E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post columnist, penned a piece this week declaring the Tea Party movement is all but a media creation. In a column Monday, which is being reprinted across the nation this week, Dionne states: “The Tea Party is nothing new. It represents a relatively small minority of Americans on the right end of politics, and it will not determine the outcome of the 2010 elections.”

He later adds: “In fact, both major parties stand to lose if they accept the laughable notion that this media-created protest movement is the voice of true populism. Democrats will spend their time chasing votes they will never win. Republicans will turn their party into an angry and narrow redoubt with no hope of building a durable majority.”

Let's wait and see.