December 2011
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A Tea Party senator from upstate wishes John...
Amplify’d from www.capitalnewyork.comState Senator Greg Ball believes his friends in the Tea Party would rather see the kind of bipartisan compromise forged by Andrew Cuomo in Albany than the firebrand opposition of the House Republicans in Washington.“From a leadership perspective, it’s apparent that President Obama lacks the leadership skills of Andrew Cuomo,” Ball told me in a...
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Tea Party ‘super PAC’ going after Sen. Orrin Hatch
Amplify’d from www.tucsonsentinel.comAn outside spending group affiliated with the conservative Tea Party movement is targeting long-time Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch in 2012 for not being conservative enough.FreedomWorks
for America is a so-called “super PAC,” meaning it can accept unlimited
donations from corporations, individuals and labor unions and spend the
funds on...
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Enter Tea Party Sarah, Ron Paul Spoiler
Amplify’d from www.infowars.comThe republican establishment is frightened to death of the prospect of a Ron Paul win in Iowa and New Hampshire. They will do just about anything to make him go away.“Conservatives and Republican elites in the state are divided over who to support for the GOP nomination, but they almost uniformly express concern over the prospect that Ron Paul and his army of...
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Why a Tea Party conservative now supports Ron...
Amplify’d from www.americanthinker.comAsk any conservative about Ron Paul and you will usually hear the following statement: “I love him on fiscal policy but his foreign policy is naive and dangerous.” You can also throw in the obligatory “He hates Israel.” If someone had asked me about Paul from 9/12/01 through October of 2011, I’d have said the exact same...
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WH Blames "Tea Party Revolt" For Likely Rejection...
Amplify’d from www.realclearpolitics.comWhite House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said it is a “Tea Party revolt” that would be responsible for the House rejecting a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut.
“Speaker Boehner’s position on Sunday was not the position that he had on Saturday when the 89 Senators came together to pass a two-month extension of the...
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Ron Paul Is Iowa's Sixth Poll Leader; Mitt Romney...
Amplify’d from www.sunshinestatenews.comMeanwhile, Ron Paul’s surge continues in Iowa, with a new Public Policy Polling survey showing the Texas congressman taking the lead there with 23 percent.Paul’s first-place showing makes him the sixth candidate to lead the field in Iowa. At various times, Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Gingrich and Romney have topped polls in the Hawkeye...
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Tea Party Patriots to host call, straw poll with...
Amplify’d from thehill.comThe Tea Party Patriots will host a phone conference with the Republican presidential candidates on Dec. 18, which will be followed by an online straw poll, they announced Tuesday.Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann have already confirmed they will attend, while Ron Paul has declined. The group, which claims 15 million members nationwide, touts itself as the largest...
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Congress Spares Incandescent Bulbs in Victory for...
Amplify’d from www.sfgate.comCongress spared the 100-watt incandescent light bulb from a government-enforced phaseout in a win for Tea Party activists over manufacturers who said they are already switching to more energy-efficient products.Lawmakers cleared legislation today to fund the government through Sept. 30, with a provision barring the Energy Department from carrying out the elimination of...
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Ron Paul’s ‘Tea Party’ money bomb aims for $4...
Amplify’d from www.thestatecolumn.comRon Paul (R-TX), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, kicked off his “Tea Party” money bomb Friday. Mr. Paul has set a fundraising goal of $4 million in one day. Mr. Paul’s “Tea Party” money bomb is the latest in a series of money bombs that have been conducted by the Paul campaign and the Texas congressman’s ardent supporters. The “Black...
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Tea Party Passions
Amplify’d from harvardmagazine.comThe Tea Party is a marvel of modern American politics. What began in February 2009 with a CNBC commentator’s tirade against federal support for borrowers with underwater home loans quickly built into a movement that altered the 2010 congressional elections and is now shaping the 2012 Republican presidential field.In a new book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of...
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One More Anti-Green Energy Win for the Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.thestreet.comNEW YORK (TheStreet) — Chalk up one more victory for the Tea Party muscle within the Republican Party in its battle against all things green energy. On Thursday night, omnibus spending legislation approved by the House and Senate to avert a government shutdown removed light bulb efficiency standards that would support the adoption of higher-efficiency...
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Tea Party group defends depicting Obama as skunk
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comA tea party group in Kansas says its depiction of President Barack Obama as a skunk is satire, not racism as the leader of a civil rights group alleges. Hutchinson-based Patriot Freedom Alliance says on its website that like the president, the skunk is “half black, half white, and almost everything it does stinks.” The Hutchinson News reports local NAACP...
