A YEAR AGO: The first “Tea Party” protest, before they were even named “tea party” protests. Yet Thomas Frank is still making the tired and discredited claim that it’s all astroturf. Those organizations Frank mentions are trying to catch the wave of popular protest; they’re not the source of the wave. That’s something I wrote about almost a year ago.

UPDATE: From the comments on Frank’s piece: “Anyway, a more truthful headline might have read: Obama administration is no great change. Scratch the surface and some familiar Beltway names appear.” Heh.