Our recent story on "America's $1 Bill Protest" picked up quite a bit of steam on the internet. In less than three days, it received thousands of hits here at ROBservations and at its Examiner.com entry spot.  

The article was quickly picked up by other news distribution sites, too, and even got high ranking on the website of a national progressive television network.

On the website of Current TV, the story was ranked fifth in popularity for a while.

Not bad for a narrow-niche blog, eh? 

Of course, other big national news came out the next day, but we're still on the list - right now at 33, and still right above the Doug "tar baby" Lamborn story that's all over the news, too. 

Which makes me hope that awareness of 'America's $1 Bill Protest' is still going around, too. 

It's a national protest of sorts about unfair corporate taxes, and in which everyone can participate.  

Best of all, you don't have to spend a dime to do it (aside from the dollars you're already spending anyway).

Rick Horowitz from MPTV’s “Interchange” tells how both major parties are humoring the Tea Party in D.C., and why they shouldn’t anymore.

The longer we continue to “humor” them by overlooking their “symbolic” gestures and statements, the worse off we’ll be in the long run, says Horowitz. 

“How much damage can they do?” Horowitz asks slyly in closing. And you know what? We came very close to finding out.

This video was first released on July 24, right before the crisis on budget and default came to a head two days later. The ordeal in Congress was then carelessly and senselessly extended until the very last moment; only late this morning, just 12 hours before the string holding our country together would have been axed, was it finally resolved. And it was the Tea Party assembly in congress that made damn sure it got extended to that point, too.

And if it didn’t leave a bad-enough taste in the mouths of all Americans, we South Carolinians are left with even more bitterness stuck under our tongues.  Our state’s House representatives joined up under the Tea Party tent to do all they could to stop any progress, even getting attention from national media, which described their behavior as “South Carolina vs. the world.”

South Carolina voters should keep this in mind as the 2012 election season nears, and should remember Horowitz’s key advice: “Don’t let them get away with it.”