February 2011
90 posts
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Former Utah Senator Reflects on Being a Victim of... →
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The Tea Party rolls on with policy summit in...
Amplify’d from washingtonexaminer.comPHOENIX - First impressions from the Tea Party Patriots Policy Summit are that the 2,000-plus attendees are older than CPAC-goers, and much more focused on policy than personalities. I don’t think the Donald would rock the house here. Too many TPPers know the Aaron Burr story far too well.The legions of agenda-carrying, seminar-attending TPPers who have...
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As unions rally in Trenton, tea party protesters...
Amplify’d from articles.philly.comTeachers, many of whom said they had taken personal days off, said they were there to stand up for their union leaders. Christie often asserts that he has a problem only with teachers’ unions, not teachers.Many of the union members showed anger over the bailouts and bonuses for Wall Street banks, arguing that government was enriching the wealthy and making...
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Tea party uses Arizona summit to scope out 2012...
Amplify’d from www.jacksonsun.com Tea party supporters packed a Phoenix convention center today to hear from two possible contenders for next year’s Republican presidential nomination — an election the conservative populist movement is determined to shape after helping the GOP to big gains in the midterm elections.Potential candidates are trying to figure out how far they need to go to win over...
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Tea Party Corners Fugitive Indiana Democrats
Amplify’d from www.humanevents.comOne such spider hole turned out to be the Comfort Suites Hotel in Urbana, Illinois, where Indiana fleebaggers have been hiding from democracy. Democracy found them anyway, in the form of a little band of Tea Party activists, who assembled for a protest at the hotel. Fox News reports there were about a dozen of them, “mostly senior citizens.” This makes sense,...
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Hispanic to lead local tea party
Amplify’d from www.mysanantonio.comThe San Antonio faction of the tea party movement has named George Rodriguez as its new president.He was previously chairman of the Juan Seguin Society, an organization formed by the local tea party to reach out to Hispanics.Rodriguez, 62 said he’s the first Hispanic president of a large tea party group.The group is planning to invite City Council...
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Angle: Tea Party movement is here to stay
Amplify’d from www.unionleader.comTea Party favorite Sharron Angle, who challenged U.S. Majority Leader Harry Reid last November, believes the movement will propel politics in this country for generations.Speaking to reporters to promote the Christian movie “The Genesis Code,” Angle said the Tea Party is not a third-party movement or one built around someone’s personality, but...
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Bachmann: Tea Party Is 'Keeping Us Honest'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqU5Vvg4iMc&feature=youtube_gdataAmplify’d from www.foxnews.comVAN SUSTEREN: The Tea Party sort of evolved. It never had a leader. BACHMANN: No, I’m not. I’m not the leaders because the great thing about the Tea Party is that it’s truly the American people, and it cuts across party lines. And it’s people who aren’t political at...
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Wisconsin Unions vs. The Tea Party: A Classic...
Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.comOver the past several days, the liberal demonstrations in Wisconsin (bolstered by the national Democratic Party and President Obama’s Organizing for America group) have included signs just as inflammatory as the ones that bothered the networks during the health care debate, including several showing Governor Scott Walker as Adolph Hitler. Others have...
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Tea Party Member Confronts AWOL Wisconsin... →
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Knowing the Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.fixcongressfirst.orgThis weekend, Tea Party supporters will gather in Phoenix for their second national convention. This post is a snapshot of the Tea Party’s current state. Who supports it? What are their political views? What are people saying about them?Some quick statistics about the Tea Party’s composition:12% of all American voters identify as part of the Tea Party...
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Conservative N.J. lawmaker, tea party activists...
Amplify’d from www.nj.comTRENTON — As public workers and supporters started to gather outside the Statehouse to show solidarity with Wisconsin public workers and protest Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed budget, a conservative lawmaker and several tea-party activists tried to head off their message with their own. “Gov. Christie has some common sense proposals. This is not an attack on our public...
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All New Richmond teachers expected to get...
Amplify’d from www.hudsonstarobserver.comThe New Richmond School Board was expected to vote on a recommendation to issue preliminary non-renewal notices to its entire certified teaching staff Thursday.Currently, Wisconsin law says that preliminary notices must be served by Feb. 28 unless another date is specified in the local collective bargaining agreement. According to New Richmond’s current...
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In Wisconsin's long shadow, unions and tea...
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comAcross the country, Democratic-backed unions and Republican-backed tea party activists – essentially ideological alter egos – are facing off on the streets. The dueling protesters want to show solidarity with their respective causes and to voice their opinions in a high-stakes debate that could rewrite long-standing social compacts.“This is a very polarizing...
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Tea party made clash with public-sector unions...
Amplify’d from blogs.ajc.comA showdown like the ones we’re seeing in state capitals across the Midwest has been building since the idea of a tea party movement was born on a Chicago trading floor.While the tea partyers’ outrage was raw, most of the special interests were smart enough to keep their efforts to remain entrenched hidden in the usual back channels, whether in Washington or state...
