"Everyone's been so nice"

They came bearing Gadsden flags, quoting Thomas Jefferson and promising to take back the country. But when tea partiers stormed the Hill Tuesday to demand that Democrats dump their health care bill, they were met mostly with accommodating staff and cordial lawmakers.

“We met with Congressman [John] Dingell; he was very polite,” one elderly tea partier marveled to a group of her comrades as they chatted in the hall of the Longworth building. “Everyone’s been so nice.”…

“It was like a high school classroom,” an aide to one lawmaker who hosted tea partiers noted glumly. “It was so boring.”