Tag Archives: Tea Party

Not a Smidgen of Corruption?

Posted on May 15, 2014 by

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 →

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Texas Panty Twist

Posted on December 12, 2013 by

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 →

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Warren Democrats = Left-Wing Tea Party?

Posted on December 6, 2013 by

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 →

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This Must Be Some Of That New Civility I Heard About

Posted on November 13, 2013 by

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 →

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Progs are Cray Cray

Posted on October 31, 2013 by

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 →

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They Did It To Themselves

Posted on October 29, 2013 by

Ian Welsh: A brief note on why the progressive blog movement failed In the early 2000s progressive blogging seemed like a big deal. At the first Yearly Kos, as it was called then, big name politicians came and kissed our … Continue reading →

Posted in Barack Obama, Blogging, Nutroots Nation, Obamanation, Tea Party, Vile Progs | Tagged , , , , | 125 Comments

Oh Please! Oh Please! Oh Please!

Posted on October 24, 2013 by

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 →

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SHOCKER! Former Obama Speechwriter Bashes Tea Party!!!

Posted on October 22, 2013 by

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 →

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When Did The Tea Party Admit They Were Racist?

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

Daily Caller: Former NAACP head: Tea party ‘admittedly racist,’ ‘Taliban wing of American politics’ On Tuesday’s broadcast of Thomas Robert’s 11 a.m. MSNBC program, NAACP President Emeritus Julian Bond defended the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of tea party groups, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Rights, Playing the Race Card, Racism, Tea Party | Tagged , | 38 Comments

Occupy Tea Party?

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

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 , | 36 Comments

Is Riverdaughter A Closeted Tea Partier?

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

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 →

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Say what?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

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 →

Posted in Disingenuous Democrats, Tea Party | Tagged | 13 Comments

So close, yet so far

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

Jefferson Morley at Salon: In his new book, “Pity the Billionaire,” Tom Frank turns his mordant eye on the unlikeliest political development of the Obama presidency: how the crash of 2008 served to strengthen the political right. The deregulation of … Continue reading →

Posted in 2010 Elections, 2012 Elections, Barack Obama, Crony Capitalism, Democratic Party, Economy, Financial Meltdown, Republican Party, Tea Party | Tagged | 6 Comments

Infidels and heretics

Posted on December 25, 2011 by

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 , | 25 Comments

We don’t serve tea or Koolaid in here

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

riverdaughter, on November 19, 2011 at 9:05 pm said: There is a certain segment of the Tea Party who I think will be very susceptible to the OWS movement. They’re the ones the DNC blew off for Obama. Right now, … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 Elections, Barack Obama, Crony Capitalism, Democratic Party, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Tea Party, Uncategorized | Tagged , | 42 Comments

Occupy Rape

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

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 , | 22 Comments

If Not Now, When?

Posted on August 3, 2011 by

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 →

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It takes a balloon head to know one

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

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 →

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