January 2011
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The Tea Party, The Left and 'Ammo' for Senator...
Amplify’d from salem-news.com(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Republican and Tea Party Representative Senator Rand Paul has called for an end of aid to Israel and has been getting slammed ever since by U.S. Democrats and pro-Israel lobbies.In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on 26 January 2011, Paul said that “Reuters did a poll, and 71 percent of American people agree with me that when we’re...
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Tea Party seeks united front in 2012 primaries
Amplify’d from www.sfgate.comLeaders of more than 70 Tea Party groups in Indiana gathered last weekend to sign a proclamation saying they would all support one candidate - as yet undetermined - in a primary challenge to Sen. Richard Lugar, the Republican who has represented the state since 1977.They are organizing early, they say, to prevent what happened last year, when several Tea Party...
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Poll: GOP should listen to tea party
Amplify’d from www.politico.comSeven in 10 Americans would like to see Republican leaders in Congress consider the tea party movement’s ideas as they confront the country’s challenges, a new poll has found.In a Gallup/USA Today polling released Monday, 71 percent of those surveyed said they want to see GOP leaders look to tea party positions when developing policy. Forty-two percent said that...
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Tea Party Caucus - CBS News Video →
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A Two Faced Tea Party: Can Social Conservatives... →
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Senate Tea Party Caucus Meets - Washington Post...
Amplify’d from www.redstate.comThe first ever meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus was convened yesterday on Capitol Hill and it was a great success. The left wing media is doing everything they can to demonize the Tea Party movement. It is not going to work. The Heritage Foundation sent a camera and here is a video of the proceedings for those who could not make the first meeting which was...
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Tea Party, key GOP group not sold on Orrin Hatch
Amplify’d from content.usatoday.comSen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, could face an election challenge next year from a Tea Party candidate and others on his right. CAPTIONBy Win McNamee, Getty ImagesIs Sen. Orrin Hatch as “good as it gets” when it comes to Republicans?The Club for Growth, a group of fiscal conservatives, doesn’t think so and is taking exception to a Tea Party leader who...
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Rand Paul: "The president has been co-opted by the...
Amplify’d from sisu.typepad.com”The president has been co-opted by the Tea Party,” exulted Rand Paul as he and fellow Republican Senators Jim DeMint and Mike Lee launched their Senate Tea Party Caucus Wednesday. With hats — crowns of laurel? — off to Ovid, “Those three form a multitude”:Yes, you, Mr. President. Some of our fellow conservatives flew into a tizzy when Tea...
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A Left / Tea Party Alliance?
Amplify’d from counterpunch.comThat’s right, stalwart progressive groups like the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and the Ralph Nader-founded Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) are now working in a de facto coalition with some 23 conservative groups, including Grover Norquist’s the Americans for Tax Reform, and the national Tea Party group FreedomWorks, to push for deep cuts in US defense...
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Freshman GOP senator pledges to filibuster...
Amplify’d from thehill.comSen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a founding member of the Senate’s Tea Party Caucus, has pledged to filibuster legislation to increase the debt ceiling.Lee said a filibuster could be averted only if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) reach an agreement to pass a balanced-budget amendment through the Senate.“I’m against...
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“What’s Your General Opinion On The Tea Party...
Amplify’d from rightwingnews.comFirst off, the Tea Party movement deserves a lot of credit for putting some steel back in the spine of the Republican Party. Sadly, during the Bush years, the GOP became a political party that was trying to be too many things to too many people. They wanted to be the party for small government people while they were touting “compassionate conservatism”...
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Tea Party leader: Tea Party ‘is not a wing of the...
Amplify’d from blog.sabdesi.netEchoing comments from Rep. Michele Bachmann, the head of the Tea Party Express insists that the Minnesota Republican’s response to the State of the Union is not meant to compete with the official Republican response from Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.But Express Chairman Amy Kremer also emphatically told CNN on Tuesday that “the peoples’ voices” need to be heard – and...
