August 2011
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FreedomWorks to Hold First Tea Party Debt...
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WHAT: FreedomWorks will host the first field hearing for the
newly-formed Tea Party Debt Commission in Salt Lake City. Local
activists are expected to attend, and encouraged to bring their own
proposals for specific cuts to the federal budget. FreedomWorks will
also present the initial findings of its online poll (...
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Marx’s Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.amconmag.comLast summer Angelo Codevilla’s American Spectator essay “America’s Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution” made waves in conservative circles for its compelling treatment of the minority ruling class (the political elite and its partisans) versus the “country class” (the rest of us). It was a sophisticated exposition but also broke down the class conflict in...
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Tea Party takes its sideshow on the road
Amplify’d from www.capitolhillblue.comWith the Republican campaign for the White House taking shape, hundreds of Tea Party activists kicked off a national bus tour on Saturday, aiming to rally their base and new recruits to the conservative political cause.As supporters waved American flags and carried signs that read, “I’ll keep my money, guns and freedom, you keep the change,” organizers said...
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At the Georgia Capitol, state tea party influence...
Amplify’d from www.therepublic.comIt was supposed to be a simple vote amid the work of redistricting: change the date of when voters would consider a proposed transportation tax from the July primary to November general election.Enter the Georgia tea party and suddenly the vote was not so simple. After the tea party came out against the move, support among Republicans crumbled and the governor and...
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The rise of the New Nullifiers
Amplify’d from www.thestate.com A century after John C. Calhoun embraced the idea of Nullification — that a state could declare null and void a federal action — South Carolina’s Democratic leaders embraced the idea again, to oppose integration. Today, a new breed of S.C. politicians — libertarian Republicans — are playing leading roles in the national debate over states’ rights and the proper...
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'Joe The Plumber' Might Become 'Joe The...
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Is Joe the Plumber going to become Joe the Congressman‘Joe The Plumber’ is the famous Toledo, Ohio man who got candidate Barack Obama to admit that he wants to take money from the rich and “spread the wealth around.” The Youtube video of Samuel Joesph Wurzelbacher asking him about the democrat’s crippling small businesses polices...
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Ron Paul pulling past Michele Bachmann in polls,...
Amplify’d from www.winnipegfreepress.comWASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul says he’s the Rodney Dangerfield of U.S. politics, griping recently that he gets no respect from the media in terms of coverage even after finishing a close second to Michele Bachmann in the often game-changing Iowa straw poll.The media, Paul said at the time, “is frightened by me challenging...
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Tea party pushes back against Cal congresswoman
Amplify’d from www.sacbee.com Tea Party leaders Tuesday faulted Democrats for failing to police their own ranks, after a California congresswoman told a cheering audience that the conservative movement should “go straight to hell.”Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots - the nation’s largest tea party organization - said in a statement that President...
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RNC chairman thinks Ron Paul has gotten 'fair...
Amplify’d from thehill.comRep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) presidential campaign is getting a “fair shake,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday.Preibus suggested that Paul, the libertarian-minded GOP candidate for president, is being treated fairly enough by the media, despite his campaign’s protests that Paul isn’t receiving the same...
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Kansas Republican Party Embraces Tea Party →
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Pataki, Giuliani looks to enter GOP primary race;...
Amplify’d from www.knickledger.comFormer N.Y. Governor George E. Pataki and former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani are looking at entering the GOP presidential primary race as some potential candidates such as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) have declined speculation.Pataki, 66, and Giuliani, 67, are seen to the left of a Republican Party that has moved toward the right more so in the past two...
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Tea party talking sense, to which Democrats won't...
Amplify’d from www.tcpalm.comOne lie worth addressing is that the tea party is responsible for the downgrade in the nation’s credit rating. Two-thirds of our government is controlled by Democrats. They were well aware that they had to cut $4 trillion in the budget or the downgrade was going to happen. They chose to block “Cut, Cap, & Balance,” which was the first legislation...
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Ron Paul Crushes the Field in New Hampshire Straw...
Amplify’d from www.sunshinestatenews.com“Ron Paul’s message of traditional conservatism — fiscal restraint, limited government, and strong national defense — is clearly the future of the Republican Party,” said state Sen. Jim Forsythe, Paul’s New Hampshire chairman who spoke at the event. “The other candidates know that and sound more like him every day. But there are convenient...
