Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.