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Tag Archives: Tea Party
Not a Smidgen of Corruption?
Katie Pavlich: Judicial Watch Obtains New Documents Showing IRS Targeting Came Directly From Washington D.C. New documents obtained and released through a Judicial Watch lawsuit show the targeting of tea party and conservative groups came directly out of Washington D.C., … Continue reading
Texas Panty Twist
I love a food fight: In surprise move, Steve Stockman challenges John Cornyn Firebrand Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman on Monday mounted a surprise primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), setting the stage for the latest potentially explosive battle … Continue reading
Warren Democrats = Left-Wing Tea Party?
Joan Walsh: Bye-bye, fake liberals: The Warren Democrats are winning! The backlash against an inane Op-Ed bashing Elizabeth Warren shows that “economic populism” is the way forward I am very late to the Third Way-trashing party, but that’s a story … Continue reading
This Must Be Some Of That New Civility I Heard About
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen: Christie’s tea-party problem The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide reelection as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Express out to Iowa, surveying its various … Continue reading
Progs are Cray Cray
John B. Judis at New Republic: Right-wing Populism Could Hobble America for Decades The tea party is going down. Dysfunction is not. In the Federalist Papers, James Madison promised that a large republic with a representative government would avoid the … Continue reading
Oh Please! Oh Please! Oh Please!
National Journal: Inside the Messy but Moneyed Republican Plan to Neutralize the Tea Party It took a tea-party insurrection that disabled the federal government and wrecked the Republican brand, but after months of handwringing, establishment Republicans are preparing to attack … Continue reading
SHOCKER! Former Obama Speechwriter Bashes Tea Party!!!
Jon Favreau in The Daily Beast: In Official Washington, decrying “partisanship” as the “real problem” is the prerequisite for being taken seriously as a smart, unbiased political commentator. But from where we stand right now, partisanship is not the problem. … Continue reading
Occupy Tea Party?
Sean Hannity is not happy with Dingy Harry: Outrageous! Harry Reid blames Tea Party In a debate over sequestration cuts on the Senate floor yesterday, Democrat Harry Reid felt the need to blame the tea party. He actually compared the … Continue reading
Posted in Boston Bombing, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party
Tagged Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party
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Is Riverdaughter A Closeted Tea Partier?
No, seriously. Check out her latest: Then there was a new Poll Tax that was used to raise revenue for new wars. Ahhh, the military industrial complex of the middle ages. Some things never change. The tax was harsher on … Continue reading
Say what?
Via Althouse, here’s a snippet from a letter by Jim Messina, Campaign Manager for Obama for America re Iowa: The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory. No matter who the Republicans nominate, we’ll be running against someone who … Continue reading
Infidels and heretics
GOP senator says Tea Party challenges ‘killed off’ efforts at Republican majority Sen. Dick Lugar (Ind.) facing a primary contest from the right in his reelection bid said past Tea Party-backed challenges had “killed off” Republican efforts to take the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Elections, 2012 Elections, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Republican Party, Tea Party
Tagged Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party
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Occupy Rape
Via Verum Serum: Police investigate Occupy Philly sexual assault A man is under arrest, and police are processing him for sexually assaulting a woman at the Occupy Philly camp near City Hall Saturday night. His identity is not being released. … Continue reading
Posted in Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Tea Party, Uncategorized, Zombies
Tagged Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party
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If Not Now, When?
For a quarter century, the Congress has been under rules imposing a balanced budget. They have been changed and rewritten for years. You can still deficit spend, but you have to call the spending an emergency. So, the government considers … Continue reading
It takes a balloon head to know one
Matthews Yells At Tea Party Leader: Why Is ‘Balloon-Head’ Bachmann Speaking For You Chris Matthews was nearly apoplectic in his questioning of Tea Party Express co-founder Sal Russo on the topic of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and her controversial re-imagining of … Continue reading