As I posted Tuesday, some people took time off to protest yesterday. I am not sure what exactly they object to or what they want. It appears that they don't like paying taxes and they object to government spending. Although they may not have realized it, their real purpose was to help News Corp (NYSE: NWS) to whip up the faithful who watch Fox News and boost its viewership so it can sell advertising.

How did things turn out for those folks? Yesterday a few hundred people stood in the rain outside the White House and a few hundred more did the same in Philadelphia. But in places like Texas and Utah, there were more tea baggers. 1,000 cheered Governor Rick Perry who suggested in Austin that Texas might secede from the U.S. And a crowd booed Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah for accepting $1.5 billion in federal stimulus money.

Here's the thing. There are 300 million people in this country and enough of them vote so that the thousands of people who showed up at the 750 teabagging ceremonies are not likely to make any difference -- even if they could figure out what they wanted to see change. Nevertheless, they have every right to voice their opinions and with the exception of the White House protest -- which was stopped when a protester threw a package onto the White House lawn -- they did.

There seem to be a few folks with too much time on their hands and a huge amount of frustration over losing last November. And tomorrow they're going to have a little party -- a nationwide protest in 500 cities and towns is scheduled for Wednesday -- to let everyone know just how angry they are. I support their right to express their opinion about how the government is spending "their" money. As long as they pay their taxes, their tea bagging ceremonies are a little bit like throwing spitballs in a sixth grade history class.

If tea baggers were real patriots though, they would come up with real alternatives to fix the problems about which they're complaining. As best as I can tell, the teabaggers were inspired by an on-air rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli back on February 19 who complained that Obama's $75 billion bailout of mortgage defaulters "rewarded bad behavior." Interestingly, Santelli has no problem with the other $12.725 trillion -- out of a total of $12.8 trillion -- being spent to bail out Wall Street's bad behavior.