April 2011
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Tea Party Express - Make hard decisions
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comTea party leader Amy Kremer is chairwoman of the Tea Party Express. She left the real estate and airline industries to enter politics in 2009, helping to found the Atlanta Tea Party. She went on to found Tea Party Patriots, left it amid a dispute, and then joined Tea Party Express. She was the guest speaker at the April 5 Monitor breakfast in Washington.“I am...
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Tea Party Infiltrated with Neo Cons
Amplify’d from lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.comAlan Stang and many other were right all along.Both parties are controlled by the same interest. When the Tea Parties started. They were founded by Ron Paul supporters.Ever since Obama was sworn into office.The ranks were swollen with new comers standing against the socialist leftist agenda over taxes,the loss of freedoms and national sovereignty. These...
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House votes to restrict unions
Amplify’d from www.boston.comHouse lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns.The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broadly eliminate collective bargaining rights for public...
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Tea Party House favorites raking it in
Amplify’d from www.usatoday.comTea Party-backed freshmen, elected in 2010’s anti-establishment wave, have quickly learned Washington’s fundraising practices.More than two-thirds of the newly elected Republicans in the House Tea Party Caucus collected at least a third of their campaign contributions this year from political action committees and other political committees, a USA TODAY...
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Fight for the Tea Party nod
Amplify’d from www.washingtontimes.comRepublican Party voters are desperately seeking a principled conservative who can win back the White House. The Nov. 6, 2012, election can’t come soon enough for those who want to put an end to Obamacare, trillion-dollar spending sprees and regulatory excess. On Thursday, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson announced he will run for the GOP nod in the...
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Conservative Trade Jabs Over Taxes
Amplify’d from www.npr.orgThe fight between the feisty Coburn and the pugnacious Norquist got going last month. Initially, it was over Coburn’s drive to end $5 billion a year in tax breaks for companies that blend ethanol with gasoline. Norquist agreed with Coburn that the subsidy was wasteful. But he said Coburn should also cut $5 billion in taxes elsewhere so that money would not go to the...
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Tea Party Heads to School
Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.comYORK, Pa.—Trying to plug a $3.8 million budget gap, the York Suburban School District, in the rolling hills of southern Pennsylvania, is seeking to raise property taxes by 1.4%.No way, says Nick Pandelidis, founder of the York Suburban Citizens for Responsible Government, a tea-party offshoot, of the plan that would boost the tax on a median-priced home of...
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Tea Party to Give Obama a Second Term
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comThe McClatchy-Marist Poll, which was released last Monday, revealed that those calling themselves Tea Partiers have little interest in doing anything substantial about cutting government spending. This cuts the legs out from under any attempt by conservatives in Washington to rein in that spending and it also gives President Obama a huge edge going into the...
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Some GOP Freshmen Squeezed
Amplify’d from www.npr.orgAs Politico also notes, Barletta and other Republican freshmen are also catching flak from Tea Party movement members who believe lawmakers aren’t cutting enough spending.Thus, the political futures of these freshmen are likely to be determined by many more voters coming out, including those motivated by concerns about real and proposed cuts to federal programs they...
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Hijacking the Republican Party
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comThe GOP has allowed the Tea Party and misfits like Donald Trump to hijack the party.The fact is that there is no Tea Party. There is no nationwide organization, no centralized leadership, no determined “leader” and no Tea Party candidates. The Republican Party has let the Tea Party divide them and in the long term will do lasting damage to the party if...
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A New Take On Redistricting →
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'Tea party' license plate draws ire
Amplify’d from www.azcentral.com“Don’t tread on me” may soon be a slogan on a new license plate in Arizona. But critics say the proposal treads on shaky ground, getting the state involved in the “tea party,” a political movement that has embraced the phrase as its own.Even some tea partyers say the bill is the antithesis of what they’re about: minimal government...
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Poll - Tea Partiers Won’t Cut Spending
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comFrom reading the news and listening to the talking heads, one might get the impression that the Tea Party movement consists of government-slashing radicals who are equally fed up with both the big-government Democrats and the slightly-smaller-government Republicans. A recent McClatchy-Marist poll, however, suggests that Tea Party members and sympathizers are...
