads of the few hundred rallied by Health Care for America Now to show support for a public option. “We need a public option, not a stock option,” shouted one woman. Some came out to support family