November 2010
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Tequila Party Politics? Independent Latinos 'Tea...
Amplify’d from www.postchronicle.comIn Nevada and around the country the Tea party has had a startling effect. Today Latino leaders have decided to float their own Tea party style movement. We think it might just have a better name - The Tequila Party.
The two groups cannot be compared. The reason these Latinos have not joined the grass roots party of the Tea Party is because they are an...
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Tea Timing Republicans
Amplify’d from spectator.orgThe Tea Party movement is the fifth major wave of immigration
into the modern Republican Party since World War II. It has brought
Americans who had never been politically active to the forefront of
the political fight against the Obama administration’s agenda and
into Republican primaries as voters, and in some cases, as
candidates. The Tea Party movement became...
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Tea party speaker, banned by Archdiocese of...
Amplify’d from news.cincinnati.comA new venue has been secured for a two-hour lecture by a tea party activist after his invitation to speak at a local Catholic school was rescinded for fear the topic would violate a Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati policy forbidding partisan and political speech.Frantz Kebreau, a 43-year-old airline pilot and national director of an organization called the...
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Tea Party complications
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In American revolutions, power generally flows to moderate revolutionaries. Sam Adams may get things started, but it is John who gets things done.
With more than 80 freshmen House Republicans ready to demolish the Capitol but unable to find its washrooms, influence will shift to leaders (think Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Tom Price) who possess both Tea Party...
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Senate Votes Food Socialism Closer; Opposition to...
Amplify’d from www.teapartynation.comThis sets stage for final vote Tuesday. Prior cloture vote was 74 in favor, so we are making headway. PUSH BACK CONTINUES! The other side lost 6 votes because of our continual electronic hammering. Let’s Push Back a whole bunch more before the voting resumes!Sen Coburn says: bill will raise food prices; add 1.5 billion to
deficit; add unfunded state...
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John Birch Society reborn in Tea Party movement?
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Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo, a John Birch Society supporter who has written about the John Birch Society in depth, told The Daily Caller that he believes Buckley’s most decisive split with Welch was over Vietnam. Welch advocated against entering an “unwinnable war,” as Raimondo puts it, something that infuriated Buckley and what Raimondo terms as...
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Tea partiers take sides in chairmen races
Amplify’d from www.politico.comThe influential Tea Party Patriots group is starting to take sides in key House chairmen races, pushing for Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) over Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) for the Appropriations panel. The group has also criticized Rep. Fred Upton’s (R-Mich) as not quite conservative enough to chair the Energy and Commerce committee. The organization is also sending...
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Next Tea Party Target: Corporate America
Amplify’d from politics.usnews.comJesse Jackson isn’t the only activist that can use corporate boycotts for political purposes. Starting next year, the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson for backing President Obama’s progressive agenda.In an exclusive review for Whispers of their...
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Tea Party pushing to give more power to Obama?...
Amplify’d from www.times-standard.comThe same anti-Obama tide that led to what the president deemed a midterm “shellacking” at the November polls could actually leave the president’s administration with more power over government spending. Debate raged in the nation’s capital over earmark spending, culminating with Republican lawmakers in the House promising to ban the practice and...
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Ron in Reserve
Amplify’d from www.prospect.orgFor decades, libertarian Rep. Ron Paul has criticized the Federal Reserve Bank, putting him outside both parties: Democrats who hoped the central bank could manage sustainable growth and Republicans whose policy idol was conservative monetary economist Milton Friedman. Now, when Congress reorganizes in January, Paul is likely to be placed in charge of the House panel...
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Tea Party May Target Major Companies That Back...
Amplify’d from www.cnsnews.comAccording to a new poll, Tea Party activists and conservatives are willing to put their money where their mouths are and stop purchasing products from companies that promote President Barack Obama’s agenda.The results of the survey led the pollster to conclude that Tea Partiers could “realistically” lead a boycott of such companies.The poll was commissioned by the...
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Tea Party's Balanced-Budget Dream Will Take...
Amplify’d from www.bloomberg.comSenate Republicans have endorsed a
call for a constitutional amendment requiring the government to
balance its budget after Tea Party candidates made erasing the
deficit a rallying cry throughout the U.S. election campaign. While the calls may be urgent, even Washington’s leading
deficit foes say it will take decades to balance the books. A proposal by the heads of...
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Tea Party Legislators Rival Obama as Preferred...
