July 2011
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The Tea Party: Round Two!
Amplify’d from www.bctv.orgMy hat goes off to the Tea Party movement.In last two years, conservatives have banded together in an
effort to save our country. The constant left-wing attacks on our
form of government and the Constitution met with little resistance
until the Tea Party patriots organized themselves into a vibrant
political but nonpartisan force.Many of us have marched on Washington two...
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A Tea Party Revolt? →
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Tea Party Senator Rand Paul Stands Firm Against...
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comVAN SUSTEREN: If the Boehner bill as we understand it makes to the Senate, would you vote yes or no?SEN. RAND PAUL: I can’t vote for any plan that doesn’t balance, ever.VAN SUSTEREN: No balanced budget amendment?SEN. RAND PAUL: No, that doesn’t balance. His plan will never balance. In 10, 20 years, there isn’t a significant change in policy...
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Tea Party favorite blasts McCain for 'hobbit'...
Amplify’d from content.usatoday.comRepublican Sharron Angle, backed by Tea Party supporters, was the 2010 Senate nominee in Nevada. CAPTIONBy Ethan Miller, Getty ImagesOne of the Senate nominees singled out by GOP Sen. John McCain during a stinging speech that compared Tea Party supporters to hobbits is responding this morning with a rebuke of her own.Sharron Angle, last year’s GOP Senate...
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Watch live: LG Duffy announces Southern Tier... →
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Super Congress Moves Forward Despite Tea Party...
Amplify’d from www.huffingtonpost.com A powerful coalition that includes Tea Party members of Congress rejected a debt ceiling offer from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday, calling a proposed bipartisan, bicameral committee that would draft deficit-reduction legislation “troubling” — not because it would afford too much power to too few people, but because they said...
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Tea Party Scores Another Victory With Boehner's...
Amplify’d from www.huffingtonpost.comSpeaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will hand another win to the Tea Party on Monday when he rolls out a debt proposal to his conference that features some of conservatives’ prized provisions: spending caps and a balanced budget amendment.Boehner will pitch his latest plan, and possibly his final offering, to House Republicans during a closed meeting at 2 p.m....
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‘The Tea Party, Right About Everything’
Amplify’d from blog.chron.comYes, the media and the left tried to paint the Tea Party as racist, uneducated, and wrong. But that was what they wanted it to be. They wanted to discredit it because they knew how powerful it could be. It turns out it wasn’t racist. In fact, many of the big speakers at the big Tea Party gatherings (and the smaller ones) were black and Hispanic and were cheered and...
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Meet Rick Perry, the Teastablishment Candidate
Amplify’d from www.frumforum.comMeet Rick Perry, tea party activist . He’s the guy who signed the cut, cap, and balance pledge, suggested that Texas could end up seceding from a big-government Union, and scorns the existance of “163,000 pages of federal regulations” and a “9 million word” tax code.Meet Rick Perry, three-term governor of Texas. He’s the governor who signed a tough tort...
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The Tea Party, Right About Everything
Amplify’d from www.americanthinker.comThe false narrative is that the Tea Party is a bunch of stubborn nuts, if not outright racists. In truth, the Tea Party has been right about everything, while almost everyone else has been nuts, especially the “experts.”At every point, the Tea Party and its sympathizers tried to stop these idiocies, only to be called ignorant racists. You might...
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Tea Party Members Size Up Herman Cain
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Herman Cain, a successful business executive, is one of the many candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Cain has never held elected office but during an appearance in Dover, it was claer that Cain was making inroads with the sort of anti-Washington voters who shaped the last election.
When Herman Cain spoke at the Hellenic Center hall, he joked...
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O'Reilly vs. Ingraham on the Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comThis is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” July 21, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.Read more at www.foxnews.com See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a19fbg
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Long Island malaise launches glory era for local...
Amplify’d from www.capitalnewyork.comStephen Flanagan, a gravelly-voiced Tea Party activist, spent most of May and June in the back room of a dilapidated Long Island office complex lobbying for Andrew Cuomo’s property-tax cap, which finally passed as part of Albany’s big budget package.The tax cap was overshadowed in the media by the concurrent passage of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New...
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Debt Ceiling Debate Casts Uncertainty Over Muni...
