A funny thing happened on the way to ABC’s This Week round table yesterday. The circle turned into a hexagon.

Instead of the usual balance of two—occasionally three—commentators from both political perspectives, ABC’s special Independence Day edition featured a 5-on-1 lib-to-con tilt. Crammed into the liberal corner were Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia “The People Are Stupid” Tucker, Bloomberg’s Al” Tea-Party Hater“  Hunt, Nobel-laureate Paul “Stimulus Maximus” Krugman, and Univision anchor/illegal immigrant amnesty proponent Jorge Ramos.

Looking a little lonely over in the cobwebbed conservative corner was Dan Senor, former Republican foreign policy advisor to “W,” husband of Campbell Brown,and founding partner of Rosemont Capital.

Hey, that’s a pentagon, not a hexagon. No, you just forgot to add Jake Tapper, the discussion’s—cough—impartial moderator. Now we’ve got all six sides of our wobbly table. Yet despite the flawed design of the furniture, nevertheless it was the “Senor moments” that carried the day.

One of the main issues addressed by our hexagon of heated haranguers was how best to foster economic recovery.

To no one’s surprise, all except Senor parroted the administration’s position that we desperately need more stimulus. Stimulus Maximus called the first stimulus bill—nearly a trillion dollars—a “half measure” (!) and says it’s time to double-down. Tucker, in a beautifully-timed fourth-of-July display of disdain for the muddle-headed hoi polloi (you and me), empathized about how “the people” were “confused” by the word “stimulus,” and praised Democrats for rightly rebranding the next handout as a “jobs bill.” To her, we’re too stupid to understand what “stimulus” means yet stupid enough to be fooled by the new marketing campaign. (more…)

The Democrats and their activist old media are running in circles and working themselves into pretzels trying to define the “Tea Party” movement. It can be quite entertaining to watch.  They really have no idea what is happening right in front of their eyes. The media would have an easier time reading Mandarin Chinese than they would deciphering the signs at a Tea Party rally.

You could argue that they don’t want to understand what they are seeing because that means they would have to admit that Democrats have lost the beloved grass roots that they claim to have had forever, and I would not disagree. But, for the moment, let’s just say that they are really trying hard to figure this out and it’s just not sinking in to their brilliant Ivy League minds.

Let’s give them a little hint:

Sunday on Meet the Press, Dee Dee Myers, the former Clinton press secretary, took a stab at defining the Tea Party movement. “I’m not sure exactly where this is going….is it a third party, is it part of the Republican Party?” (more…)