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It is amusing to see this sort of miscalculation on the part of political "experts" - apparently they can't conceive of a movement that isn't top-down, funded by heavies, represented by professional public-relations specialists, and directed by a team of ruling-class elitists. Can't even imagine such a thing could be real. There must be a shadowy cabal behind it - the Koch brothers, yeah, that's the ticket.

These are going to be some very confused people in the months preceding the next election. No, boys and girls, it isn't Rush Limbaugh, Ron or Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, or even Sarah Palin. Best of luck arresting James Madison and Patrick Henry.

Very true.

This guy may be a complete DB, especially on the “support all the Constitution” nonsense, but his analysis of Schumer’s speech is dead on.

But also incomplete. What’s really happening here is a little thing called “projection”: Schumer and the Dems view the Tea Party through the lenses of how their own “grassroots” efforts are organized and controlled by the Party elite.

Remember how, when the Tea Party got rolling, Dems were tossing about accusations of it being “astroturff”? They were doing that becase THAT is exactly how they operate, and they have no real concept that a genuine grassroots movement is capable of quickly springing up and playing a serious role in the national debate. The concept is completely foreign to them, they just can’t see how such a thing is even possible. Someone/something/some ... power MUST be behind it.

It also says everthing that we need to know about THEIR grassroots (er, astroturf) organizations.