Headline encapsulates the whole movement:

Tea Partiers at U.S. Capitol pay homage to Bachmann

Homage… to Michele Bachmann.

Oh, and they claim the crowd size:

While Palin was nowhere in sight, the Minnesota Republican assured a crowd of several thousand that despite her pending retirement from Congress, “I’m here to say to the liberals I’m here for a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long time.” (That’s eight “longs” for those keeping track).