Amplify’d from www.gallup.comPRINCETON, NJ — Americans are as likely to want Tea Party-backed Republican members of Congress to have the most influence over federal policies in the coming year as they are to prefer President Barack Obama. The Democratic leaders in Congress rank last in this regard, behind the Republican leaders.The 27% of Americans preferring Tea Party Republicans on this...
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Nationwide Poll of Conservative Voters Finds Big...
Amplify’d from www.prnewswire.comWASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Companies supporting President Obama’s big-government policies risk suffering a dramatic drop in customer favorability, a newly-released nationwide survey of conservative voters conducted by the National Center for Public Policy Research and FreedomWorks reveals.In one example of the research findings,...
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Poll: Tea Party Support Grows
Amplify’d from therightwing.rsscrawler.comIn a survey taken Friday through Sunday, 28% say Obama should have the most influence on government policy next year while 27% say the Tea Party standard-bearers should. GOP congressional leaders are chosen by 23%, Democratic congressional leaders by 16%. The results reflect the strength of the Tea Party movement as the GOP prepares to take control of the...
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The tea party's fundamentalist streak
Amplify’d from www.kansascity.com This is not to say that the impulses motivating tea partyers are not genuine. Lots of tea party folks are angry: about taxes and welfare and federal power and many other things. But what has given the tea party visibility, put a public face on it, wrapped it in that “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and put it on bus tours, has been conservative...
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Rand Paul to write a tea party book
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FRANKFORT — U.S. Sen.-elect Rand Paul of Bowling Green is writing a book titled The Tea Party Goes to Washington.
The book will be about Paul’s plan and the tea party’s platform “to bring the U.S. government more in line with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, to stop spending money...
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Tea Party pushing hard for black candidates
Amplify’d from www.mpnnow.comIt was called Operation Black Storm and it promoted a long list of black candidates for the 2010 midterms who were intended to undercut “progressive” claims that tea party activists are racist.Two of the candidates were elected to Congress: Former Army Lt. Col. Allen West in Florida’s 22nd District and Tim Scott in South Carolina’s 1st District.Now the campaign is...
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Letter to the GOP leadership
Amplify’d from www.teapartynation.comDear Senator McConnell and Congressman Boehner,Last Monday, a small group of non-Tea Party, non-conservatives, released a letter, trying to claim leadership of the Tea Party movement and purporting to tell you what the Tea Party movement wants.We, the undersigned, are leaders of mainstream Tea Party groups. We are the people that helped get conservatives...
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Debt limit will be test of resolve for GOP...
Amplify’d from www.dallasnews.comThe federal government will run out of money next spring. Tapped out. Credit line depleted. Nothing to do but borrow more – or let the government screech to a halt, with all the damage that would inflict on the economy.Only the U.S. government can raise its own credit limit. States can’t do it, or homeowners, or businesses. But...
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Tea party group pressures Congress
Amplify’d from www.politico.comA group of tea party activists are firing back at a gay conservative group, claiming that they don’t speak for the movement.Last week, POLITICO reported on a letter that GOProud and several tea party activists sent to GOP congressional leaders urging them to pursue fiscal issues over social ones. Now, another group of tea party activists released their own...
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Congratulations & Happy Holidays Tea Party...
Amplify’d from capitolhillcoffeehouse.comBrother and sister tea party patriots, pat yourselves on the back. Congratulations, we did it! November 2nd, 2010 marked a huge step forward in our efforts to take back America. Numerous tea party candidates beat democrats and RINO republicans causing the republicans to win leadership of the House and gain ground in the Senate.
Now, we must hold their feet...
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Why New York shouldn't mourn earmarks
Amplify’d from www.nypost.comThe ban on spending earmarks adopted this past week by Republicans in the House and Senate represents a Round One victory for the Tea Party over a GOP establishment that took pork-barrel spending to a new high (or perhaps low) during the Bush years. Congressional Democrats — still reeling from their electoral pummeling — are about to find themselves largely alone in...
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'The Whites of Their Eyes': Tea party's...
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“People who ask what the founders would do quite commonly declare that they know, they know, they just know what the founders would do and, mostly, it comes to this: if only they could see us now, they would be rolling over in their graves. We have failed to obey their sacred texts, holy writ. They suffered for us, and we have forsaken them. Come the day of...
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Tea Party President in 2012
Amplify’d from biggovernment.comGovernor Mit Romney stands eager to win the office his father never did. As a prolific candidate in leftist Massachusetts, he is on record vacillating on issues such as abortion and even the stature of Ted Kennedy. He is popular with the kingmakers. When the number 1 or 2 issue on voters’ minds is the repeal of Obama along with his Obamacare, conservatives are...