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What a Tea Party budget looks like
Amplify’d from money.cnn.comWith Washington buzzing with proposals to cut the budget, Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Michele Bachmann — two high-profile Tea Party members — have each released laundry lists of spending cuts.The numbers in their proposals are staggering. Paul wants to slash $500 billion in fiscal year 2011, which only has eight remaining months. Bachmann lists more than $400...
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Tea party to GOP: Don't spare Pentagon from budget...
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comFor tea party-backed House freshmen, riding into office on vows to slash government spending, the Pentagon’s $700 billion dollar budget looks like a ripe target.
But how much influence will they have on 2011 defense spending? Some argue that tea partyers have already had substantive impacts, possibly influencing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s decision to...
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Menendez Fights Recall Effort
Amplify’d from www.nbcnewyork.comBut the tea party activists targeting Menendez have been unsuccessful in the courts so far, and now want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case.Afshin Mohamadi, a spokesman for Menendez, would not quantify the senator’s legal expenses.“This tea party organization’s effort is part of a larger national campaign to target those who are leading the fight against...
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Bachmann's big night: reaction to her SOTU...
Amplify’d from www.minnpost.comNot the president and not even her own party was going to keep Congresswoman Michele Bachmann out of the spotlight for a day. Despite mutterings that the GOP leadership wasn’t too thrilled with her “Tea Party response” to the State of the Union, Bachmann plunged on ahead. Here’s a link to the transcript. There are many delicious moments. For example: • “Instead ...
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Former Tea Party activist leads GOP
Amplify’d from thedartmouth.comJack Kimball, a former Tea Party activist, will take over as New Hampshire’s Republican Party Chairman on Saturday following his victory over Juliana Bergeron on Jan. 22, The New York Times reported. Kimball, described by his peers as a staunch fiscal and social conservative, will lead the state’s Republican Party during New Hampshire’s presidential primary, which...
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Tea Party Plans Response to State of the Union →
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Analysis: Straw Poll And The Tea Party →
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Matthews Ties Tea Partiers to 'Nazi Stuff' Moments... →
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Tea Party Activist Wins NH GOP Chair
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comA New Hampshire Tea Party activist was chosen chairman of the Republican State Committee Saturday in a state party election that drew the attention of major news media from around the country looking for clues to what impact the choice might have on the first-in-the-nation presidential primary there next year. “The race was watched as a sign of how much...
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There's More To N.H. GOP Chairman Story Than In NY...
Amplify’d from www.humanevents.comBecause of Kimball’s ties to tea party groups and his status as a political newcomer (he apparently never contributed to GOP candidates or attended any party meetings until running unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for governor last year), there is the underlying suggestion in the national news reports that the tea party movement had taken over...
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Kay Bailey Hutchison praises the Tea Party
Amplify’d from blog.mysanantonio.comSome Texas Tea Party chapters were very critical of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison during her unsuccessful 2010 campaign for governor against Republican incumbent Rick Perry, but the GOP lawmaker is turning the other cheek. On a national TV appearance, she praised the Tea Party. “The Tea Party all in all has done a good thing for America,” she said on ABC’s “This...
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GOP chooses a tea partier as chair
Amplify’d from www.nashuatelegraph.comDERRY – NH Tea Party Coalition co-founder Jack Kimball was the surprising winner in the race to be chairman of the Republican State Committee. Kimball, a self-made, successful businessman and former Nashua resident, edged favorite Juliana Bergeron of Keene, who was the handpicked choice of the outgoing chairman and former Gov. John H. Sununu. “You all know...
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Tea Party Caucus for Senate
Amplify’d from www.onenewsnow.comThe newly formed Senate Tea Party Caucus is set to meet for the first time January 27. Members of various tea party groups and a few Republicans are set to attend the meeting.While Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) spearheaded such a group for the House, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is leading the charge to create a Senate Tea Party caucus. The caucus...