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What Occupiers and Tea Partiers Should Fear Most
Amplify’d from www.theatlantic.comIt’s not taxes. It’s the passage of a new bill that would allow people on both sides of the political divide to be detained without trial. Sixty-four percent of Americans consider big government the biggest threat to the country, according to Gallup, but who knows what they mean by big government? Do 64 percent of Americans oppose the biggest big...
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Tea Party grassroots army readies for battle
Amplify’d from www.reuters.comTea Party grassroots army readies for battleInterviews with activists across 20 U.S. states indicate that Tea Party groups, far from fading, have evolved into an increasingly sophisticated and effective network of activists. They are working to unseat establishment Republicans who they believe have betrayed the principles of lower taxes, limited government, and free...
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Ron Paul: The Alternative Candidate is a force to...
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comHe’s also a force to be reckoned with in this presidential cycle. He has passionate followers from across the political spectrum, a good organization, a distinct libertarian message and plenty of money. He could be a game-changer if he decides to run as a third-party candidate.
No one has ever accused Ron Paul of being a flip-flopper. He has been saying the...
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Leadership Bid Reflects Growing Tea Party...
Amplify’d from michaeljohnsonfreedomandprosperity.blogspot.comThe tea party movement began in an unassuming way: A series of March 2009 conference calls of a couple dozen conservative and libertarian activists from across the nation. How far it has come. Yesterday, after taking back the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2010 and growing its rank and file members into the millions in...
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The Senate’s Mr. Tea
Amplify’d from www.theamericanconservative.comLee founded the Senate Constitutional Conservatives Fund, a leadership PAC modeled on the one DeMint used to raise money for conservative primary candidates in 2010. He would like to start an associated “super PAC,” which can essentially raise unlimited funds, pushing the envelope of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Whether federal...
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Establishment Tea Party Activist Supports Romney...
Amplify’d from www.prisonplanet.comA prominent activist for the hijacked Tea Party in New Hampshire has declared he will support Mitt Romney’s bid for president. Tom Thompson is the son of the late Meldrim Thomson, former governor of New Hampshire and an anti-tax activist. Tom Thompson is the chairman of New Hampshire’s Americans for Prosperity.“I was a Tea Party activist before it was cool,”...
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Tea Party Effort to Overturn Dream Act in Home...
Amplify’d from lomalinda.patch.comIt can be said that the Redlands Tea Party Patriots’ push to repeal the Dream Act is in the home stretch, said group member Lane Schneider.“We’ve already gotten some (pages) completed,” Schneider said a few hours into a signature drive Sunday. “We’re getting some good response.”Schneider sat with Suzanne Owens at a table in front of Stater Bros. near Alabama...
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Tea party, capitalism, not socialism, will revive...
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In response to all the Occupy and left-wing socialists, I’d like to point out a little about capitalism.Instead of spending all your time whining about the 1 percent, do something to become one of the 1 percent! If you spent as much time working on ways to make money as you do standing on street corners asking the “gummet” to help you, maybe you’d become...
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Tea Party Leaders: Why 'Occupy Wall Street'...
Amplify’d from www.usnews.comMark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin are the cofounders and national coordinators of Tea Party Patriots, America’s largest Tea Party group.Two groups, one “Day of Action,” vastly different results.According to the New York Times, more than 240 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested in New York City on November 17; some for felony assault. As New...
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Tea party turns up the heat on GOP
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Tea party groups around Georgia are mobilizing to challenge state elected
officials they’ve deemed RINOs — Republicans In Name Only.
They are emboldened by victories in 2010 and recent polling showing 2 in 3
Republican voters agree with the tea party’s anti-tax, limited-government
message.
Their ambition is to elect ideologically strict candidates. At stake is the...
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Mayor, media targeted by Tea Party in two protests...
Amplify’d from www.examiner.comThe first protest by member groups of the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation starts at 1pm on Bank Street and is directed against the Virginia Associated Press and Virginia Capitol Correspondents Association for sponsoring what they call an “elites only” U.S. Senate debate at the Capitol between former governors George Allen and Timothy M. Kaine.The Tea Party...
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Gingrich rise is a sign tea party is in decline
Amplify’d from www.chron.comIf history tells us anything, the rise of sometime-historian Newt Gingrich to Republican presidential frontrunner is a sign that the tea party movement is destroying itself.After all, the former House speaker has surged to the top of Republican presidential polls on the shoulders of tea party supporters, a movement that ironically came together to topple Washington...
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Why a Newt Gingrich Candidacy Would Doom the Tea...
