Coffee party debut: Sad to the last "drip"

By Jerry McConnell

The weekend of March 13 and 14, 2010 was hailed as the kick-off time for Coffee Parties all across the country which were “billed as the liberal response to the Tea Party movement” as reported by Alex Pappas in the “The Daily Caller” dated 03/13/10 in an article titled: “Low-key java drinkers in Washington kick off Coffee Parties.”

I think I heard a rumor that two individuals who looked suspiciously out of place went into one Washington, DC designated “Coffee Party” shop looking for a gathering of noisy and speech making revelers and were chagrined to find only two people present, and one was drinking hot chocolate. Robert and Rahm were disappointed and as they were leaving they were heard saying, “Let’s go and give Barry the bad news.”

The aforementioned Alex Pappas was a bit more successful in his search for the Coffee Party merry-makers in Washington, DC when at the Peregrine Espresso of the Eastern Market area he found “a small gathering of five activists huddled at a small table.”

The five present consisted of a woman professor on sabbatical from Berkeley, two younger college buddies, and the two “others said they learned about the gathering from Twitter and from word of mouth.”

Pappas concluded his article by stating that while the TEA Party group is trying to “transform the energy of the movement into results” at polls in November, that didn’t “seem to be the goal of these coffee drinkers who appear to rather just enjoy good conversation.”

Remember the old saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” I don’t think those coffee drinkers were in the mood for old sayings and they probably looked like they had been sucking on raw lemons.

That liberal response that was expected probably was more of a soft “Tweet” on “Twitter”.