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Kay Bailey Hutchison praises the Tea Party
Amplify’d from blog.mysanantonio.comSome Texas Tea Party chapters were very critical of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison during her unsuccessful 2010 campaign for governor against Republican incumbent Rick Perry, but the GOP lawmaker is turning the other cheek. On a national TV appearance, she praised the Tea Party. “The Tea Party all in all has done a good thing for America,” she said on ABC’s “This...
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Tea Party Caucus for Senate
Amplify’d from www.onenewsnow.comThe newly formed Senate Tea Party Caucus is set to meet for the first time January 27. Members of various tea party groups and a few Republicans are set to attend the meeting.While Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) spearheaded such a group for the House, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is leading the charge to create a Senate Tea Party caucus. The caucus...
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GOP chooses a tea partier as chair
Amplify’d from www.nashuatelegraph.comDERRY – NH Tea Party Coalition co-founder Jack Kimball was the surprising winner in the race to be chairman of the Republican State Committee. Kimball, a self-made, successful businessman and former Nashua resident, edged favorite Juliana Bergeron of Keene, who was the handpicked choice of the outgoing chairman and former Gov. John H. Sununu. “You all know...
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Abortion as a Tea Party Issue
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Has our financial mess brought us to the brink of getting beyond the culture wars?
It’s a question that we might see play out on Capitol Hill in the coming months as the new majority seeks to make the late pro-life congressman Henry Hyde proud, by defunding Planned Parenthood and prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion.“Hell no,” Speaker John Boehner said...
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Lugar's office reacts to Tea Party rally →
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Tea party letter urges Lugar to retire
Amplify’d from www.jconline.comThe 180 or so tea party leaders who gathered Saturday at Heartland Church in this Tipton County community said they are grateful for Richard G. Lugar’s 35 years of service in the Senate.“We cannot and will not support you in the May 2012 primary election and ask you to gracefully consider retirement,” the letter states.Evoking everything from the...
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Tea Party Activist Takes Over New Hampshire G.O.P.
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DERRY, N.H. — A fight to lead the New Hampshire Republican Party through next year’s presidential race ended Saturday with an upset victory by a conservative candidate backed by members of the Tea Party and other grass-roots groups.
The candidate, Jack Kimball, a relative newcomer to party politics who ran for governor last year as a fiscal and social...
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The tea party will fail -- unless it fully...
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comThey’re calling it the tea party Congress, and the new leadership is busy snipping earmarks, targeting Obamacare, and quoting the Constitution. But can they succeed where similar conservative backlashes have failed? Whatever your opinion of the whole tea party movement – and mine stops far short of blanket approval – you have to admit it has some interesting...
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Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit →
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Tea party favorites skip Senate caucus
Amplify’d from www.politico.comWith less than a week to go before its first meeting, the new Senate Tea Party Caucus has just three members: GOP Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah.
Left out of the club are several newly elected Repubican senators who rode the tea party wave of momentum this fall, including Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Ron Johnson of...
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Justice Scalia set to address Tea Party Caucus on...
Amplify’d from www.cnn.comWashington (CNN) — Justice Antonin Scalia, a popular and entertaining speaker at various forums around the world, has one of the busiest schedules off the bench. But a closed-door address the conservative justice is scheduled to give Monday afternoon has attracted controversy, partly because of who is sponsoring the event.The Tea Party Caucus, an informal...
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Beware Of The Patriot Pied Pipers
Amplify’d from deadlinelive.infoThe National Tea Party will fail because they have NO idea what they are up against. We have seen this movement mobilize, march and protest the political status quo. Their impact has been felt far and wide. Unfortunately, all of this will fail in the end because the same Elite that control both of the Republicans and Democrats have already begun to infiltrate,...
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Ron Paul is "principled," & "authentic Tea... →
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Black Tea in Houston
Amplify’d from www.amren.comIt’s a tea party unlike any Houston, and perhaps the entire country, has ever seen. The first Black Tea Party held its inaugural meeting Tuesday night in the Third Ward. Organizers of the Crispus Attucks Tea Party are quick to point out that anyone is welcome and it’s not a political party.Their mission statement reads in part:“To build a strong base of conservative...