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Echoes of the Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.newsrealblog.comIn the wake of passing Representative Paul Ryan’s budget plan, some members of Congress have hosted town hall meetings upon returning to their home districts. Slate’s David Weigel notes a curious lack of anger at these proceedings, particularly compared to the outrage over Obamacare which swept the nation during the August 2009 recess.If they were, it still...
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What's next for the Tea Party movement?
Amplify’d from lincolntribune.comThe turnout for this year’s Tax Day Tea Party in Greensboro was about half of the turnout for last year’s event. Does that mean the death of the movement? No. This year is an off-year for the news-grabbing political races.Likewise, the Tea Party events attract concerned citizens who want a Constitutionally limited government, a balanced Federal budget, and free...
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Tea Party David Vs. Two-Headed Goliath
Amplify’d from www.americanthinker.comI am so sick of advisors cautioning us conservatives to walk on eggshells when dealing with the liberal media. It has even been suggested that we stop using the term “tea party” due to the negative image created by the media. Tons of articles have been written calling me a stupid self loathing n****r, an Uncle Tom, a tea party minstrel, a traitor,...
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Party’s Over
Amplify’d from www.nationaljournal.comRep. Jeffrey Landry, R-La., a tea party favorite, beat a former state House speaker in the primary last year en route to winning his seat in Congress. Now, state legislators in the party establishment have exacted their revenge: When it came time to eliminate one of Louisiana’s congressional seats—required under this year’s reapportionment—they picked...
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Liberals Struggle with Tea Party
Amplify’d from capitolhillcoffeehouse.comSo where does the Tea Party stand today? If you ask that question in different locations you are going to get many different answers. If you listen to lefties such as columnist Ted Reinstein, you will hear that the Tea Party is a dying dinosaur suffering from what he describes as the terminal illness of being uncompromising. Reinstein blames the recent slow...
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Tea Party - A quiz →
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Speakers warm up Tea Party rally
Amplify’d from unioneagle.comA dozen speakers, if you count Jake MacAulay who gave the prayer at the beginning, warmed a crowd of close to 50 to rally around the values of the Tea Party last Saturday in an outdoor setting that had temperatures in the 30s.The messages heard in Tea Party rallies across the nation are a push for reduction of government controls and a call for lower taxes, along with...
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Can a Conservative Still Get Elected?
Amplify’d from www.theatlantic.comTim Pawlenty’s Tax Day rally in Boston didn’t draw nearly as much notice as Sarah Palin’s in Wisconsin or Donald Trump’s in Florida. And that, in a nutshell, is his big problem. Pawlenty would like to be the next Republican presidential nominee, but nobody is paying him much mind.In theory, the successful two-term Republican governor of...
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'Don't Tread On Me' license plate
Amplify’d from hosted.ap.org Arizona tea party supporters would have a new way of showing their affinity for the movement under a bill sent to Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday that creates a special “Don’t Tread On Me” license plate. The plate would feature the rattlesnake emblem and yellow background of the historic Gadsden Flag that is a symbol of the tea party movement. Opponents...
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Tea Party exciting political movement
Amplify’d from inthearena.blogs.cnn.comONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today’s five OFF-SET questions is Adam Bellow, an executive editor at HarperCollins, publisher of Broadside Books, which has just launched a series of short digital pamphlets called “Voices of the Tea Party.”Bellow, formerly an editor at Doubleday, guided the publishing of such provocative conservative books as...
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Spitzer, Tea Party find common ground →
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Tea Party Recall Petitions Against Dems
Amplify’d from www.slate.comWisconsin Democrats have been ringing alarm bells every time they submit a new batch of petitions to recall Republican state senators. Today they’ve announced something more than 15,744 signatures to recall Sheila Harsdorf — the fourth senator on the block. So what’s happening with the Republican efforts to recall Democrats? After all, Republicans beat...
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Tea party surprises presidential race
Amplify’d from fremonttribune.comIn addition, last month’s gathering of social conservatives in
Iowa, which attracted several likely candidates, gave the best
reception to the founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, Rep.
Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.Bachmann showed grass-roots support elsewhere and some
fund-raising potential, indicating she may not only run but could
become a more...
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Tea Party-Backed Flag Status as U.S Flag
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comArizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law this week a bill that prevents homeowners associations from banning the black-on-yellow Gadsden flags — the Tea Party-favored banners displaying the coiled rattlesnake and “Don’t Tread on Me” message.Under the new law, the flag has the same protected status as the American flag, the flags of any military...
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Police help Pro-Union disrupt Tea Party
Amplify’d from wireupdate.comA new series of videos released over the weekend reportedly shows Boston Police assisting Pro-Union supporters disrupt a Boston Tea Party event. The video published on Youtube by user Bluesmovers shows a group of Pro-Union supporters march in front the Tea Party’s speaking platform and remain there for the duration of the event.Bluesmovers describes the scene, “Just as...
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Trump Electrifies Raucous Tea Party
Amplify’d from nation.foxnews.comDonald Trump unleashed a fiery anti-President Barack Obama stump speech for members and supporters of the South Florida Tea Party Saturday and made frequent references to what he would do as president.Throngs of fired-up voters in a vote-rich battleground state encouraged him.While the billionaire real estate developer is not currently a presidential candidate, his...
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Tea Party Boiling Over Budget Compromise
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.com“A go-along, get-along Republican” who “doesn’t have stomach for a fight.” Those were the words used by Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips to describe Speaker of the House John Boehner after Boehner cut a deal with Democrats to keep the federal government funded.
So dismayed and disappointed are the Tea Party faithful that dispatches from the various...
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Atlas Shrugged – and The Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.independent.co.uk
In place of overweight men queuing for the latest Star Wars re-hash or spotty
youths awaiting another Twilight installment was line after line of
middle-age white people wearing tricorn hats, stars-and-stripes T-shirts and
pin badges suggesting that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This is the Tea
Party, on a big night out.
But that was before the...
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Congresswoman Deride Tea Party Lawmakers
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comA Democratic congresswoman, frustrated with her interactions with a new class of Tea Party-backed conservative lawmakers, mocked them this week by talking in a Southern accent and referring to them as “Moe,” during an interview on nationally syndicated radio show.Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., told liberal host Stephanie Miller that every time she tries...
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Obama differs with tea party
Amplify’d from www.google.comPresident Barack Obama praises the tea party movement for getting Americans engaged in politics, but he says he strongly disagrees with its views.Obama told The Associated Press on Friday that the tea party has forced important questions to the surface of political debate. They include how much government the nation can afford.Obama said it’s clear that he and...
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Tea Party Congressman Cultivates Base
Amplify’d from www.nytimes.comJust as dairy cows, oxen and horses once called a 19th-century northwest suburban barn home, an assuredly more fleeting but vocal species found comfort there Monday evening: a Tea Party congressman and his partisans.Representative Joe Walsh, a no-shot candidate who scored an upset last November, held the 20th town-hall-style meeting of an early and so far fearless...
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Tea Party Protests on Anniversary →
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Democrats Efforts To Fracture Tea Party
Amplify’d from capitolhillcoffeehouse.comOnly one entity stands in the way of business as usual in Washington. And that is the conservative grassroots uprising known as the “Tea Party.” Since its inception in early 2009, the political establishment and its media propagandists have sought to undermine and ultimately, neutralize this insurgency of the peasantry. From its early mischaracterization as...
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Spending bill 260-167 bipartisan vote
Amplify’d from thehill.comThe House on Thursday passed a bill reflecting last week’s agreement to fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal 2011 by a 260-167 vote in which most Republicans supported it and most Democrats opposed it.Fifty-nine Republicans voted against the measure, a sign that many conservatives are still disappointed that their leadership was not able to negotiate...
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Is Neocon Tea Party Patriot HQ Dying?
Amplify’d from www.favstocks.comOn the neocon Tea Party Patriot HQ Web site, their events page remains empty. Nothing showing they will rally this weekend against the oppressive government they often support with their unofficial endorsements for candidates who go to Congress and vote for anti Constitutional bills like the USA Patriot Act. If the once-for-profit Tea Party, which is really a neocon...
