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Here's the deal:

The tax protest is still a big deal.

Don't believe me, a guy who was there.

Believe Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a woman who was not.

Because, methinks she doth protest too much.

Insisting today those who ranted yesterday were just a bunch of rich people pushing for tax cuts.

And not one to come up with her own attack line, she parroted someone else's.

Stealing from the left-leaning economist Paul Krugman that this wasn't a grass-roots movement, but more like an Astroturf one.

Word to protesters: Now you matter.

Like I said, don't believe me.

Believe those critics who can't seem to stop talking about you.

And I’m a little shocked good old American populism is getting a good old kick in the pants.

From the very folks who seem to like public rage, but only when it suits their own.

Rage over the Iraq war? Legitimate.

Rage over Washington spending too much? Not legitimate.

You get the picture, and increasingly so do a lot of these tax protesters and now an increasing number of folks who wonder whether these folks gathering all over the country are all that crazy, after all.

Or all that rich, at all.

Because the protesters I saw didn't come from money, or seem to have much money now.

Those I met in Sacramento yesterday told me they could only dream of being in the upper rung.

They're more concerned about a government getting the upper hand.

As I said then, this wasn't the Grey Poupon crowd.

This was the Jiffy peanut butter crowd.

Holding no illusions of wealth.

Yet holding very palpable fears they'll never see wealth....

Not when government's getting bigger and the tax bill to support it will likely get bigger too.

I just find it rich for Nancy Pelosi to dismiss fellow Californians who don't share her love of government.

But in marginalizing them, is she not marginalizing herself?

Clueless to a rage that is real, is she not cocooning herself in a world of special interests that is not?

Now, exactly who's zooming whom here?

Forget about bureaucrats who tax our money.

Are the protesters right when they attack bureaucrats who tax something else?

Our patience.