UPDATED

About 600 people turned out this morning for the tea party along San Diego bay — though none donned Indian garb like the original tax revolters. Michelle Malkin says fiscal responsibility is the new counterculture … how sad is that? She’s got a bunch of photos and dispatches from attendees (there’s more here).

I just wish the whole thing had been a bit more organized, or at least with some more lead time. Admittedely, I’ve been a bit off the map, but I didn’t hear about the tea parties until a couple of days ago. It would have been great for the organizers to start announcing the rallies a couple of weeks in advance, to really get the word out, create buzz and garner more coverage (i.e., the day without a Mexican a couple of years back).

Besides, we could use a little time to get our outfits together.

Hopefully this continues.

UPDATE

There’s some good coverage out there

The Christian Science Monitor has a good story about the tea parties:

Several thousand neopatriots – some shouting “Give me liberty or give me death!” – took to the streets in over 30 US cities Friday, representing what some of them call the beginning of a new conservative counterculture in America.

“The spark has been lit,” says Ben Mihalski, a “house husband” from Cobb County, Ga., one of at least 300 protesters who gathered in a hefty downpour outside the Georgia Capitol on Friday to protest what they see as profligate spending by Washington.

Let’s hope he’s right.