Jonah, you suggest that tea partiers concentrate on “the economy, the size of government, the debt, the deficit, taxes, and so on.” That seems a bit too narrow. For many of the tea partiers, the overarching issue is the government’s infidelity to the Constitution. If a return to the Constitution is what they’re after, then some of the issues you (and Mitch Daniels) consider extraneous are part of their core mission.