They rode to power on the back of a populist movement driven by incoherent anger and fear. Now the new GOP lawmakers in the House are starting to find out just how crazy the teabaggers can be, as the “Tea Party Patriots” make a last minute demand that GOP members attend their event instead of an orientation by the Claremont Institute — and release the politicians’ personal phone numbers and email addresses to the angry mob, with instructions to pressure them.

Which they did.