Amplify’d from www.theatlantic.comGallup finds that 82 percent of Tea Party affiliated voters deem Newt Gingrich an acceptable Republican presidential nominee in 2012. They don’t seem to realize that if he wins the nod their movement is doomed, regardless of how the general election goes. The Tea Party cannot support Gingrich without betraying its core principles. But the movement also...
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Kirby Center hosts Tea Party budget commission
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Nearly 200 Tea Party activists overran the Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies on Nov. 17, after Capitol Hill police barred them from an informal debt commission meeting in a Senate office building in Washington, D.C.
An outside non-profit group advertised the meeting as a “hearing,” a gaffe that led Senate rules staffers to...
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Tea Party group’s co-founder calls Cuomo’s tax...
Amplify’d from empire.wnyc.orgOne of the co-founders of a major Tea Party group in New York isn’t buying into Governor Andrew Cuomo’s tax overhaul proposal. Thomas Basile of Tea Party 365, who formerly served as the executive director of the state’s Republican Party, said the Governor wasn’t focusing his attention in the right areas.“Whenever you hear the Governor use words like ‘fair’ and...
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A Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Alliance?
Amplify’d from www.counterpunch.orgMany are thinking about the Tea Party and its relationship (or lack thereof) with Occupy Wall Street. I’ve received numerous complaints from some liberals who seem set on fostering an alliance between both forces in terms of what they promise will be a mass campaign to reign in business and government corruption. The proposal is absurd in my estimation,...
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The V Party
Amplify’d from thehill.comMetaphorically, it is huge; from the Tea Party to the Vote Party
suggests a major political shift. The Occupy Wall Street Movement has
traveled across American cities, attracted national attention, and is
ready to move from gaining attention to influencing social action.If the movement — I’d call it the embryonic V Party — uses its social
media network to advance a...
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Rand Paul pushes his tea party style of change
Amplify’d from www.miamiherald.com The freshman Republican senator from Kentucky on Tuesday took on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. - a highly decorated veteran and former presidential candidate - over a provision in the defense authorization bill that would deny civilian trials to American terrorism suspects. Paul’s impassioned opposition to the provision put him on the same side as the...
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Is public support for the tea party movement...
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comRECOMMENDED: Five ways the tea party can ‘agree’ with Occupy movement’s demands“Throughout the 2010 election cycle, agreement with the Tea Party far outweighed disagreement,” Pew reports. “But as is the case nationwide, support has decreased significantly over the past year; now about as many people living in Tea Party districts disagree (23...
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Four groups launch a pre-emptive strike against...
Amplify’d from blogs.ajc.comThe first organization was the most important – the anti-tax Club for Growth, whose members are a deep source of Republican campaign contributions. Then came Concerned Women, a Beverly LaHaye group, followed by Eagle Forum led by Phyllis Schlafly.On Friday, the influential Family Research Council joined the pack.Each group – or, officially, their political action...
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Has the Tea Party really changed Washington?
Amplify’d from washingtonexaminer.comTea Party activists clamoring for federal spending restraint swarmed the polls in 2010 and sent dozens of fresh faces to Washington.A year after the new Congress was sworn in, the Tea Party has undeniably had a huge impact on the political and public policy debates in the nation’s capital. But what has actually happened to federal spending?As always,...
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Has Fox News Been Good for Conservatives?
Amplify’d from www.theatlantic.comPETER ROBINSON: What has been the effect of Fox News in American politics? ANDREW FERGUSON: Well I guess I should say that Fox does a lot of really terrible things. Some of it is simply unwatchable, particularly at night. But its effect on the body politic, to use a pretentious phrase, has been almost completely salutary and admirable, I believe. The tenor of the...
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Does the Tea Party still matter?
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comA year after the Tea Party movement was credited with fundamentally transforming American politics - and helping the Republicans take control the House - it faces a 2012 presidential cycle without a candidate to call its own.The two leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, have resumes that could make a Tea...
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Ron Paul And The Tea Party Can't Save You: 2012...
Amplify’d from www.businessinsider.comThere has been considerable confusion over the past few hours as to whether the Senate — which passed the National Defense Authorization Act (FY 2012) — included a last-minute “waiver” to protect American citizens from some of the bill’s more outrageous and fascist elements, including the right of the US government to detain...
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Ron Paul Hits Newt Gingrich Over “Serial...
Amplify’d from abcnews.go.comRon Paul has released a new web ad that portrays Newt Gingrich as a serial hypocrite.The 150-second ad showcases some questionable conservative stances made by the former speaker of the House, such as his agreement with Nancy Pelosi that “our country must take action to address climate change” and labeling Representative Paul Ryan’s proposed Medicare overhaul as...
