June 2011
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Convention gathers tea party, Patriot groups
Amplify’d from www.dispatch.comLeaders of the Ohio Tea Party and Patriot groups met at Nancy Channel’s house in Canal
Winchester in December to consider a pivotal question: What next?The groups already had made an impact by abetting the Republican juggernaut in the 2010 midterm
election and were eager to exert their collective influence at the Statehouse and in Congress, and
in the 2012...
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The Tea Party Supervises the GOP
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As lawmakers in Washington work to negotiate a deal on the debt ceiling, leaders of the tea-party movement have a message for Republicans: You are being watched. In the wake of what many consider an abysmal budget deal negotiated in April to avoid a government shutdown — Republicans had pledged to cut $100 billion, but wound up with only $40 billion, most of...
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Democrats and the T.E.A. Party
Amplify’d from www.intellectualconservative.comAfter more than two years of vilification and excoriation have Progressive Democrats found the lever to destroy the T.E.A. Party?I read a short article on Newsmax.com last Tuesday that was entitled “Democrats Launching Their Own Tea Party”. And I thought to myself; “Yeah, like that’ll work.” For those gentle readers here...
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Tea Party's Pick: Michele Bachmann or Ron Paul?
Amplify’d from www.newsmax.comFinally, there is the whole thing about making a decision and sticking to it. Let’s say you move to Bachmann because you are impressed with her polling numbers. And then the media exposes some story that hits her hard and the numbers drop. Or Ron Paul spends some television advertising and his numbers climb. Will you move back? The problem with moving from candidate...
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Tea Party Senators Dismiss Tim Pawlenty's...
Amplify’d from www.huffingtonpost.com If former Minnesota governor and GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty was hoping for support from the Republican Tea Party wing after his foreign policy speech Tuesday, he was looking in the wrong place.
Tea Party favorites Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) both sided with the position voiced by Republican presidential candidate Jon...
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Who will be sipping the Whitehouse tea next year?
Amplify’d from theforeigner.noEarly indications show the Right Wing, Minnesota Congressman’s dream may come, even though she currently trails Mitt Romney in the Republican representative race by one percent.She hits back at the current President’s leadership skills, accusing him of leaving America in a financial ditch because of increasing national debt and the constant high rate of employment,...
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Tea Party Finds Power Leads to Policy Splits
Amplify’d from www.nytimes.comWhen Tea Party groups celebrated their victories here in November — they had helped take the governor’s office and the legislature — it seemed that one of their priorities, school choice legislation, would have an easy time passing.Instead, the bill, which would provide vouchers to poor families who want better schools for their children, has sparked what one Tea...
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Will Compromise Kill the Tea Party?
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Benjy Sarlin asks whether Tea Partiers
have set themselves up for perpetual disappointment by demanding Republicans be more obstinate on the debt ceiling than the party’s willing to be.
“The bottom line is this: the only way to cut is to impose the debt ceiling cap,” Tea Party Patriots co-founder...
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Don’t buy media lies about Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.nj.comTea parties, especially the Greenwich Tea Party Patriots of South Jersey (GTPPSJ), are dedicated to teaching, educating and informing their members about political matters and our Constitution.Through this effort patriots can learn about the good and the bad things relating to our local, state and national governments. The GTPPSJ is a patriotic group of farmers, clerks,...
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Tea Partiers Like Bachmann, But Want Others to...
Amplify’d from www.wallstreetjournal.comA gathering of tea party activists near Capitol Hill this morning suggested members of that demographic are still very much up for grabs. Representatives of about 60 conservative activist groups were in town this weekend to talk organizing strategies for the 2012 elections with FreedomWorks, the conservative advocacy group that helped kick start the tea...
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Look who's launching anti-tea-party group
Amplify’d from www.wnd.comA new movement led by communist revolutionary group founder Van Jones seeks to counter the tea party while petitioning for a progressive agenda that includes “making Wall Street and the super-rich pay their fair share.”
The organization, dubbed “The American Dream Movement,” is partnered with a slew of radical groups funded by billionaire George...
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Orrin Hatch takes tea party heat
Amplify’d from www.politico.comDespite his overtures to the tea party movement this year, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, Orrin Hatch of Utah, still hasn’t won over voters like Darcy Van Orden, who hasn’t forgotten his moderate past and wants the National Republican Senatorial Committee to pull its support for him in 2012.Van Orden joined about 20 Utahns and a couple dozen more...