Amplify’d from nymuniblog.comThe ongoing debate over raising the federal debt ceiling is beginning to have spillover effects in the municipal bond market.On Tuesday, Moody’s Investors Service announced that five U.S. states with triple-A credit ratings will be reviewed for a downgrade due to their respective economies’ dependence on payment of U.S. government debt. For example, two states being...
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Default Now, or Suffer a More Expensive Crisis...
Amplify’d from www.bloomberg.comDebate over the debt ceiling has
reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, with each side trying to
outdo the other in a game of political chicken. If you
believe some of the things that are being written, the world
will come to an end if the U.S. defaults on even the tiniest
portion of its debt. In strict terms, the default being discussed will occur if
the U.S. fails...
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Sen. Harkin: "Cult Fringe" Holding Up Debt Ceiling...
Amplify’d from www.realclearpolitics.comSen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) calls Republicans “dead-beat debtors” among other things during a Democratic press conference on Wednesday morning.
“The debate and fight is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s between some Republicans and their sort of cult fringe as I refer to them out there,” Harkin said.
“Democrats...
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Tea Party Caucus’ First Tax Increase
Amplify’d from digg.com The Republican congressmen and women who were elected under the Tea Party flag and their leader, Michele Bachman, have instituted their first tax increase. This tax is an example of the law of unintended consequences. By not authorizing spending, in the name of cutting Rooseveltian entitlements, the Republican controlled House of Representatives and its controlling...
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Perry has troubled relationship with tea
Amplify’d from www.syracuse.comIn spite of his thundering speeches against big government, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a troubled relationship with the tea party, a rift increasingly obvious as he gets closer to a presidential bid.Tea party groups from New Hampshire to Texas are collaborating to criticize Perry’s record on immigration, public health and spending and his former affiliation with...
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Where Does Tea Party Stand on Debt Plan? →
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No tea party for Perry as he weighs nomination bid
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry is facing intensifying attacks from the tea party movement.
Perry was an early tea party supporter, but some conservative activists have turned sour as he moves closer to launching a...
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Can Tea Party Fix National Debt? →
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Ron Paul Talks Debt Ceiling, Warns of ‘Rough...
Amplify’d from www.thestatecolumn.comThis week, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), an official candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, warned of “rough economic times” if President Obama and Congress can’t cut federal spending and balance the budget. Paul’s weekly Texas Straight Talk column, entitled “Debt Ceiling Drama,” arrives on scene during a crucial moment in the debt ceiling debate;...
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'Cut, Cap and Balance' Plan from Tea Party →
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Whither the Tea Party?
Amplify’d from spectator.orgFollowing the Tax Day tea party rallies this past April, people
began wondering if the Tea Party movement had peaked: the number of
rallies was down, and the crowd sizes were in many places a
fraction of what they’d been in 2009. Of course, since April 16,
2009, the left has been predicting the demise of the Tea Party
movement, more believing its own press clippings...
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Tea Party Debt Plan Takes Center Stage
Amplify’d from www.time.comThe next step in the weeks-long saga over how to increase the government’s borrowing cap is to let House tea party forces try it their way.A Republican “cut, cap and balance” plan set for a House vote Tuesday would condition a $2.4 trillion increase in the so-called debt limit on an immediate $100 billion-plus cut from next year’s budget and...
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Obama could stir a Tea Party crisis
Amplify’d from www.atimes.comPresident Barack Obama’s best hope of
re-election lies in provoking Republicans to force
the United States into technical default,
engineering a brief but severe financial crisis in
order to appear as crisis-manager-in-chief. The
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Tea party takes its turn in debt battle
Amplify’d from www.google.comCongressional leaders are giving tea party-backed Republican freshmen the run of the House this week with a plan to let the government borrow another $2.4 trillion — but only after big and immediate spending cuts and adoption by Congress of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget.This “cut, cap and balance” plan is set to pass the...
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Can the Tea Party gain an edge?
Amplify’d from articles.ocregister.com Can the Tea Party anti-tax activists overcome last year’s dismal showing in California? Will it be the state’s “Scott Brown” moment? These are the questions in today’s run-off election for the 36th U.S. Congressional District, which covers much of southwestern Los Angeles County along the coast. Los Angeles City Councilwoman...
