senior political analyst brit hume joins us. good evening, brit. good evening, shannon. there s three related characteristics organization, focus and discipline of grassroots movement. the tea party had all three. while it was decentralized, it was cohesive because of intense focus on government spending and debt. its discipline showed in the collective decision to work through the republican party instead of mounting a third-party effort that would likely have ended up helping the democrats. speaking of democrats, some of them, including the president and nancy polossy, have begun to align themselves with the occupy wall street movement in the hope it brings support to the democrats the tea party brought republicans. but the wall street occupiers, and they re growing offshoots around the country seem undisciplined, seen in the skirmishes with police that have broken out in several places. their message, to the extent one can be discerned, might have
senior political analyst brit hume joins us. good evening, brit. good evening, shannon. there s three related characteristics organization, focus and discipline of grassroots movement. the tea party had all three. while it was decentralized, it was cohesive because of intense focus on government spending and debt. its discipline showed in the collective decision to work through the republican party instead of mounting a third-party effort that would likely have ended up helping the democrats. speaking of democrats, some of them, including the president and nancy polossy, have begun to align themselves with the occupy wall street movement in the hope it brings support to the democrats the tea party brought republicans. but the wall street occupiers, and they re growing offshoots around the country seem undiscipned, seen in the skirmishes with police that have broken out in several places. their message, to the extent one can be discerned, might have