Is this the Tea Party decade?

The TEA Party should move to become a real party in conjunction with the Libertarian Party which knows the rules of the game. The LI could help provide ballot access in return for an explicitly libertarian platform.

Debate is burning over projections that the "anti-intellectual" Tea Party is poised to dominate American politics

We're seeing an unmistakable shift in American politics, says New York Times columnist David Brooks — and not from left to right. Americans are increasingly turning on the "educated class" that Obama represents and embracing the "fractious," isolationist, anti-intellectual Tea Party movement. According to Brooks, the Tea Partiers — like 1960s hippies or the Religious Right — are the "passionate outsiders" who will "force themselves into the center of American life" and potentially "shape this coming decade." Are we at the cusp of Tea Party rule, or is Brooks misreading the tea leaves? (Watch Michael Steele say Republicans should "embrace" the Tea Party)