What's Next for the Tea Parties?

Tax protest tea parties are popping up all over the country, and although they've gotten a small amount of attention and decent attendance, they're a long way from being a real force for change. Mark Tapscott has some suggestions for where the movement should go next:

Where should the Tea Party Protests go next? Here are three suggestions:

* Where are House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele? They should be challenged to get involved because the Tea Party Protests represents their greatest leverage against the Obama policy onslaught.

* The next round of protests should focus on places like Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home district office and those of other Democratic leaders "back home." Their home turf is Washington, ours is their home districts. For years, Jesse Jackson, ACORN and others on the Left have used Saul Alinksky's tactic of targeted public pressure on banks, corporations and Supreme Court Justices. It's time to give them a taste of the fact it works both ways. Not violently, but with sufficient vigor to drive the point home.

* March on the White House and Congress. Great movements need great goals. Gather millions of signatures on Tea Party Protests Petitions. Set a summer date for delivery in person. By hundreds of thousands of Tea Party Protesters from across the country.

And that will just be the start.

Good ideas all. The only thing that will force the media to cover this phenomenon is numbers, big numbers. It doesn't hurt to show creativity and humor in the process, and some of the signs I've seen at the early protests have been really good.