i mean, protesting has become a profession now. they have every right to do that, don't get me wrong, but i think we need to call it what it is. it's not these organic uprisings we've seen through the last several decades, the tea party was a very organ movement. this has become a very paid astroturf type movement. >> the white house press secretary sean spicer seems to want to dismiss opposition to republican policies, particularly a desire to repeal the affordable care act as some kind of top-down concoction of lobbyists and think tanks but the mobilization tactics we've seen over the last couple weeks come straight from the play book of the conservative activists who brought us the tea party. and you know what? they're working. so much so, in fact, that republicans seem to be overwhelmed by what's happening at town halls across the country. hundreds of people showed up to an event last weekend held by republican congressman tom mcclintock. he wound up leaving with a police escort after he said he was advised by his staff that the situation outside was "deteriorating." tennessee congressman jimmy