A couple of years ago, thousands of folks crammed Kanawha Plaza in Richmond, in cool, overcast and sometimes rainy conditions for the tea party rally. Last year’s rally featured nice warm conditions, but far fewer people, in the same spot. This year, it was “hundreds” who made the trek.

It does make one wonder whether the juice is going out of the tea party movement, at least in Virginia. Not because its over-arching concerns with the nation’s fiscal direction have been solved, let alone addressed, but because anger is very hard to sustain, particularly in Virginia.