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Tea Party Plans Its Own Debt Panel
Amplify’d from thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.comWhile the Tea Party movement has led the charge for cutting the national debt, its supporters have often struggled to explain how, exactly, they would do so.Now some are out to change that, joining a Tea Party debt commission that plans to hold hearings over the summer, in the hopes of delivering recommendations to lawmakers by January. The commission is...
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Van Jones Is Creating the Milli Vanilli of Tea...
Amplify’d from biggovernment.comTruther, Self-described communist, and former Obama Green Jobs Czar Van Jones has a new mission, to start a progressive version of the Tea Party movement. Just like the real tea party, the Van Jones creation is based on economics. There are major differences though, being a progressive movement its basic premise is a lie, and instead of being a bottom up grass...
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Real Tea Party principals
Amplify’d from www.sierrastar.comOne major misstatement was the reference to Tea Party Republicans. There is no such thing as a Tea Party Republican any more than that there is a Tea Party Democrat. There are political representatives who most or least adhere to Tea Party principles stated above and these can be in any party or no party. True, there are more adherents at this point in time in the...
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Huntsman called the anti-tea party candidate
Amplify’d from www.sltrib.comRepublicans split over Afghan drawdown. Huntsman: the anti-tea party candidate. Utah’s wide achievement gap.Happy Thursday and welcome to Political Cornflakes, Jon Huntsman Jr. continues his announcement tour in Florida today where he will officially open his campaign headquarters in Orlando, where his wife’s family is from, before hitting a series of...
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David Tyree Delivers 63,000 Petitions Against New...
Amplify’d from www.christianpost.comNEW YORK – Hundreds of protesters against the legalization of gay marriage in New York jammed the hallways of the Capitol building Monday as Republican senators privately discussed whether to bring the same-sex marriage issue to a floor vote.Demonstrators opposing gay marriage, including Christian ministers, African-American church members and Tea Party...
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N.Y. gay-marriage bill amended for passage
Amplify’d from www.upi.comThe New York Legislature went into overtime as lawmakers amended a gay-marriage bill to ease Republican concerns and pass the measure, a GOP leader said.“We’re making sure the religious protections are solid and that they will stand,” Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Rockville Centre Republican, said after a closed-door meeting with Democratic Gov....
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Blacks Defend Tea Party Against Racist Claims
Amplify’d from www.cbn.comAfrican Americans across the country are rising up to defend the Tea Party movement, which has faced charges their ranks were riddled with racists since rising to prominence. Now many minorities are standing up for the Tea Party, saying there’s no proof. He points out that two of the Tea Partiers favorite politicians are a black congressman and a black presidential...
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Tea Party members told they are 'the heart and...
Amplify’d from www.nj.comHundreds of people gathered Saturday afternoon for the second annual “Let Freedom Ring” rally organized by the Greenwich Tea Party Patriots of South Jersey at the Salem County Fairgrounds here. The day was tagged to be a celebration of American liberty, and many guest speakers at the event explored that concept through religion in politics, the Obama administration and...
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Haley Barbour: Tea Party must stick with GOP
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told a crowd of conservative activists at the Republican Leadership Conference Friday that they should not “get hung up on purity” when it comes to the Republican nominee for president.That’s why, he argued, that the Tea Party cannot effectively serve as a third party, splitting votes on the right.There has been a...
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Tea Party group targets Orrin Hatch for defeat
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comConservative PAC FreedomWorks, a prominent Tea Party group chaired by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, is targeting Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch in the 2012 Senate race. The group, arguing Hatch has insufficiently conservative economic views, is launching the so-called “Retire Orrin Hatch” campaign at Utah’s Republican Convention on...
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Tea Party movement
Amplify’d from www.scribd.comThe Tea Party movement is a populist, conservative/libertarian, political movement inthe United States that grew throughout 2009 into a series of locally and nationallycoordinated protests. The protests were partially in response to several Federal laws:the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the American Recovery andReinvestment Act of 2009,and a series of...
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Tea party summer camp held in Florida
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comA tea party group called the Tampa 912 Project will host a weeklong seminar in mid-July that promises to teach Florida kids about the principles on which the group says our nation was founded. Those principles include: ”America is good,” “I believe in God, and he is the center of my life,” and “I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want...
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Tea party tour audience likes Bachmann, Cain, Paul...
Amplify’d from www.desmoinesregister.comPolitical activists who attended an Iowa Tea Party event here Monday night gave mixed reviews to seven Republican candidates who participated in a presidential debate in New Hampshire.In a show of applause after they watched the debate on television at the Elks Club here, the loudest clapping went to Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and...
