Recommended: The Tea Party Teens

Tomorrow Massachusetts is poised to either give Ted Kennedy's seat to a Republican, or at least give the Democrats a real scare. This is no doubt the result of the "inchoate anger" boiling up in the American populace, and most especially among the independents. In this light, David Brook's Op Ed piece The Tea Party Teens in the New York Times on January 5 is worth reading.

Brooks in not a supporter of the Tea Party movement, but he does think it has the potential to become a defining force in American politics very shortly, if it can successfully capture and channel all this rage in the populace.