Hanson: Where did the tea party anger come from?

Victor David Hanson sums up perfectly, as usual, in his most erudite voice, the reasons the tea parties exist. Read it all and rejoice that someone has defined it:

You were had

After 18 months, the people feel they have been had—in the way that a blow-dried mansion living, philandering John Edwards is hardly an advocate for the “other America”, or green-scheming, instant multi-millionaire Al Gore is hardly a disinterested advocate for welcoming reasonable debate about a sustainable planet. Prophets fall harder, especially when “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” prove to be a reflective of the Chicago way, the snooty ineptness of the Harvard lounge, and the shrill leftism of SEIU.

Rangel, Dodd, Geithner, the Blago mess, the lobbyists, the earmarks, and the political bribes to pass health care together have convinced half the electorate in just a few months that Obama is not merely not a reformer, but perhaps the most ethically compromised president since Bill Clinton or Richard Nixon.