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News Sentinel video on tea party movement wins...
Amplify’d from www.knoxnews.comNews Sentinel video on tea party movement wins national award
By News Sentinel staffThe News Sentinel’s website knoxnews.com won a 2011 National Edward R. Murrow Award Tuesday for a video documentary on the tea party movement.“The Tea Party: Brewing Up a Movement” won in the “Online News Operation...
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Redistricting a new headache for GOP frosh
Amplify’d from www.politico.comThe census-driven redistricting this year has created an every-man-for-himself climate for freshman lawmakers in Illinois, Ohio and New York — states with slow-growing populations — and it’s forcing the rookies to learn the hard-bitten lessons of running for a second term in a year when state legislators have the power to essentially end a political career with the...
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AIM to Attend Waco TEA Party Convention
Amplify’d from www.aim.orgAccuracy in Media (AIM) will be leading grassroots media training sessions at the inaugural Grassroots-Campaign, Leadership & Activist Survival School hosted by the Waco Tea Party on August 13, 2011.“I am thrilled that Accuracy in Media will be partnering with the Waco Tea Party this year,” Chairman Don Irvine said. “We at AIM have taken it upon ourselves to help...
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Tea Party Express preemptively surrenders gun...
Amplify’d from www.examiner.com“The Tea Party will support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination - - even if that person is former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney,” Fox News reports. “That’s the affirmative word from Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer.”Despite attempts to put on a public face that belies his record (with assistance provided courtesy of NRA management on more than...
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The Founders Were Antiwar
Amplify’d from original.antiwar.comCritics dismiss the Tea Party as simply a Republican Party publicity
campaign rather than a grassroots movement that truly seeks change in
Washington. However, it is impossible to ignore the fact that the Tea
Party did indeed challenge the Republican establishment and defeated
many establishment Republicans in primary elections—which means they
obviously cared...
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2012: The Year Tea Party Divides Will Come Into...
Amplify’d from www.theatlantic.comCase in point: Mitt Romney’s candidacy is already dividing activists, and the sniping has already begun between Tea Party Express and Tea Party Patriots, two groups that have been at odds, on and off, since 2009.“Whoever the Republican nominee is will have to have the support of the Tea Party movement, the entire Tea Party movement,” Tea Party...
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Tea Party 2012 Disagreement?
Amplify’d from politics.blogs.foxnews.comDon’t look to the Tea Party for clarity on who should become the GOP presidential nominee— and whether or not the Tea Party will support any Republican nominee— including former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.It all depends on which of the major Tea Party groups you ask.Mark Meckler, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots— the...
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GOP Can't Take Anything for Granted In 2012...
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comhese developments, far more than the special election in upstate New York last month contain a sobering message for Republican leaders: You’d better pick a winner if you want to evict Barack Obama from the White House next year.Romney, Pawlenty and Huntsman know that former governors usually make the best and most successful presidents. Four out of Obama’s five...
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GOP candidates in the Tea Party crosshairs
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comOrrin Hatch is conservative by almost any measure, but these days that’s not enough to shield him from the right. There’s a credible challenger in the wings and a real possibility that the Utah senator could become the first establishment casualty of the 2012 season.The Tea Party movement first demonstrated its clout last year by knocking off Hatch’s Utah colleague,...
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Herman Cain: Tea Party racism claims are...
Amplify’d from www.cbsnews.comRepublican presidential candidate Herman Cain told Hotsheet Wednesday that racist accusations about the movement are “ridiculous.” “I have been speaking to Tea Parties, Americans for Prosperity, since 2009, before it was cool,” Cain said, before pointing to victories in recent straw polls. “…If the Tea Party organization is racist,...
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George Allen signs tea party-driven 'Contract from...
Amplify’d from www2.godanriver.comGeorge Allen is the first U.S. Senate candidate in Virginia to sign the “Contract from America.” The Contract From America Foundation calls the document “a Main Street, tea party-driven legislative blueprint for 2011 and beyond.” The main tenets of the document include protecting the Constitution, rejecting Cap and Trade legislation, enacting “fundamental tax...
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Tea Party tussle hits a boil
Amplify’d from blog.seattlepi.comAfter running Mike Huckabee’s 2008 campaign, veteran Republican strategist Ed Rollins has signed on with Rep. Michele Bachmann and argues that Bachmann – not Sarah Palin – is the Tea Party’s true champion.Bachmann, founder of Congress’ Tea Party Caucus, is slated to announce her candidacy this month in Waterloo, Iowa. Palin upstaged the GOP field last week with a...