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Phase Three of Tea Party Movement to Begin This...
Amplify’d from politics.blogs.foxnews.comThe third phase of the Tea Party movement will kick off this weekend in Phoenix, at the first annual Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit. Thousands of activists from across America will descend on the Grand Canyon state to get educated about the issues, and discuss exactly what they want congress to do moving forward.The Tea Party’s short...
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Liberals to stage Tea Party-like revolts against...
Amplify’d from thehill.comDemocratic strategists believe their Tea Party moment has arrived. Working with labor unions and liberal groups, they are using the Presidents Day congressional recess to organize a public backlash against billions of dollars in cuts to federal programs. Mike Lux, a Democratic strategist who works with liberal groups, said Democrats hope to replicate a Tea Party-like...
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Something Like a Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.alternativeright.comAmerica’s historic majority isn’t actually more enamoured with laissez-faire capitalism than other peoples around the world, or more “Center Right,” as is commonly asserted. What is unusual about White Americans is that some 50 percent of them consider themselves “middle class.” (This number is, no doubt, significantly higher among those who vote regularly...
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Rand Paul’s Tea Party Manifesto
Amplify’d from www.amconmag.comThis weekend I had a chance to read Rand Paul’s new book, The Tea Party Goes to Washington. It is a much bolder book than Rand skeptics would have expected, and it is also a strategically clever book, for reasons I’ll get to in a moment. To be sure, Rand’s anecdotes from the campaign trail and from his days as a boy growing up in the Paul household are well executed...
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A tale of two tea party strategies
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While Hatch has attended tea party events and the Conservative Political Action Conference in an attempt to prove his conservative bona fides, a defiant Lugar pokes fingers in the eyes of his critics on the right. “I’ve got to say, ‘Get real.’ I hear tea party or other people talking about they were against START. I said, ‘Well, now, hang on here,’” the 78-year-old...
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Lies about tea party come true in Wisconsin
Amplify’d from blogs.ajc.comThe public-sector union protests continue in Wisconsin and other Midwestern states. James Taranto,who writes the Best of the Web Today column at WSJ.com, finds it “quite striking the way almost every lie the left ever told about the Tea Party has turned out to be true of the government unionists in Wisconsin and their supporters:If only the tea partyers had been accused...
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Tea Party members should take a prayer in their...
Amplify’d from www.canadafreepress.comIt will take as much common sense, as it will courage, to be a Tea Party protester in union-made-ugly Wisconsin today.It is the Tea Party Movement that Obama most fears. Obama needs the Tea Party off the radar if he is going to win re-election in 2012.Tea Party members will be painted like ghosts who don’t exist by an Obama compliant mainstream media. ...
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Tea Party Groups Angered by GOP’s Choice for N.Y....
Amplify’d from www.rollcall.comAll last week, Democrats had downplayed expectations in the region that is home to unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, the tea party favorite who won in the 26th district last November but was otherwise blown out in the governor’s race. Late last week, Paladino threw his support behind Corwin. And while Paladino’s support seemed to have ensured tea...
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Asman: Wisconsin Ground Zero for Tea Party... →
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Commies Claim Socialism is More Popular than the...
Amplify’d from beforeitsnews.com According to an Article on the Communist Party USA News, People’s World, Socialism is more popular now than the Tea Party:“In a Washington Post/ABC Poll nearly six in 10 now say Obama understands their problems, an eight-point increase over where he stood in September.In a separate Washington Post/CBS poll, 52 percent of Americans now hold unfavorable views of the...
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Tea Party Member Talks Protest →
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Lies, War, the Patriot Act, and Tea Party...
Amplify’d from deadlinelive.infoThe Tea Party is such a movement. It was started as a non partisan, grass roots organization promoting smaller government and fewer taxes. As the movement grew, however, it was infiltrated by neo conservatives who, while wanting smaller government and less taxation for social programs, feel it’s fine to grow government and increase taxes when it comes to funding war...
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Tea party activists trap state senator with recall...
Amplify’d from host.madison.comThe
tea party threat to recall two Democratic Wisconsin senators
who fled the state rather than vote on Walker’s controversial
budget repair bill is gaining national attention after activists
cornered one of the senators as he attempted to climb into his car
Friday.A YouTube
video of the encounter with Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Eagle River,
and his colleague Sen....
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Times’ Slanted Wisconsin Coverage Contrasts With...
Amplify’d from www.commentarymagazine.comIn 2009 and 2010 the New York Times covered protests against the Obama administration’s stimulus spending bill and health care plan as the barely legal revolt of an unwashed and uncivil band of reactionaries determined not only to halt what the paper considered progress but also to thwart democracy. But anyone looking at the Times’ front page article on...
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Michele Bachmann Channels Her Inner Pelosi: We...