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Perry vs. Paul: 2 very different Texans want same...
Amplify’d from www.chron.com“Ron Paul could haunt Gov. Perry down the road,” said Scala. “He seems very enthusiastic about needling his fellow Texan already. I could imagine him goading Perry in a nationally televised debate.”Paul has good reason to engage with Perry. They are both seeking to win votes from the tea party wing of the Republican Party, which represents a...
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Newly formed Jewish Tea Party of N.Y. plans first...
Amplify’d from www.silive.comThe newly established Jewish Tea Party of New York will hold its first official event Wednesday, a Staten Island Stands With Israel event co-hosted by the Staten Island Tea Party. Staten Island Tea Party co-organizer Frank Santarpia said he plans to work closely with the new group. “While we don’t want to see groups split into a million special-interest...
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Watch out incumbents and Mitt Romney: Tea party is...
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comTea party involvement in the 2012 election:Meckler: “2012 is going to be extraordinarily different…. The biggest difference … is [tea partyers] are going to be dramatically engaged in the primaries on both sides of the aisle.”The targeting of congressional incumbents:Meckler: “We actually have a two-party political system. It is called...
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Don't blame tea party for the U.S. debt crisis
Amplify’d from www.dailyworld.comContrary to what you and others in the liberal news media portray, we commoners know that this debt crisis and credit downgrade was not created by anything tea party members in Congress did. The simple truth is years of previous deficit spending coupled with recent huge increases of additional deficit spending have created this problem. And we, as well as Standard...
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The Tea Party’s bold plans to eliminate the debt...
Amplify’d from blog.seattlepi.comLast week I shared with you some bold new initiatives planned by America’s leading Tea Party politicians to wipe out the entire US Debt before the end of the year. Think of it as a gigantic Christmas present to America from the Tea Party (so long as you’re not elderly, disabled, poor, a member of a labor union, Muslim or, worse yet, gay).You can read last week’s...
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They fear the TEA Party Hobbits
Amplify’d from canadafreepress.comOn Tuesday the New York Times published an Op Ed titled “Crashing the Tea Party”. This rambling piece of gibberish was penned by elitist members of the realm of Academia; the same vaunted institutions that spawned the Dark Lord and his minions now attempting to force their Marxist ideology on the Hobbits of the Shire.
The professors, Campbell and Putnam, begin...
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Blushes As Tea Party Star Walks Out On Morgan
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A star of the US Tea Party movement has defended herself after walking off Piers Morgan’s television show as he quizzed her about gay marriages.
Christine O’Donnell is known for her radical views and Morgan was asking her about homosexual marriages, which she discusses in her new book, Troublemaker.She looked uncomfortable straight away and suggested...
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Pa. Senator On Deficit Panel A Tea Party Favorite
Amplify’d from www.npr.orgPa. Senator On Deficit Panel A Tea Party FavoriteThe legislation that finally resolved the debt-ceiling debate earlier this summer also created a panel of 12 lawmakers charged with finding more than $1 trillion in cuts to the federal deficit.The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, dubbed the “supercommittee,” has a big job to finish by a Thanksgiving...
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Tea Party Activist Who Gets in Obama's Face...
Amplify’d from www.hollywoodreporter.comTea Party Activist Who Gets in Obama’s Face Becomes Media Sensation
Reminiscent of Joe the Plumber three years ago, the video of a Tea Party activist in Iowa who challenged President Obama on civility and financial policy has gone viral, making him an instant media commodity.
With an assist from Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh, 29-year-old conservative...
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France and Germany support Tea Party? →
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France and Germany support Tea Party? →
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Kansas Republican Party Embraces Tea Party →
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Are the media scared of Ron Paul?
Amplify’d from www.csmonitor.comAre the media scared of Ron Paul? The Texas congressman and GOP presidential candidate believes they are. In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Representative Paul ticked off the reasons that reporters should list him in the top tier of Republican wannabes. Paul noted that he did well in the Iowa straw poll, has a strong organization, and can raise money. But...
