Has Congress gotten so pathetic that even the protesters aren't bothering to show up?

Fifteen minutes after the rally's scheduled start and here's what we have outside the Russell Senate building: one pink fedora, one pink sun hat and a half-dozen pink T-shirts. Three Capitol Police officers ascend the marble staircase to have a word with Medea Benjamin, the head of Codepink, an antiwar protest group that has come to publicly demand that Congress send no money to Egypt.