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How the Tea Party Thinks Sustainable Development...
Amplify’d from www.alternet.orgFirst, they took on the political establishment in Congress. Now, tea partiers have trained their sights on a new and insidious target: local planning and zoning commissions, which activists believe are carrying out a global conspiracy to trample American liberties and force citizens into Orwellian “human habitation zones.”At the root of this plot is...
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Will War Between the Religious Right and...
Amplify’d from www.alternet.orgIn the months leading up to the midterm congressional elections, the tea party movement managed to tamp down on its internal divisions in pursuit of a shared goal of defeating Democrats. But with the elections over, the movement’s fault lines are starting to show, and tensions between the tea party’s social conservative and libertarian wings are ...
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Poison vote looms for tea party freshmen: Raise...
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comEven though a vote to raise the national debt limit – now just under $14.3 trillion – is months away, House Republican leaders are already preparing their caucus for what could be the toughest vote for a bumper freshman class.About half of the 85-member Republican House freshman class ran with backing from tea party groups – all of them on a platform to curb or cap...
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Will Tea Party settle for anything less than full...
Amplify’d from voices.washingtonpost.comSo it appears that Mitch McConnell compared Obamacare to “tyranny” in a speech this morning to a conservative law group, and promised that the GOP would hold hearings designed to spotlight the evils of health care reform:“By preventing the accumulation of excessive power, the Constitution is designed to reduce the risk of tyranny or abuse...
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A Canadian Tea Party?
Amplify’d from www.nationalpost.comGood, lord, you couldn’t script a dumber political game plan than the one currently embarked upon by British Columbia’s Liberal government. Seriously, if you ever want a map for the Road to Ruin, give the B.C. Libs a call. They’re in the Yellow Pages under Political Instincts —None. First the Liberals decide to impose the Harmonized...
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Lame Duck Washout Demonstrates Tea Party...
Amplify’d from www.chronwatch-america.comThe 2010 post-election ”Lame Duck” session of Congress is officially underway, and represents a brief period of time in which America could conceivably be in the greatest peril of its existence. With nothing else to lose in the immediate aftermath of this year’s mid-term elections, Democrats had once been expected to utilize the time between...
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NY-Sen: Dan Senor, again?
Amplify’d from www.thealbanyproject.com It’s early yet, but the search for a credible Republican challenger to the excellent Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who will be running for a full six-year term in 2012, has again turned up Dan Senor, the neocon flack who worked for the Bush/Cheney campaign at the Coalition Provisional Authority in the Iraq War’s first year.
The story in the...
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Lap Two for the Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.americanthinker.comPolitics is a relay race, not a sprint, which means that those of us who belong to the Tea Party or support its goals must start thinking about the kind of candidates we’ll run in 2012.In this year’s elections — Lap One, so to speak — the Tea Party demonstrated what so many of us have always known but couldn’t prove: namely, that...
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Tea Partier Joe Walsh Wins in Illinois
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Republicans’ historic House win just got bigger. Democrat Melissa Bean has conceded Illinois’ 8th district to Tea...
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Ron Paul will not join the Tea Party Caucus
Amplify’d from dailyteaparty.comThe Daily Caller By Steven Nelson- Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, an icon to many members of the Tea Party movement, has decided not to join the House Tea Party Caucus.Jeff Deist, chief of staff for Paul, confirmed the congressman’s decision in a statement to The Daily Caller.“Congressman Paul decided not to join the Tea Party Caucus,” Deist wrote in an e-mail. “He...
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The Freshman Class: Newly Elected Republicans...
Amplify’d from abcnews.go.comThe Freshman Class: Newly Elected Republicans Pledge ‘No Compromise’ as They Descend on Washington
A pizza man, a lumberjack, a dentist and more — a new generation of freshmen Tea Party Republican congressmen descended on Washington over the weekend. They won’t be sworn in until January, but these new politicians scored a big victory in trying...
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Antonin Scalia -- The Tea Party's Court Justice
Amplify’d from www.huffingtonpost.comIt’s rare to see a sitting Supreme Court Justice call for repeal of parts of our Constitution, but that’s what in fact happened last week when Justice Antonin Scalia took a page from the Tea Party playbook and urged a return to the document as it was first written. Calling the framing of the Constitution by the Founders of America...
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Tea party kept out by GOP, activist alleges
Amplify’d from chronicle.northcoastnow.comELYRIA — The leader of a local tea party organization is upset with what he sees as an attempt by top Lorain County Republicans to derail his efforts to install members of his organization as Republican precinct committee members.Randy Newman, founder and president of the Lorain County 47th Tea Party, said the Lorain County Republican Party’s Executive...
