wired.com. he the bureau chief of wired.com. we have been talking about the tea party which is looking more like a political party. in fact, today, it has the first national convention kicking off in nashville. in fact, just now, registration is about to open. you can see that there are people with strong, strong opinions that you can see from effigies and posters. how has this movement grown so kickly? we will talk about that in a minute. ah, you know, we will talk about it right now. first of all, i want to tell you about the tea party movement and where it all started. back in 2009, it was sort of the first most people heard about it. february 10th, 2009, one woman protested wasteful spending in ft. myers, florida. by february 16th of last year, there were dozens of protesters actually, and they were protesting the government stimulus plan which we have been digging into here in seattle. by february 27th, dozens of