Amplify’d from opeds.comMichele Bachmann had quite a gig going for a while. Attractive, well spoken, sharp witted with a friendly delivery, Bachmann had been a Tea Party darling from the beginning of the movement. Less polarizing than Palin, many considered Bachmann to be the best chance for a conservative Presidential contender.One of the issues near and dear to the hearts of Tea Party patriots...
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GOP Battles Dems, Tea Party over Budget →
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A few suggestions to keep Tea Party viable
Amplify’d from www.mpnnow.com1. They need to nominate competent candidates. Crazy wing nuts with a slew of past indiscretions and a bundle of weird quotes will not do in better times.2. The party needs candidates who focus on one area, economic or social. Combining the two puts libertarians and people who are economically conservative and socially progressive into having to make tough choices.3....
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The Tea Party: A clear and present message
Amplify’d from www.mpnnow.comEvery 40 to 50 years we see a major shift in our party system which is called realignment. These realignments can take many forms, but the most popular are those which give birth to a new party or change the traditional base of the two parties to reflect a new political landscape.Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s speech following President Obama’s State of the Union address...
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Betrayed! Tea Party Politicians Vote To Renew The...
Amplify’d from endoftheamericandream.comWhat was perhaps most disappointing was that a large number of “Tea Party politicians” cast votes in favor of renewing the Patriot Act provisions.Many Americans voted for Tea Party candidates during the last election hoping that they would be willing to stand up for liberty and freedom.As a Christian, I deeply oppose laws such as the Patriot...
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Tea Party makes a quick mark in Congress
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The Tea Party won its first big victory in Congress on Thursday, forcing House of Representatives Republican leaders to make deeper spending cuts than they planned and setting up a showdown with the White House and Democratic-led Senate.
Earlier in the week, Republican leaders suffered a series of setbacks in House floor votes after a rebellion by the...
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Tea party out to defeat 3 longtime GOP senators
Amplify’d from www.google.comWASHINGTON (AP) — What does a longtime Republican senator with a national reputation for working well with Democrats do in the face of a potentially career-ending tea party challenge?If you’re Richard Lugar of Indiana, you tell them to “get real.”If you’re Olympia Snowe of Maine, you fight off the “Snowe Removal” effort by making key...
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MACGREGOR: Tea Party tempest at CPAC
Amplify’d from www.washingtontimes.comOne cannot mention CPAC 2011 (Conservative Political Action Conference) without invoking the Tea Party. The Tea Party‘s energy, enthusiasm and political stamina permeated CPAC 2011. Speakers at CPAC were not in Washington to rouse a crowd but to harness the Tea Party‘s power. In fact, speakers like Newt Gingrich, Rand Paul and Michele Bachmann were at most...
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Tea Party group to GOP: Don't 'reward...
Amplify’d from thehill.com• Keep working to put full repeal on the president’s desk;• Not repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board or reduce any of the various taxes, unless the affected industries endorse full repeal; and not re-fund Medicare Advantage unless the health insurance lobby publicly endorses full repeal;• “Improve” the law only so long as the improvements...
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Rand Paul: 'Our Whole Economy Is Equal to Our Debt... →
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Ron Paul and the Moment of Truth for the Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.thebradentontimes.comRon Paul once again left the Conservative Political Action Conference with a first place finish among attendees participating in a straw poll of who they support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Paul bested fellow former candidate and ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney 30 percent to 23, with rest of the field polling in the 2-5 percent...
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GOP Battles Dems, Tea Party over Budget →
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Tea Party Crashes: The Most UnPatriotic Act
Amplify’d from theintelhub.comI confess that since November I’ve been holding my breath, watching the clock for how long Tea Party newcomers could hold out against the entrenched Republican elite on Capitol Hill. Collapse was inevitable, however I admit to feeling bitterly surprised at how rapidly they have thrown in the towel.For the record, most of the Tea Party quit their principles of liberty...
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Tea Party Caucus Leader Bachmann Votes for PATRIOT...
Amplify’d from www.infowars.comNow that establishment Republicans have managed to steer the Tea Party into the political Borg Hive and run off the real patriots, it is time to get the neocon total war agenda back on track.Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann, like Alaska’s Sarah Palin, likes to pretend she is at the center of the Tea Party movement. She talks loud and long about the Constitution and the...
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Budget battle will test Tea Party movement
Amplify’d from www.usatoday.comWASHINGTON — The reaction of Tea Party-backed Congress members to the budget cuts and spending freeze proposed by President Obama on Monday was swift and unanimous: not nearly enough.“You don’t claim that you’re addressing the problem of a burning building because you’re not adding fuel to the fire,” said Sen. Mike Lee, a freshman...
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$100B— For Tea Party patriots, it’s the ante for...
Amplify’d from thehill.comLast week, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) ended weeks of budget speculation and caterwauling in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee. He not only committed to cutting $100 billion from his first budget as Speaker, he suggested in his comments that he was committed to cutting even more. With the release of the Republican budget on Friday, it appears that...
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