THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF THE TEA PARTY:

• “Carville Fears DC Under ‘Total Tea Party Control'” — headline at Newsmax, September 30th, 2011.

• “I don’t know what happened between November of 2010 and January of 2012, but from the looks of things the Tea Party died.” — Opening paragraph of an article titled “When the Tea Party Died” by Kevin McCullough, published on Sunday at Townhall.

You’ve got ten and a half months to prove the latter assumption wrong.