A REPORT FROM YESTERDAY’S “TEA PARTY” PROTEST in Columbia, Missouri: “Hundreds of people gathered at Columbia’s Flat Branch Park on Thursday afternoon to protest President Obama’s stimulus package with an old-fashioned tea party. . . . Rusty Gowin was recently laid off at Columbia’s Square D manufacturing plant. Rusty and hundreds of other like him attended the modern day tea party to show their protest. Americans dressed up as Indians at the first Boston Tea Party where they dumped barrels of tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes. These modern protestors say tea is the only thing they have in common with the original tea party protest. . . . Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, a spokesman for congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer and former Columbia State Representative Ed Robb addressed the crowd at the Columbia tea party protest.”