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Tea Party Congressman Asks Cokie Roberts: Why Does...
Amplify’d from www.newsbusters.orgWhen she asked Congressman Raul Labrador (R-Id.) why compromise isn’t a “message that you hear,” the Tea Partier responded, “Why is it that compromise always means increasing taxes today and doing cuts in ten years from now?” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
LABRADOR: Why is it that compromise always means increasing...
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Carl Paladino Alleges Corruption in the Buffalo...
Amplify’d from www.eliteemail.comPlease accept this letter as my complaint against the subject administrators of the Buffalo Public School District (BPSD) and Florence Johnson, Buffalo Public School Board Member for investigation of possible criminality. I enclose for your reference a copy of a letter (Exh.A) that I forwarded to the Grievance Committee of the Erie County Bar Association concerning...
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Tea Party Zealots Scare McConnell Straight On Debt...
Amplify’d from blogs.forbes.comLet me see if I have this right: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has effectively embraced the debt limit plan first offered months ago by President Obama. Under the McConnell/Obama scenario, Congress would extend the government’s borrowing authority through next year without agreeing to a dime’s worth of spending reductions or tax increases.As the...
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NH tea party group goes after Perry
Amplify’d from www.statesman.comGov. Rick Perry has enjoyed support from many in the Texas tea party movement, but he recently received a chillier reception in New Hampshire, home of the nation’s first presidential primary.The New Hampshire Tea Party Coalition, an organization of 47 like-minded groups, has published a blog post that criticizes Perry over a number of issues, including his support...
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Reid Calls Tea Party Philosophy 'a Bunch of...
Amplify’d from nation.foxnews.com“I’ve been to a few court houses,” Reid said at a news conference on Thursday. Those in the tea party “seem to think they have an all knowing wisdom about the Constitution. In short, that’s a bunch of garbage. I don’t know how to say it more clearer than that.”McConnell’s plan, unveiled this week, would essentially hand President Barack Obama power to raise the...
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Tea Party group to host first Twitter presidential...
Amplify’d from thehill.comA Tea Party organization is hosting the fist presidential debate solely Through Twitter on July 20. The debate will feature top Republican presidential candidates responding directly and in real time to questions sent in through Twitter. The 90-minute event will unfold at 140Townhall.com between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. EDT and is hosted by TheTeaParty.net. Confirmed...
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Accuracy in Media to Attend Waco TEA Party...
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.“The Waco Tea Party is excited to have Mr. Churchwell and Mr. Irvine from Accuracy in Media as instructors at our August 13th ‘Grassroots Survival School’” said Toby...
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David Brooks vs. hillbilly tea partiers
Amplify’d from www.wnd.comA recent offering from syndicated columnist David Brooks, the “conservative” voice of the New York Times, is a prime example of the Ruling Class mindset that gave rise to the tea-party movement. His column, “No compromises: Fanatics take over the Republican Party,” appeared in my local paper (the Greensboro, N.C., News & Record) on July 6.
I...
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Can a Tea Party Republican Win a House Race in Los...
Amplify’d from www.theatlantic.comIn California’s 36th Congressional District, where I often ride my bicycle alongside the ocean, a Tuesday special election pits a liberal Los Angeles city councilwoman, Democrat Janice Hahn, against a tea-party-backed businessman, Republican Craig Huey. If the typical residents of the communities they’re vying to represent paid more attention to...
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Tea Party groups target lawmakers on debt
Amplify’d from tucsoncitizen.com Tea Party groups want to turn the upcoming debt limit vote into a repeat of the health care town-hall-style forums of the summer of 2009, packing district offices and community meetings in targeted congressional districts.Tea Party activists will be going after 21 Democrats — mostly moderate-to-conservative members in swing districts, organizers say. They also said...
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Paul tries to reap Tea Party seeds he helped...
Amplify’d from www.boston.comFour years ago, Ron Paul’s libertarian views became divining rods for the brand of strident antigovernment activism that grew into the Tea Party movement. Now the Texas congressman is trying to make sure the energy of that phenomenon does not bypass his presidential candidacy.Paul’s prescription for America has been consistent for three decades: shrink the federal...