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Tea Party's Role in 2012? →
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Five candidates sign on for Iowa tea party bus...
Amplify’d from caucuses.desmoinesregister.comFive Republican presidential hopefuls have signed on for the Iowa Tea Party Bus Tour this summer: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson and Rick Santorum.The three-week bus tour, the first in Iowa for the tea party movement, will make stops in 20 cities starting June 13 in Council Bluffs.It’s also meant to push tea party...
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Teacher Forces State Rep’s 8-Year-Old to Lobby Her...
Amplify’d from www.carolinajournal.comFreshman Republican lawmaker Mike Stone says his daughter was “used against” him when a public school teacher instructed her and her classmates to contact elected officials in opposition to budget cuts.The result: a hand-written note imploring Stone to “put the buget (sic) higher dad” so that her school wouldn’t have to forgo field trips, be unprepared for...
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The Republican Party may not be ready to take on...
Amplify’d from www.slate.comDemocrats have convinced themselves that Republicans blundered mightily by voting for Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget, with its radical reforms of Medicare and Medicaid. Republicans aren’t sure yet. The hardest of the GOP’s hardcore activists have another take: The GOP did exactly the right thing. Now’s the time to tell voters that entitlements have to...
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Tea Party leader promises organization will...
Amplify’d from www.examiner.comWhile the Tea Party has long maintained that they are a completely separate movement, critics have accused the Tea Party of merely being a subpart or rebranding of the Republican Party. The critics seemed to have gained some evidence over the weekend. Fox News reports that Amy Kremer, the chair of the Tea Party Express, promised that the “entire Tea Party movement”...
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Conservative group doesn't want Romney
Amplify’d from www.onenewsnow.comA tea party group has launched a “Stop Romney” campaign too keep the newly announced candidate out of the race and away from helping Obama hold his current position.The Western Representation PAC wants to prevent former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney from securing the 2012 Republican nomination. On issues like gun rights, homosexual rights,...
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Where’s The Tea Party?
Amplify’d from blogs.ajc.comBut of the 87 Republican freshmen who entered Congress after winning in the November 2010 elections, only four of them brought an amendment to the House floor on the homeland security budget bill, and really only one of them was truly budget related:Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) offered a 10% across the board cut; it won only 110 votes Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) offered...
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Cain presidential campaign gains momentum
Amplify’d from dailycaller.comHerman Cain’s presidential campaign is picking up steam as voters learn more about him, the New York Times reports.Cain, the radio talking head and former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, has long been a Tea Party favorite. But his appeal in recent months has been spreading to mainstream Republicans. His name recognition, despite being at a fairly low 37 percent,...
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A Tea Party Plan to Put ‘Big Government’ on a Diet
Amplify’d from isurfhopkins.com “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size,” said President Ronald Reagan.
And taxpayers in Kenton County in Northern Kentucky are about to find out: no bloated government agency goes down without a fight, either.
But if the Northern Kentucky Tea Party prevails, the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission faces significant weight loss. Tea...
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Rep. Mary Bono Mack veers right as tea party makes...
Amplify’d from www.mydesert.comAs the Republican Party shifts further to the right, it is exerting increasing pressure on Rep. Mary Bono Mack to embrace the values of the tea party movement, potentially putting her at odds with large swaths of her constituency.In recent months, the self-described moderate has endorsed bills that would scale back Medicare and Medicaid, make it more difficult to...
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Tea Party to Back Any GOP Nominee - Including...
Amplify’d from politics.blogs.foxnews.comThe Tea Party will support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination - - even if that person is former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. That’s the affirmative word from Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer.Kremer told Fox News on Saturday, “whoever the Republican nominee is will have to have the support of the Tea Party movement, the entire...
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Primary fit to a Tea
Amplify’d from www.lasvegassun.comRepublicans will have difficulty fielding a presidential nominee in the next year, and it’s not just because it will take a score card to keep all of the candidates straight. The issue for Republicans will be whether they field a candidate with a pure conservative record or one who can get elected.South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, a harsh Obama critic and Tea Party...
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Tea Party Patriot exposes the US Government plan...
Amplify’d from www.your-story.orgA Fort Worth writer has produced a political read, that directly compares the trends in America to that of Oceania in Orwell’s 1984. Originally intended to be released on election day 2010; printing issues delayed the release until spring 2011.Fort Worth, Texas : Andrew Curtiss commented, “The truth isn’t supposed to hurt, but it sometimes does. If you can’t...
