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Little frustrated with the fact nothing is getting done in congress, nothing is being getg done in congress and frustrated with the fact they say the federal government isn't working for them. that is something you hear from the more conservative tea party actists. they may share some of the grievances, they goals are different. the tea party calls for a down sizing of the federal government, people here want to fix the government and reform it and make it work for americans. >> so annabel park came up with the idea for the coffee party. there she is. she joins us from washington to talk about...

Anti-tax rhetoric, fiscal conservative. now we have the coffee partiers. who are they? what's their mission? >> you kind of mentioned right off the bat there, they say that they're in a way they want to be an alternative version, a progressive version, a liberal version of the tea party movement. and annabel park, you saw her in lisa sylvester's piece, she started it at the beginning of the year. she was a little upset about the mainstream media's coverage of the tea party movement and she started talking about it on facebook. and do you know what? she got a lot of replies. she started a fan p...

It's still way too soon. we're only two months in to this. >> we heard in lisa sylvester's piece, some people are saying it's political froth, maybe they are not drinking the coffee, but the kool-aid, who knows. we'll find out. >> they also point out that annabel park, you saw in the piece, that annabel park was a volunteer for the obama administration, she doesn't think it's any big deal, that the coffee party doesn't align itself with the republicans or the democrats. >> we'll see. paul steinhauser, we'll be talking to you about the first coffee day. meantime, as the first day, hillary cli...

Government, the federal government is too big, the coffee party seems to kind of want to work with washington and change it, not downsize or downscale it, but, with them to make it better for regular citizens. >> what is happening? i don't know if this is the unofficial or official kickoff for the coffee party movement, raise the glass of joe at coffeehouses around the country essentially to what? >> yeah this is the unofficial kickoff, annabel park said 150 events are covering at coffeehouses from the west coast to the east coast, we'll be covering one in washington, d.c., to see who will sho...