U-S-A ! '' Watch rally participants converge on Washington '' On the bus , Johns slips off her heels and slips on a pair of ankle socks . She curls up under a quilt her grandmother made . She favors skirts and cardigans -- a pit bull in cashmere . She leads the rallies in each city with Mark Williams , a former talk radio host who now writes books and makes the rounds on cable TV chat shows . Both work for Our Country Deserves Better , the conservative political action committee sponsoring the Tea Party Express bus tour . The tour concluded Saturday at the U.S. Capitol in Washington after a 34-stop tour that began August 28 in Sacramento , California . Williams is the showman of the bunch . His signature line when he gets the mic goes like this : `` You can have our country when you pry it from our ... cold ... dead ... fingers ! '' Again the crowd erupts . Watch scenes from Tea Party Express rallies '' Seldom seen on stage are the two gurus of the tea party movement , veteran politico Sal Russo and his protégé , Joe
Aboard the Tea Party Express -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- From the stage , Deborah Johns is the angry conscience of the tea party movement . A protester uses a Nazi swastika to make a point at a Tea Party Express stop in Dallas , Texas . `` Question everything your government is doing , '' she tells a crowd of about 100 from the bus 's stage in the parking lot of the Winners casino in Winnemucca , Nevada . Under a setting sun on the steps of the state capitol in Little Rock , Arkansas , Johns says : `` Our men and women took an oath when they put on the uniform to defend and protect this country from enemies both foreign and domestic . I think we 've got some domestic enemies in the White House . '' On a sunny afternoon in Louisville , Kentucky , Johns works the crowd of about 2,000 into a frenzy . `` The men and women in our military did n't fight and die for this country for a communist in the White House , '' she says , and the crowd erupts in a chant of `` U-S-A ,