November 2011
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Why I'm Thankful for the Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comThis year, we should also give thanks for the Tea Party. The Tea Party movement has changed the course of our nation. The legions of middle class Americans that started out protesting the bank bailouts raised the curtain on our nation’s fiscal incontinence – spotlighting our escalating debts and the careless spending of our elected officials. As a consequence,...
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Left-wing organizing kingpin: Tea partiers...
Amplify’d from dailycaller.comAssociation of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder and Service Employees International Union organizer Wade Rathke acknowledged that the tea party movement has been more effective than Occupy Wall Street in influencing American politics.Rathke was unequivocal about the Occupy movement, telling The DC that “in no way has it had the political impact...
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Ron Paul Reaps Big Donations From Federal Workers...
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comNov. 22 (Bloomberg) — Ron Paul, the U.S. presidential candidate who says he’ll shrink government the most, is attracting more campaign donations than any of his Republican rivals from both U.S. government workers and employees of the biggest federal contractors. Megan Hughes reports on Bloomberg Television’s “Bottom Line.” Mark...
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Conservative groups dance on the supercommittee’s...
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Tea Party Express Rally in Manchester, N.H.
(Associated Press)
“The media — ” Bozell stopped himself, perhaps recalling that only members of the press were attending the event. “Some of the media and the White House want you to believe the supercommittee ‘failed,’ but in a very real way that is untrue. The death of any negotiations that would...
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Tea party, Occupy movement vastly different
Amplify’d from www.mcall.comMany in the media and some well-known politicians have characterized those demonstrating against Wall Street and big business as a spontaneous grass-roots movement similar in purpose to the tea party. Well, nothing could be further from the truth.Let’s start with the important differences.The tea party movement is universally consistent in its emphasis on the...
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Twin Tier Tea Party: "We're Not Causing a Riot"
Amplify’d from www.wetmtv.comCorning, NY— Members of the “Twin Tier Tea Party” march outside of Congressman Tom Reed’s Corning office, in what they say is a peaceful rally.Organizer Brad Lytle says Tea Party supporters around the country are visiting their local Congressmen to discuss the nation’s issues.One of those issues: The violence erupting from “Occupy”...
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Why Occupy Wall Street Is No Tea Party
Amplify’d from www.americanthinker.comAs the Occupy Wall Street movement attempts to establish a firm foothold in American society, veterans of left-wing organizing, including former Obama administration czar Van Jones, are urging this fledgling movement to run candidates for office, following the Tea Party model of transforming a grassroots movement into a powerful electoral force. After all,...
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'Tea Party Patriots' walk to draw support to block...
Amplify’d from www.redlandsdailyfacts.comThe `Redlands Tea Party Patriots’ walked door-to-door attempting to gain support to reject the California Dream Act approved by Gov. Jerry Brown last month.
Beginning in 2013, the Dream Act will allow eligible undocumented immigrants be accepted into state public universities and will have access to the same financial aid as U.S. residents...
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Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party have similarities
Amplify’d from www.democratandchronicle.comFed up with a status quo they see as rigged against the average American, a group of protesters took to the streets.That was the scene in 2009, when the Tea Party came to national prominence. And that has been the scene again in recent weeks in cities across the nation with the growth of the Occupy movement.Both are populist movements, though from...
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Tea Party Numbers Grow As Presidential Election...
Amplify’d from canadafreepress.comDespite being demonized by the Democrat Party and minimized by liberal media, the Tea Party movement has not declined since its inception. It has instead increased in numbers. Over the last year, I have visited more than 50 cities in the state of Kansas. As unemployment numbers have increased, so has interest in the Tea Party. With each edict issued from Obama’s...
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A Test for the Tea Party in Texas Senate Race
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RICHLAND HILLS, Tex. — The National Review cover proclaimed him “the great conservative hope.” George Will declared him “as good as it gets.” Influential conservatives endorsed him and gave him speaking slots alongside presidential candidates at national gatherings, where the crowds rewarded him with standing ovations.
Two years ago, all this...
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Tea party ally to run for governor
Amplify’d from www.signonsandiego.comA news conference called by local Tea Party leaders to criticize violence at Occupy San Diego and similar protests nationwide got members of the two movements talking civilly to each other at Civic Center Plaza.Nine representatives of the local Tea Party movement held their news conference near the Occupy encampment Tuesday afternoon, one week after an...
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Tea Party criticizes, congratulates Occupy SD
Amplify’d from www.signonsandiego.comA news conference called by local Tea Party leaders to criticize violence at Occupy San Diego and similar protests nationwide got members of the two movements talking civilly to each other at Civic Center Plaza.Nine representatives of the local Tea Party movement held their news conference near the Occupy encampment Tuesday afternoon, one week after an...
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Tea Party Debt Commission Lockout Follow-Up
Amplify’d from www.humanevents.comYesterday the Tea Party Debt Commission, a crowd-sourced deficit reduction panel hosted by FreedomWorks, ran into a bit of trouble. It was meant to run parallel to the bipartisan deficit “Super Committee” and thereby embarrass the heck out of them. Unfortunately, they were booted from the Russell Office Building of the Senate, on the grounds that security was...
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Tea party activists remain wary of Romney
Amplify’d from www.latimes.comMany tea party followers are put off by Romney’s close ties to the world of Wall Street and support for the George W. Bush administration’s bailout of the financial sector.Mark Meckler, a national co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, said that some in the movement are talking about supporting a third-party candidate if Romney becomes the GOP nominee....
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Tea party groups push Republicans not to accept...
Amplify’d from politicalticker.blogs.cnn.comSeveral tea party-aligned groups are pushing Republican members of Congress not to support tax increases as a congressional super committee tries to come up with a proposal to cut at least $1.2 billion from the nation’s debt.Republicans serving on the committee that is charged with cutting $1.2 trillion in federal spending over 10 years have...
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Tea Party and non-Tea Partiers split over GOP...
Amplify’d from blog.sfgate.comBased on what Comrade Lochhead tells us, we’re guessing that by the time you finish reading this post, there will be another new Republican prez race front-runner. It’s been that challenging tracking the latest GOP flavor of the month, to quote Gov. Palin, in this year’s Baskin-Robbins GOP primary race. Not since 1964, have so many different Republicans led the field...
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Can Newt Gingrich Pass Tea Party Muster?
Amplify’d from www.nationaljournal.comNewt Gingrich doesn’t seem like the tea party’s type. He’s the ultimate Washington insider, a career politician who spent two decades in that reviled institution known as the U.S. Congress. Especially when compared to stick it-to-the-man tea party heroes like Rep. Allen West of Florida and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Gingrich doesn’t seem to fit the part. He...
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Facebook and Google join the Tea Party
Amplify’d from thehill.comGoogle, Facebook and other technology companies are aligning with the Tea Party to defeat copyright legislation championed by movie studios and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Tech companies are seen as the underdog in the lobbying battle over the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would allow the government or copyright holders to obtain court orders to force search engines and...
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Tea Party, Occupy share similar beginnings
Amplify’d from www.usatoday.comWASHINGTON
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After spending months organizing demonstrations, building lists of supporters and helping broadcast the Tea Party message nationwide, Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips organized his last rally on Nov. 7, 2009.It was time, Phillips figured, for the conservative, limited-government movement to stop complaining about the problems they saw and...