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Is anti-tax movement coming to an end?
Amplify’d from blog.nj.comCalifornia, the land where the tax revolt was born in the 1970s, is facing several ballot initiativesthat would increase taxes, most heavily on the rich, to prevent more savage cuts in programs like education and health. Meanwhile, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is mulling a tax hike as well, and again placing a larger burden on the wealthy. Keep in mind, too, that national...
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Tea Party or Occupy: This Government is Failing
Amplify’d from southeast.patch.comWorking with Governor Cuomo, and across party lines, in NY, we have balanced the budget, made tough spending cuts and avoided any new tax increases. We need immediate and similar leadership in Washington, D.C. to right the tax code and make the tough decisions necessary to right size this budget.The most recent failure of the Super Committee to reach any agreement...
November 2011
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Redistricting could end careers of tea party...
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comAfter declaring his intentions to run against Rep. Randy Hultgren in the Republican primary for Illinois’ 14th district, Rep. Joe Walsh is reportedly considering running in the redrawn 8th. He’s not the only tea party firebrand who came to prominence (and Congress) in 2010 but could be gone by this time next year thanks — or no thanks — to the decennial...
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New York Times financial writer Joe Nocera...
Amplify’d from www.gazettenet.comThe tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements sit about as far apart on the political spectrum as they can get. Certainly, their members and the American public would be surprised, if not shocked, to consider that the two grassroots movements might derive from the same source.Yet, that is the conclusion reached by one of the country’s foremost financial...
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NY Times Book Review Likens Tea Party to the Klan
Amplify’d from www.whitehousedossier.comA piece in Sunday’s New York Times book review section compared the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan.The review, written for the Times by historian Kevin Boyle, evaluates two new books on the Klan. It opens with an indirect but unmistakable suggestion that the Tea Party is a modern version of the racist white supremacist organization.Imagine a political...
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Richmond Tea Party says city audit is harassment
Amplify’d from www.boston.comThe Richmond Tea Party said an audit by the city is retaliation for the conservative group seeking refunds for rally permits and fees, arguing that Occupy Richmond activists have not been charged anything for the same activities.
The audit is outlined in a Nov. 14 letter by the city’s...
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Tea Party Alleges Double Standard by...
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comA Tea Party chapter in Virginia is alleging that it was audited by the City of Richmond after it complained that the local Occupy movement was receiving special treatment by the mayor.The Richmond Tea Party said the city charged it $10,000 to hold three rallies in Kanawha Plaza — where Occupiers have been allowed to reside at no charge.Now the Tea Partiers are...
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Colin Powell Blames Media and Tea Party for...
Amplify’d from newsbusters.orgColin Powell on Sunday blamed the media as well as the Tea Party for the divisive political tone in Washington.Not surprisingly, neither the class warfare stoked by President Obama and his Party nor the resulting Occupy Wall Street movement was mentioned during this seven minute interview with Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s This Week (video follows with transcript...
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Year later, tea party’s profile low but focused
Amplify’d from www.washingtontimes.comA year ago, the tea party was the focus of Washington, praised by Republicans for the punching power it displayed in the 2010 election fight and derided by Democrats as an unhealthy influence on the ascendant GOP.Now, less than a year before the next elections, the tea party is striving to carve out a role going forward, even as its public support falls, its...
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Is the tea party’s enthusiasm waning? Tea Party...
Amplify’d from dailycaller.comIt’s been over two years since the 9/12 march on Washington, D.C., and a year since the tea party movement helped change the balance of power in the nation’s capital. But has the enthusiasm of the movement since waned?Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin sat down with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas to share her perspective. Look for the full interview...
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More Blacks Supported Tea Party Movement Than...
Amplify’d from www.humanevents.comToday the Washington Post reported that African Americans, who are 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.It’s too bad the Occupy Movement couldn’t be like the tea party.An April 2010 Gallup poll found that 6% of tea party support came from non-hispanic blacks.See more at www.humanevents.com See this Amp at...
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Two-Party System Begs for a Third
Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.comThe nation’s dismay with Washington turns up in an array of polling results. To understand why the moment may be ripe for a real surprise next November, consider just these numbers: Ross Perot, who won nearly one in five votes in 1992 to become the most successful independent candidate in modern presidential politics, ran at a moment when 39% of...
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Tea party, 'Occupy' don't stack up with '60s...
Amplify’d from www.baltimoresun.comOnce again, rage in the streets has captured the nation’s attention, as it did during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s. Now it is the turn of the tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements. But the latter two have not achieved the numbers, the intensity or the success of first two.In both cases, protesters in the streets...