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Rand Paul: I'm a "Fan" of Divided Government
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comWith 37 incoming members who also identify themselves as Tea Party politicians, it won’t be his affiliation that makes Sen.-Elect Rand Paul (R-Ky.) unique on Capitol Hill in January.But it may be his excitement about working with a divided House and Senate that sets him apart.In an interview with “Washington Unplugged,” this Republican from Kentucky...
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How tea party senators stared down Mitch McConnell...
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comIn a surprise reversal, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky announced today that he will join House GOP leaders in voting to ban “earmarks” – member projects often criticized as pork barrel spending – thus avoiding an early clash with tea party freshmen committed to ending the practice.The issue was seen as a litmus test of how far the...
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Tea Party's Winning Hand
Amplify’d from www.humanevents.comOther than being the highest-profile Republican victims of Tea Party candidates, what do Lisa Murkowski, Mike Castle, Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter have in common? Other than being tea party insurgents who routed establishment Republicans in high-profile primaries, what do Joe Miller, Marco Rubio, Christine O’Donnell, Pat Toomey, Sharron Angle in...
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Taibbi: the Tea Party Moron Complex
Amplify’d from www.alternet.orgIf American politics made any sense at all, we wouldn’t have two giant political parties of roughly equal size perpetually fighting over the same 5–10 percent swatch of undecided voters, blues versus reds. Instead, the parties should be broken down into haves and have-nots — a couple of obnoxious bankers on the Upper East Side running for office against...
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Poll: Neither Party Should Lead NYS Senate; Cuomo...
Amplify’d from www.wben.comA new Siena College Research Poll says that niether party — Republican or Democrat— should have sole majority party control of the New York State Senate, but rather needs to engage in power sharing with no clear majority.The poll, conducted November 8th-10th, also says that more than eight in ten voters do not like speculation of a Cuomo presidential...
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The Establishment Media Is Already Trying To Blame...
Amplify’d from endoftheamericandream.comWhy does it seem like major establishment news outlets come out with the exact same talking points so often? This time, the mainstream media in both the United States and in the UK are placing blame for an economic collapse that hasn’t even happened yet on the Tea Party movement and on opponents of the Federal Reserve. Of course it is completely and...
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Tea Party’s diverse agenda could be a problem
Amplify’d from www.capitolhillblue.comSouth Carolina tea party activist Sunny O’Donovan plans to travel to Washington in January to personally witness the swearing-in of her new congressman, Jeff Duncan, who was elected with the backing of several tea party groups. On that day, O’Donovan will shift from being an enthusiastic supporter to an eager constituent with a long wish list.“What I’d really...
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Who had the worst week in Washington? Michele...
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Republican establishment 1, tea party 0.
That’s the post-midterm score after tea party darling Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) dropped her candidacy for a spot in the House Republican leadership roughly one week after announcing it.
Earlier in the week, Bachmann, who founded the tea party caucus in the House, was making bold proclamations about the power...
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Tea Partiers to GOP: Fall in line or face...
Amplify’d from dailycaller.comProminent leaders within the Tea Party movement have a warning for presumptive House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. – keep their campaign promises to cut spending and repeal the health care law or face defeat in their next primaries.Tea Partiers plan to remain a political force to be reckoned with going into the 2012...
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Tea Party, Don’t Let Your Opposition Define You
Amplify’d from americandaily.comWith the mid-term elections now literally in the history books, the powers that be on both the Left side of the aisle and the Right, inside the beltway and out, have finally come to understand the power and appeal of the citizen movement commonly referred to as the Tea Party Movement. But, along with this recognition of power and appeal comes the wont of these...
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Where Does the Tea Party Stand on Declaring War?
Amplify’d from www.fff.orgGiven their commitment to the Constitution, members of the Tea Party must confront the legality of the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The point the Tea Party must confront is very simple: The Constitution requires a congressional declaration of war as a prerequisite for the president’s waging of war. The Congress never issued a declaration of war...
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What Can We Learn from the Tea Party Victory?
Amplify’d from mensnewsdaily.comSome bewilderment remains in the wake of Alabama representative Spencer Bachus’ claim that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party cost Republicans control of the Senate. Sarah Palin was the only thing that gave John McCain’s presidential candidacy any life at all, and if Tea Party leaders hadn’t chosen to use the Republican Party as a vehicle, there is no reason to suspect...
