One year and one day ago, Mark Meckler was known locally mostly for creating Cafe Mekka, the popular Nevada City hangout he opened in 1993 and ran for five years with his wife, Patty.Then Meckler attended a hastily organized "Tea Party" on the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento - and catapulted himself onto the national political stage.Since then, Meckler has crisscrossed the country as one of the co-founders of the Tea Party Patriots. He has emerged as one of the public faces of the admittedly amorphous movement, giving interviews to the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Christian Science …