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How to Concede Politics Without Trying
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comOver the past three months the Republican Party, the Tea Party and conservatives activist organizations in general (even Libertarians) have produced their own adaptation on the theme — a dark comedy that would, in any other era be funny. While the tendency in politics to criticize one’s own smacks of treason, it is time for a reality check. Joseph Curl...
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Tea partiers weigh debt filibuster
Amplify’d from www.politico.comThe Senate’s Tea Party Caucus will face a tough decision when it comes time to vote to raise the national debt limit: Fall in line behind Republican leadership or go rogue.The founding members of the new caucus – freshman Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and second-term Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) – are each considering whether to mount a filibuster to...
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Change Way Washington Spends Money
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comNeed to ChangeSenator Mike Lee of Utah joins us live. Good evening, sir. And we’re out of money unless the House and the Senate and the president all sign off on this 2011 fiscal budget deal. Are you going to?SEN. MIKE LEE, R-UTAH: I don’t intend to vote for it.VAN SUSTEREN: Why?LEE: Because we are almost $1.7 trillion in debt with every new year of...
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GOP conservative balks at budget deal
Amplify’d from content.usatoday.comAdd Rep. Jim Jordan, leader of an influential group of conservative Republicans, to the list of GOP lawmakers who will vote against the budget deal that averted a government shutdown.Jordan, R-Ohio, is chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, whose ranks include dozens of the freshmen GOP members allied with the small-government Tea Party...
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The tea party's social agenda
Amplify’d from www.politico.comThe tea party movement’s economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group. Its top priorities, as listed on its Wikipedia page, include cutting taxes, debt and spending, repealing Obama’s health care plan and advocating a constitutionally limited government.After that, however, this is still a fundamentally conservative cohort...
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The Sununus and the tea party
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.com Asked about the relevance of tea party-backed U.S. senators earlier this year, John E. Sununu he told CNN: “This is not only a story that’s overblown, but it’s 180 degrees from the truth … This is like the most establishment insider class of senators that you’ve had, I bet, in 35 years.”They have a point: many tea party activists in...
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Bachmann fills Tea Party role
Amplify’d from www.reuters.comBut she also emphasizes an anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage agenda that appeals to social and religious conservatives, helping her build a strong donor network that raised more than $13 million for her 2010 House campaign and more than $2 million in the first three months of 2011.“She is trying to carve out a niche with the Tea Party,” Bonjean said....
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Paul and Rubio: Two Tea Party Candidates
Amplify’d from www.campaignforliberty.comAt almost the same moment Senator Rand Paul introduced a resolution to express the “sense of the Senate that the president does not have the power to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve actual or imminent threat to the nation,” Paul’s “tea party backed” colleague Marco Rubio resolved...
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Tea Party Brokers Budget, Obama Retreats
Amplify’d from finance.townhall.comBut the grassroots gave Boehner and the GOP the clout they needed to cut the budget. That bodes well for future negotiations. The Democrats have already conceded the need to cut and have been left with only a feeble protest against the Tea Party as a counter. That might work for a president who is popular in the polls, but for Obama it’s a sign of how irrelevant...
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Tea Party movement split on budget deal
Amplify’d from dailycaller.comNational Tea Party movement leaders are divided when it comes to whether or not they support the 11th hour budget deal House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama cut late Friday night.Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler came out in strong opposition to the deal. “In the seven days preceding last night’s deal, our...
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Tea Party victor in budget battle
Amplify’d from www.telegraph.co.uk
Some key Tea Party organisers and congressmen griped about not winning all the
cuts they wanted, but they are hard too please. At their behest, the
Republicans demanded $61 billion in cuts and only had to settle for a third
less.
He would never have made such a boast before the Tea Party’s anti-spending
campaign swept a wave of Republicans into...
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Budget deal doesn't thrill Tea Party
Amplify’d from politicalticker.blogs.cnn.comSome leading national Tea Party organizations are anything but happy with Friday night’s deal on the budget that prevented a federal government shutdown.A spokesman for the Tea Party Express tells CNN the group isn’t “very impressed” with the budget deal and says the agreement proves the Tea Party has a lot more work to do to make...