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Another Tea Party Challenger for Casey
Amplify’d from www.politicspa.comRepublican party officials have yet to coalesce around a challenger to Senator Bob Casey, but Pennsylvania’s Tea Party activists aren’t going to wait.A new name has surfaced in the hunt for the GOP nomination: Tom Smith, Chairman of the Indiana-Armstrong Patriots. The coal industry veteran said he will formally announce his candidacy after Labor Day, and says that...
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THE TEA PARTY WAS RIGHT
Amplify’d from etherzone.comIt turns out that all those slack-jawed, gun-toting, Bible-thumping, violent, racist,
flyover-country, would-be terrorists - who insist upon calling themselves patriots in
spite of the vicious, defamatory insults hurled at them every day - knew one thing that
all the Harvard-educated elitists on Pennsylvania Avenue didn’t…...
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Hatch’s had enough from groups tied to tea party
Amplify’d from www.sltrib.com Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch and his campaign team have heard enough from their most vocal critics and are fighting back, lambasting the leaders of FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth as hypocrites and political has-beens struggling to remain relevant. Their latest jabs focus on the debt-limit debate that consumed Washington in recent weeks. FreedomWorks created...
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Obama confronted after town hall by tea-party...
Amplify’d from www.latimes.comAn Iowa tea-party activist, Ryan Rhodes, confronted Obama after the event to speak to him whether Vice President Biden during the debt-ceiling talks in Washington compared tea-party affiliated lawmakers to terrorists.Rhodes first brought up the question during the town hall and then approached the president afterward and the two got into a heated exchange. (Watch...
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Tea party members not thrilled with West
Amplify’d from floridaindependent.comRep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, who faces a tough reelection bid in 2012, is being forced to explain to his tea party supporters why he voted to support the Budget Control Act, which raised the federal government’s debt ceiling. #Read more at floridaindependent.comThe bombardment directed at the freshman Republican congressman from Broward and Palm Beach...
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Tea Party's polite example is too scary
Amplify’d from www.stargazette.comTheir barbaric behavior was unsettling. They had an uncivilized code of conduct, requiring no swearing and consideration of others and their opinions. A person had to raise her hand to be recognized to address the meeting. Courtesy, consideration and politeness were encouraged. It was so outrageous, I could hardly tolerate their abusive behavior.One of their goals...
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Rep. Allen West to face angry tea partiers Read...
Amplify’d from www.politico.comAfter saying that the tea party movement has “schizophrenia” in its views on the deficit, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) is set to get on earful Monday evening from onetime supporters disappointed by his vote to raise the debt ceiling earlier this month.
All 300 tickets for West’s early evening appearance at a meeting of the Palm Beach County Tea Party sold out quickly,...
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Hennen: Tea Party Changing the Game in the 2012...
Amplify’d from plainsdaily.comPresident and CEO of Freedom Force Communications and author of Grassroots: A Common Sense Action Agenda for America, Hennen appeared this morning on Fox and Friends to share his insights on the Tea Party movement and the 2012 election.“The Tea Party mission now is to ultimately hold the Republican Party accountable, get them to buck up, and folks are joining us all...
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Tea Party Fraud Rick Perry is Political Herpes
Amplify’d from www.stuffedsuits.comNote: Since Gov. Rick Perry(TX) declined to participate in the Iowa Straw Poll and debate events and instead wants to attempt to steal their thunder by announcing Saturday (Aug. 13, 2011) in Charleston, SC that his eminence is running for President, it’s only right to hear from another Texan. Robert Morrow appears to have found some remarkable resemblances...
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The Tea Party Was the Big Winner of the GOP...
Amplify’d from www.sacbee.comRichard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, issued the following statement regarding the Republican presidential debate in Ames, Iowa:“The Tea Party was the big winner of the GOP presidential debate.“All eight of the Republican candidates who appeared on the stage at the Ames, Iowa debate sounded like charter members of the Tea Party.
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Obama’s Popularity Plummets In New York
Amplify’d from blog.timesunion.comPresident Barack Obama was in New York last night, raising cash for his re-election amongst such bold-face names Gwyneth Paltrow, Alicia Keys and Jimmy Fallon. But if Obama ventured outside the comfortable West Village home of Harvey Weinstein, he would have discovered a much different reception.A new poll out by Quinnpiac University today finds that more New...
