The Little Sherlocks

Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal on the "unsustainable" debt crisis.

The people, of course, saw the crisis coming before most politicians did, and every elected official in Washington is now quick to preface interviews with, "The people were ahead of us on this." They say this with an air of discovery, the little Sherlocks. The people were ahead of them. Public concern began to deepen in the polls after the introduction of the new spending bills that followed the crash of 2008. Voter concern was made vivid in the 2009 and 2010 elections, when centrists voted like old-style Republicans who worried about red ink.

Yes, Peggy, this is what the Tea Party was all about when you and all the beltway Solons were smearing it as knuckle-dragging redneck racists.