There was Representative Michele Bachmann, conservative darling and all Minnesota nice, cheerfully raging against "gangster government." "Two years from now, Barack Obama is a one-term president!" she taunted, the words echoing off the surrounding walls. Honestly, it was hard not to stop at the spectacle on Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, where several thousand Americans had gathered to celebrate their anger on a perfect spring day. On the campaign trail candidates focus on the economy.Sponsors of political attack ads hide behind cloak of nonprofit privacy.
Listen to other Here & Now political coverage: In "Boiling Mad," excerpted below, Zernike explores the Tea Party's roots and its relevance in today's political spectrum. But some say it's an authentic popular movement "powerful enough to confound a new administration and unhinge the Republican Party." Kate Zernike is national correspondent for the New York Times, and author of " Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America," which chronicles the rise of the Tea Party. Facebook Email The Tea Party has been called "astroturf" - a fake grassroots movement managed by conservative groups like Dick Armey's FreedomWorks and the bus-tour sponsoring Tea Party Express run by veteran GOP political operative Sal Russo.
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