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Local Tea Party Patriots protest in Oneida →
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Now is not a good time to link with Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.northjersey.comGarrett is a Republican congressman who voted against the compromise because the spending cuts were too small and because the deal didn’t include a plan for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution — an idea ridiculed by John McCain as a delusion of “Tea Party Hobbits.”Garrett espoused Tea Party principles before Sarah Palin took a seat on...
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Final two recall elections could lead to state’s...
Amplify’d from host.madison.comWednesday morning, just hours after state Republicans learned
they had retained control of the state Senate by defeating four of
the six Democratic challengers in the state’s historic recall
elections, a flurry of activity began in the two remaining Senate
districts up for grabs on Tuesday, Aug. 16, the fourth and final
recall election day.“It has been on our minds...
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Tea party is effect, not cause
Amplify’d from www.rep-am.com“The tea-party downgrade”? Are they nuts? Leading lights in the White House and prominent national Democrats blame the tea-party movement for bringing about the downgrade in America’s credit rating by the Standard and Poor’s rating agency from AAA to AA+. The narrative goes like this: The tea party contributed to the gridlock in recent weeks...
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Sen. McCain won’t apologize for ‘Tea Party...
Amplify’d from thehill.com“I am sorry if it was misunderstood. I am not sorry for what I said,” McCain said at a town hall meeting in Gilbert, Ariz.At the time, McCain eviscerated some members of Congress as “foolish” and “deceiving” for believing that refusing to raise the debt ceiling would give Democrats no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment. McCain described that scenario as a...
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Nine of 12 Super Committee Members Named: Tea...
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comSpeaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were next to announce their picks for the committee. Boehner’s included Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the latter of whom will serve as co-chairman of the committee with Senator Murray. McConnell’s Senate picks included Senators Jon...
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Why Are You Attacking The Tea Party Senator... →
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Don’t blame the Tea Party
Amplify’d from opinion.financialpost.comIf you want to point fingers, start with statismWithout that promised growth, the United States will not be able to repay its debts. That’s the reason markets tumbled in recent weeks. Despite attempts by assorted pundits to pin the market collapse on the Tea Party and a haywire ratings downgrade by Standard & Poor’s, the stock markets around the world...
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Tea Party faithful wonder if Rick Perry walks the...
Amplify’d from www.reuters.comRick Perry has been widely touted as a Republican presidential candidate who could appeal Tea Party voters, but some in the anti-tax movement wonder if his record as Texas governor stacks up to his rhetoric.After all, they say, there are reasons to think he’s a spendthrift. He once campaigned for Democrat Al Gore, reviled by the Tea Party for being Bill...
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Summer School Program Teaches Tea Party Values
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.com USA Today reports:During the five-day Vacation Liberty School, talks, skits and activities mixed conservative values and early American history, including stories about how colonists’ prayers once helped turn back a threatening French fleet and the principle of equal opportunity, but not necessarily equal results.There have apparently been a number of...
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The Tea Party is on a winning streak
Amplify’d from dailycaller.comTerrorists, are we? How banal the left’s invective has become. Fiscal responsibility is no doubt a terrifying prospect to the irresponsible spenders and entitlement addicts. But really: In their horror of sobering up, can’t Vice President Joe Biden, Congressman Mike Doyle and The New York Times’s Joe Nocera do better than equate Tea Party patriots with suicide...
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Obama Downgraded, Tea Party Vindicated
Amplify’d from spectator.orgThe Tea Party-dominated Republican House majority already acted
in the spring to completely solve the debt crisis by passing the
Ryan budget, with $6.2 trillion in cuts in the first ten years
alone. Despite President Obama’s unreasoned rhetoric, that budget
was carefully crafted so no one would actually suffer as a result
of those cuts. Sure some people would lose...
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Hang the Tea Party Terrorists or Send them to...
Amplify’d from www.intellectualconservative.comNo matter how hard you try, there is nothing in the debt ceiling bill that cuts over-spending.It strikes the world a bit strange when all the liberal idiots start using the same comments and phrases. It would seem in the world of twitter once a liberal calls the Tea Party folks terrorists, then all the idiots fall in behind in...
