The Tea Party is already the most extraordinary political development in American history. When Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats passed major national legislation without a single vote by the Republican Party they did it with an improper use of a budget procedure.
The Tea Party was a grass roots pro-democracy reaction.
The Tea Party has been extraordinary; first, in its ability to be cohesive for a year and a half and win a major congressional election and second, for its understanding that a third-party, or a movement with political leaders, was inappropriate in contemporary America.
So far the Tea Party goals of reversing the Democrat anti-democratic legislation has not been accomplished. That will require a surge of voters in 2012, more than 3 ½ years after the initial movement began. The surge will need to be in both the Senate and the presidential election to succeed.
Such an event, a successful grassroots movement, maintained for 3 ½ years, will move this extraordinary democratic phenomenon to a level that is unimaginable in the entire course of human events.