From today's Buffalo News:

The base of One HSBC Center played a makeshift Valley Forge late Thursday afternoon for a dozen and a half local tea party activists who descended on downtown Buffalo to continue efforts they are billing as the “Second American Revolution.”

The target: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Silver, D-Manhattan, was in Buffalo as the headliner for a $2,000-per-head fundraiser on the 31st floor of the city’s tallest building to benefit the Erie County Democratic Party.

That alone was enough to keep tea party advocates hot despite the frigid environs. The 13-degree temperature with 30-mph wind gusts whipped snow into their eyes as they scanned the wintry terrain for any sight of Silver.

Hmm.  That puts the wind chill at about 10 below.  I've been kind of hesitant to speculate on collective Tea Party human intelligence, but standing in -10 degree temperature without any sight of anything--so much as your bete noire--just to come out with counter-counter-revolutionary babble like:

“He’s on top of a totally corrupt system that drags this state down,” said James Ostrowski, a Buffalo lawyer active in the anti-tax tea party movement. “So he’s a perfect target.”

Outstanding. Frosty the Neo-Maoist lawyer has spoken.

I guess these Tea Party people really are a solution in search of a problem.

Note to James the lawyer: If you're reading this--which I'm going to try to make happen--feel free to drop us a line here at NGD and elaborate a bit more on your "corrupt system" and "perfect target" memes.  We'd love to hear from you.

And as always, you send it--it gets printed.