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Tea Party groups target lawmakers on debt
Amplify’d from tucsoncitizen.com Tea Party groups want to turn the upcoming debt limit vote into a repeat of the health care town-hall-style forums of the summer of 2009, packing district offices and community meetings in targeted congressional districts.Tea Party activists will be going after 21 Democrats — mostly moderate-to-conservative members in swing districts, organizers say. They also said...
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Tea party proves to be no flash in the pan
Amplify’d from www.thesunchronicle.comWhen the tea party hit the political scene in summer 2009, characterized by loud outbursts at town hall meetings and the anger expressed by members, it was easy for many to dismiss the movement as a flash in the pan, something that would burn out as quickly as it sparked.But now, some two years later, tea party organizations are still alive and kicking, even...
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Tea Party to launch ‘Vacation Liberty School’
Amplify’d from michiganmessenger.comHeather A. McLeod is the the local party’s education coordinator and feels that the program will shield kids from the “progressive agenda.” “People of any faith would be comfortable with what we talk about here,” she said. “We talk about God; we don’t talk about Jesus. … We aren’t pushing one party.
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“To me, it was important to combat some of the liberal...
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Obama chastises tea party members for holding firm...
Amplify’d from www.greeleygazette.comThe president chastised tea party members for not wanting to raise taxes or raise the debt limit saying candidates were “rewarded for saying irresponsible things.”This morning, the president held a press conference to address the breakdown in budget negotiations. Late Saturday evening, house speaker, John Boehner, announced he was pulling out of...
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The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs - A love story
Amplify’d from www.pasadenastarnews.comThe whole point of the tea party is to focus concern over our stagnant economy on something called “big government” while ignoring the big corporations that have bought the government as an accessory to their marketing strategies. Big government is big precisely because it now exists primarily to make the world safe for multinational capitalism,...
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Perry Watch: Rick Perry has stiff competition for...
Amplify’d from blog.chron.comPolitician/ Issue
Rick Perry
Michele Bachmann
Ron Paul
Herman Cain
Immigration
Though he made banning “sanctuary cities” a priority for the Texas state legislature, Perry has said Arizona’s tough immigration policy “would not be the right direction for Texas.”
Bachmann is a supporter of Arizona’s immigration policy.
Paul opposes amnesty and wants to end birthright...
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Trials of the Tea Party
Amplify’d from spectator.orgThe New York Times is rolling out the big guns against
Michelle Bachmann as her campaign starts to gain traction. Recently
columnist Timothy Egan took the lead in what is fast becoming the
default argument: “Michelle Bachmann and her family take government
money!” Furrowing his brow, Egan writes:
But what is more troubling [than Bachmann’s insistence...
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Tea Partiers show mixed views on foreign policy
Amplify’d from www.aim.orgTea Party movement-backed lawmakers have marched in lockstep toward the goal of shrinking the government but that unity dissolves when it comes to America’s role in the world.Republicans who were elected to Congress with support of the grassroots movement have bucked Republican orthodoxy by supporting some defense spending cuts, and they have been at the forefront of...
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Tea Party's Voice Booms Over Debt Talks
Amplify’d from www.npr.orgFighting deficits is a core belief of the Tea Party, which emerged as a significant force in the 2010 midterm elections, especially in the Republican Party. Host Scott Simon talks with New York Times reporter Kate Zernike about the Tea Party’s influence on the deficit and debt ceiling talks, as well as the resulting impact on the GOP.
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Redistricting Squeezes G.O.P. Class of 2010
Amplify’d from www.nytimes.comJoe Walsh and Judy Biggert are members of a beleaguered species: Hermit Crab Republicans.They are being forced to abandon their political homes — just as the crab that outgrows its shell must seek a new one. In fighting a Democratic-controlled redistricting plan, they join other Illinois Republican members of Congress in an unavoidable but still unseemly tale of your...
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Angry Tea Party Stirring up GOP Revolt
Amplify’d from www.newsmax.comA significant faction of the tea party movement is prepared to revolt against any GOP deal to raise the debt ceiling – even if it is “revenue neutral” and cuts trillions from federal spending, grass-roots sources tell Newsmax.For the most part, tea party leaders have coalesced around the “cut, cap, and balance” approach to raising the debt ceiling: Trillions in real...
