When the Tea Party movement emerged last year, it was greeted as grass-roots movements on the right always are — with sneering and derision by those on the left and in the elite media.

Once again, knuckle-dragging troglodytes from flyover backwaters have some ideas about how the country should be run. A few hundred thousand of them even relinquished their white-knuckle grip on their guns and religion long enough to travel to Washington and demand their concerns be heard. How quaint.