Meade goes to Washington: Pictures from the Capitol, from just a few minutes ago.

I just spoke to Meade, who arrived in Washington, D.C., after a 22-hour bus ride, in time for the protest at the Capitol. He's taking pictures and video, but what I have right now is from the iPhone:



I think the yellow flags say "Don't Tread on Me" (or as we say around here: Don't Tread on Meade).



Nice soviet-style graphics in this one:



This shows the crowd-size:



Consider that the weather is absolutely beautiful — and either discount the crowd-size or get over there and make it bigger.

I love this guy:



He had a whole traffic-sign theme going:



Meade got his name as David Rothwell — from the eastern shore of Maryland.

And I really love this guy:



Citizen Meade!

I spoke to him from the scene, where the phone battery is close to dying. I'll put up the video of the phone call in a minute, but basically he's having a great time amongst the right-wingers who, he assures me, are not crazy.

ADDED: Here's the video of the phone call:



And Meade texts that he'd like you to see this: