March 2011
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How much leverage does tea party have?
Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.ukThe latest from Capitol Hill is that there is an agreement in principle on a budget that would cut $33 billion from domestic spending. A band of the first-term members of Congress demonstrated their legislative maturity Wednesday by announcing, in a news conference outside the Capitol, that they wished to deliver a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. But...
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Tea Party Pushes For Deeper Cuts
Amplify’d from blogs.abcnews.comThe Tea Party has emerged as a bogeyman of budget negotiations on Capitol Hill with Democrats like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accusing its members of introducing “extreme demands” on spending and some Republican leaders unsure of how to treat the influential movement.Despite what looks like the outlines of a tentative agreement on $33 billion in spending...
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GOP Freshman Discuss Tea Party Influence →
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Tea Party split on tax overhaul
Amplify’d from blogs.ajc.comHouse Republicans this morning will be presented with a letter from Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, informing the lawmakers that he won’t give them any trouble if they vote to pass HB 387, the tax overhaul bill.But Georgia Tea Party Patriots this morning is urging lawmakers to vote against it:Norquist had opposed the first version of the bill,...
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Dems Blame Tea Party for Stalemate
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comThe Capitol Hill rhetoric reached new levels of ugliness Tuesday as negotiations over some semblance of a federal budget gave way to finger-pointing, with Democrats blaming Tea Party freshmen for a potential government shutdown and Republicans calling those claims a fantasy. Over the past few days, Democrats have pounded the argument that Congress would have been able...
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Republicans fear Tea Party’s rage
Amplify’d from www.ft.comBut the biggest wild card are the party’s new kingmakers, the motley group of enraged conservatives known collectively as the Tea Party.The Tea Party had a taste of power ahead of last year’s election, when their activists were pivotal in deciding the winner of numerous Republican primaries.The Tea Party’s power means that any potential challenger will have to cut their...
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Tea Party: We Want Mitt Romney, Not Sara
Amplify’d from www.opposingviews.comCan we remove “Tea Party darling” from Sarah Palin’s moniker? If the results of a new poll are to be believed, then yes.According to a report in the New York Daily News, the poll from Pew Research finds 24% of Tea Party members say Mitt Romney is their choice for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Mike Huckabee was second with 19%,...
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Tea Party, a win for Republicans
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comWe’re coming up fast on the deadline by which Congress needs to agree on government funding or the Feds has to turn the lights off. The negotiations remain fluid, but here’s what seems pretty clear: The House Republican leadership will win, the Tea Party will be disappointed and the Democrats will lose. But really, it’ll be the Tea Party that won, the House...
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Disillusioned Republican and Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.henrymakow.comThe Tea Party Movement (TPM) is imperfect with imperfect people but my experience tells me that it is clearly the best hope we have to get things moving in the right direction or at least to slow down the slippery socialist slope we are on. The Tea Party is about taking action. I have attended the biggest TPM gatherings in DC and I am impressed by how many Tea...
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THE TEA PARTY GOES TO WASHINGTON
Amplify’d from caivn.org “If the Tea Party can be characterized in a single sentence it is this: We are concerned about the massive level of the debt and worried about passing it to younger generations.”
Through anecdotes about Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater— and the establishment Republicans who opposed them— The Tea Party Goes to Washington draws a line in the sand...
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Tea party propose NJ redistricting
Amplify’d from www.nj.comTRENTON — A tea party group is submitting its own map to the 11-member commission charged with redrawing the state’s 40 legislative districts.“We prepared our map irrespective of partisan interests and for all the people of the State of New Jersey,” said tea party activist Sean Spinello, the mapmaker, in a letter to independent commission member Alan Rosenthal. “All...
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Tea Party plans D.C. rally on budget cut
Amplify’d from www.latimes.comTea Party Patriots, an umbrella group that links local tea parties online, says it will organize a rally at the Capitol next week to express frustration with GOP politicians whom its activists helped elect. In an email to supporters sent Wednesday, the group claims that Republicans are not making good on their promise to dig deep into the budget and are poised to cave...
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Can Tea Party back one 2012 candidate?
Amplify’d from tucsoncitizen.comThe rising influence of the Tea Party makes it all but certain the grass-roots movement will have a role in the 2012 presidential contest, but what that will be is as open as the GOP field.At the very least, Tea Party activists feel the presence of a Tea Party candidate will force other GOP candidates to lean toward their defining principles.Tea Party voters won’t...
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Obama, Congress, Tea Party Fail on Libya
Amplify’d from www.usnews.comAnd where were the Tea Partyers? Dub them the “dogs that did not bark.” For two years, they have complained about elites making decisions that adversely impact ordinary Americans with less access and influence. They loved to denounce Congress, Wall Street, and Obamacare. Fearful of their wrath, Congress, for the first time in memory, debated over what to cut...
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Allen West Impersonates Harry Reid →
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Tea Party groups push 'Atlas Shrugged'
Amplify’d from content.usatoday.comTea Party groups push ‘Atlas Shrugged’Tea Party groups are talking up a new movie version of Atlas Shrugged, based on the Ayn Rand novel about a dystopian United States that collapses as government asserts control.The movie will debut in theaters on April 15. Tax Day has been a focal point for the burgeoning Tea Party movement, whose political mantra...
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Ready to Rid of Republican Appropriators
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comThe increase in membership in the various “Tea Party” organizations has led to a commensurate increase in influence. As anyone affiliated with these groups knows, every Tax Day massive rallies are held across the nation to highlight the economic (and moral) morass into which our nation has slid while under the political watch of both major parties.As if naming...
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Michael Grimm’s Tea Party Two Step →
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Tea party president? Rand Paul plays coy
Amplify’d from www.miamiherald.com Rand Paul visited South Carolina and has plans to hit several other key presidential primary states while promoting his new book, “The Tea Party Goes to Washington,” which was co-written by Jack Hunter, a Charleston-area radio host and columnist. “Part of it may be that he looks and sees so far no pure tea party candidate is...
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Misappropriation of the tea party label
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comWhat began as an insurgent movement within Republican primaries became a party-wide phenomenon, with the label of “tea party candidate” being applied to all manner of Republicans — from the small-time grassroots candidates who initially defined the tea party to longtime incumbents who had their own (convenient) tea party revelations.In the end, though,...
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Republican doesn’t equal Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.unitedliberty.orgThe Tea Party. Love them or hate them, chances are you have an opinion on them. For many left of center folks, that opinion isn’t particularly flattering. However, far to often the assertion seems to be made that GOP = Tea Party. For example, Dana Milbank recently made the assertion in a piece that Reason felt they should address. Personally, I think...
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Angle asks press for 'mutual respect'
Amplify’d from content.usatoday.comTea Party favorite Sharron Angle is trying to make amends with the news media, asking for “mutual respect” as she embarks on a campaign for a U.S. House seat in Nevada.Like Sarah Palin, another Tea Party favorite, Angle once labeled journalists the “lame stream” media.“Let’s have mutual respect for one another,” Angle...
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Will Tea Party compromise on deficit?
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comA filibuster-proof 64 senators on Friday sent
a letter to President Obama, asking him to engage in serious discussions on a broad plan for long-term deficit reduction. Encouraging. But another letter went out this weekend, from the Tea Party Patriots to its supporters, and it highlights an ironic but distinct possibility: Even if centrists unite around a real...
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How the Tea Party wins even if it loses
Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.ukOn Thursday 17 March, the Senate approved the House-passed continuing resolution that funds the federal government until 8 April. This is the sixth short-term continuing resolution (CR) since the end of September 2010, with no end in sight as Democrats and Republicans blame each other for the continuing budget impasse. “We look like idiots to the American...
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Rand Paul, the Tea Party, and the Media
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comWhile the mainstream media (networks such as NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and ABC, and publications such as Newsweek, Time, and the New York Times) are known for their belief that liberal opinion constitutes political orthodoxy, the Tea Party has robustly challenged these suppositions, especially with Senator Rand Paul’s (picture, left) emergence as the de facto head and...
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Dems indicted in fake Tea Party scandal
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comTwo former local Democratic party officials from Michigan face up to 14 years behind bars for allegedly forging paperwork to put fake Tea Party candidates on the November 2010 ballot. Former Oakland County Democratic Chair Mike McGuinness and former Democratic Operations Director Jason Bauer were indicted on a total of nine felony charges this week, local station WJBK...
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Cain blasts claims of Tea Party racism
Amplify’d from www.daily-news-trends.comHerman Cain strongly defended the movement against charges of racism. According to Cain, “Accusing the Tea Party movement of racism is not only a cheap shot, it is totally inaccurate and it is a sign of desperation on the part of those who are intimidated by the growing strength of the Tea Party movement.” “For President Obama or anybody else to say that it...
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What is the tea party movement, really?
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Unless you buried yourself underground for two years, you’ve heard of the tea party movement, especially since the November 2010 Midterm elections, when the movement rallied conservative voters to elect a majority of Republicans in the House. What is the tea party movement, really? You’ve heard it’s anti taxes and big government, just as you’ve probably heard it...
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Tea Party 'No Problem' for Speaker →
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Feeling Heat From the Right
Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.comNew York Reps. Michael Grimm and Nan Hayworth—who both won office with tea party support—have recently angered some conservatives by voting for a budget compromise with Democrats, a sign of how difficult it may be for the two Republicans to manage the competing demands of their electoral expectations and their more moderate home districts.Both voted Tuesday...
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Tea Partyers hear James O'Keefe
Amplify’d from www.app.comTea Partyers hear James O’Keefe Moral indignation is the strongest force in politics, according to James O’Keefe, the conservative activist known for his hidden-camera videos which have made headlines.Many attendees credited him in part with the House vote Thursday to prohibit local public radio stations from using federal funds to buy programs from National...
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Tea Party Goes to Washington: Rand Paul
Amplify’d from reason.comRand Paul (R-Ky.) took an unusual path to his seat in the United
States Senate: Though his father, the libertarian Rep. Ron Paul
(R-Texas), has spent decades in office, Rand Paul had never
previously held public office before winning in 2010. Throughout
his campaign, Paul fils identified more with the
Tea Party than with the Republican Party, and he ran against...
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Reporter: Tea Party a 'state of mind'
Amplify’d from www.unionleader.comOn Wednesday, Zernike, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with the New York Times, visited Goffstown to talk about her new book, “Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America.”“It’s not a party. It’s a movement, and largely it’s a state of mind,” Zernike said during a speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm...
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Tim Pawlenty joins Tea Party movement
Amplify’d from www.thestatecolumn.comFormer Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty will join the Tea Party movement in New Hampshire during an upcoming event. Mr. Pawlenty will headline a Tea Party rally in New Hamsphire next month alongside former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Rick Santorum. The “taxpayer Tea Party rally,” sponsored by Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire, will take place at the state...
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Tea Party Express battles California GOP
Amplify’d from www.politico.comThis weekend’s California Republican Party convention crystallizes some of the challenges facing party organizations everywhere, as the conservative wing of the party Establishment battles both its congressional delegation on one hand and Tea Party activists on the other over the consequences of a state shift to open primaries.And the Tea Party Express’s...
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Tea Party Revolt: Miami Mayor Recalled
Amplify’d from blogs.miaminewtimes.com“Tea Party Revolt: Miami Mayor Recalled,” proclaims Fox News’ Fox Nation website, while other Tea Party segments of the world wide web take glee in the ousting of Carlos Alvarez. True some of the politics involved share similarities: raising property taxes was the deed that caused Norman Braman to organize the recall election in the first...
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Tea Party irked at House representation
Amplify’d from tucsoncitizen.comTea Party activists knew that the dozens of members they got elected to Congress in November couldn’t balance the budget or eliminate the country’s debt overnight. Now their patience seems to be running out.Tea Party officials across the country said they were angered to see more than 30 Tea Party-backed members of Congress voting for the three-week spending plan...
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McCain Not Enjoying Tea Party →
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A Tea Party Defense Budget
Amplify’d from www.amconmag.comTea Partiers rightly fear national ruin unless government spending is reduced. The numbers quickly show such reductions must include the defense budget. The national-security state devours about half of all “discretionary” federal spending. Years ago, Sen. Charles Grassley said to President Ronald Reagan, “It’s great that you are going after the welfare queens, Mr....
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Continuing Efforts to Derail Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.chronwatch-america.comWhen the burgeoning Tea Party first became apparent in early 2009, the Democrat/media political machine attempted to simply ignore it. Later on, their response was to try to trivialize it as a “fringe movement” or, in the words of then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as “Astroturf,” an obvious intimation that it was a phony alternative to any true...
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Tea Party Republicans want shutdown
Amplify’d from www.dailykos.comMost Americans say that a federal government shutdown would be bad for the country, according to a new national poll.But a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey also indicates that Democrats and Republicans don’t see eye to eye on the issue, and self-described Tea Party movement supporters say such a shutdown, even for a long period of time, would be a good...
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Jack Hunter Goes to Washington
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Now, Hunter is doing press for a potentially career-changing opportunity: co-authoring the first book from U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), The Tea Party Goes to Washington. The book is one-part campaign trail chronicle and three-parts Tea Party road map.
One reader review on Amazon for The Tea Party Goes to Washington says it’s “for...
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Gov. Rick Scott focuses on tea party
Amplify’d from www.miamiherald.comfocuses on tea partyEven though the election is years away, Gov. Rick Scott redesigned his campaign website to prominently feature the tea party. The cost of the redesign was paid for by the state Republican party.
In an e-mail to supporters on Thursday, Scott announced the redesign of his campaign website, www.rickscottforflorida.com. Paid for by the...
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Tea Party Nation 'Anonymous' Attacked Us
Amplify’d from tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.comTea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips is claiming that the hacker collective ‘Anonymous’ is attacking the Tea Party Nation website by getting supporters to pose as Tea Party members and post racist pictures and porn. ‘Anonymous’, however, has seemingly not taken credit for the attack, nor is there much evidence the attack...
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NPR "Apologizes" to the Tea Party →
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Tea Party unhappy with spending vote
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comHouse Tea Party Caucus Chair Michele Bachmann released a statement today that she is voting against the measure, referred to as a Continuing Resolution (CR), because it does not repeal funding for President Obama’s health care reforms.
Tea Party-backed Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, chair of the conservative Republican Study...
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Tea Party Cements Patriot Act Into Place
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comIn light of recent extensions of the Patriot Act, it can be concluded that many Tea Partiers are reneging on parts of the Tea Party agenda. Of the 41 Tea Party-backed candidates, 31 voted to extend the Patriot Act, eight voted against it, and one did not vote. As John Tyner stated at Lewrockwell.com: “Despite the eight nea votes, Tea Party-backed...
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Iowa's Tea Party Kingmaker
Amplify’d from www.theatlantic.comNot even three years ago, the chairman of the Iowa Tea Party was a 26-year-old college student studying “turf grass management”—as in golf courses. Taking two years off to work odd jobs had left him without enough credits to graduate. He was broke. Now, potential presidential candidates know Ryan Rhodes on a first-name basis. And by virtue of his...
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Republicans Need New Blood to Win
Amplify’d from www.humanevents.comMitt Romney has a Tea Party problem. He held the same office as Sam Adams. The similarities end there. The former Massachusetts governor—Romney, not Adams—looks like he could have owned a merchant vessel on Griffin’s Wharf. He doesn’t look like he could have passed for one of the faux Indians dumping 342 crates into Boston Harbor. The architect of the state...