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The Tea Party is Process, Not an Episode
Amplify’d from www.rightsidenews.comFree-Market Analysis: Senator Scott Brown soared like a comet in the US political firmament. He was the unexpected Republican victor in a contest for the “Kennedy” set in Massachusetts after famous Senator Ted Kennedy passed on due to a brain tumor. Brown paid homage to Tea Party support but once in Washington he declared himself his own man and has...
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Tea Party-backed freshman to lead D.C....
Amplify’d from voices.washingtonpost.comOf the two House subcommittees tasked with overseeing the District, one will be led by a moderate Republican with local roots — and the other by a freshman Tea Party member from South Carolina. This should be interesting.The Post reported this morning that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has been tapped to chair the newly created Subcommittee on Health Care,...
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Chuck Baldwin: Restoring The Republic
Amplify’d from www.infowars.comChuck Baldwin ran in 2008 as the Constitution Party’s presidential candidate, he’s also a pastor, writer and radio talk show host. Baldwin breaks down the left-right paradigm and how the globalists are in control of both major political parties. Baldwin also discusses solutions and actions the American people can take to reverse the new world order’s criminal ...
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HEALTH CARE REPEAL: FIRST ON THE TEA PARTY TO-DO...
Amplify’d from blogs.phillymag.comMost of the newly elected Republicans in the House won on a collective promise to repeal health care, cut federal spending and reduce the deficit. The subtext of their campaigns was to be as big of a pain in the ass to President Obama as possible. The vote this week on healthcare will put a check in the box next to the first item on their Tea Party “to do”...
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Reince Priebus’s tea party tightrope
Amplify’d from www.politico.comReince Priebus faces many challenges in taking over the Republican National Committee, but among the trickiest will be building support from the anti-establishment tea party without offending big GOP donors or the independent voters the party needs in 2012.
The GOP’s ability to strike that balance could go a long way toward determining the outcome of Election Day...
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Tea Party Begins Mission to Reshape Congress
Amplify’d from www.newsmax.comNow that they’re freshmen in a GOP-run House, the political movement’s candidates are running smack into the traditions, partisan divisions and powerful competing interests that make it so hard to redirect the government.Some tea party activists — part of a loose-knit, libertarian-tinged network advocating small government and less federal spending —...
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The Tea Party Deception
Amplify’d from www.prisonplanet.comJoel Skousen, editor of World Affairs Brief, was the chairman of the Conservative National Committee in the 1980′s. In this exclusive video interview for Prison Planet.tv members, Skousen talks about the hidden power structure that controls politicians of both parties from behind the scenes, the nature of the manipulated press, the reality behind the tea party,...
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The Tea Party, Patriotism and the American Protest... →
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Defending the Tea Party
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GOP strategist Mary Matalin calls the Left’s reaction to the Tucson shootings a symptom of Palin Derangement Syndrome. “[It] is a longtime byproduct of the inability to defend or advocate an agenda,” she says. “No honest, sane person would think anyone other than a crazed or evil person could gun down a child, a judge, a congresswoman, or anyone randomly in a...
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Sharron Angle: 'Irresponsible' to blame Tea Party
Amplify’d from content.usatoday.comTea Party favorite Sharron Angle is condemning what she calls “finger-pointing” at the small-government movement in the wake of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting.Republican Sharron Angle defends the Tea Party movement. CAPTIONBy Julie Jacobson, APAngle, a former Republican nominee for Senate, said in a statement that it is...
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Tea party financier says the ‘rank and file’ are...
Amplify’d from www.rawstory.comKoch: ‘best grassroots uprising since 1776’ The American billionaire who inherited his father’s oil wealth seems to believe that the followers of the movement that he self-financed are people just like him.“There are some extremists there, but the rank and file are just normal people like us,” David Koch of Koch Industries told Lee Fang...
