John Thune has predicted that if Republicans win majorities in Congress but don’t follow through on their promises, it could cause a third party built in the shape of the Tea Party movement to take off.

It’s time they found their outrage again.

The teabaggers are populist only if your idea of populist is a bunch of upper-middle-class people who want to cut off the poor.

The major thing that drives my activism is a desire to see things get better for the people of the United States. The people are the nation, which is something that the Tea Party so-called patriots seem to forget. The recognition that we, as citizens, are all in this together and can’t be constantly only [...]

Kevin Baker nails it

We have been abandoned by Democrats. We need to think and act beyond them.

Why not give “ordinary Americans” a real voice in the media discourse instead of blathering about Sarah Palin’s phony populism?

We need to build a progressive populist movement to counter the lethal combination of Wall Street’s economic domination and the Tea Party’s hatred of all things government.

The much-anticipated National Tea Party Convention rolls into Nashville this coming weekend, but already reports of internal discord are putting a damper on the conservo-populist passions.

In a perfect world, perhaps President Obama and congressional Democrats would adopt my advice to make finally ending the filibuster and “pseudo-filibuster” the centerpiece of a renewed push for liberal-populism. That agenda would include every manner of financial reform, job recovery, and health care proposal that would themselves benefit from finally loosening the filibuster’s grip from around our democratic republic’s neck.