Tag: tea party
Two lumps of bitter with your tea: Anti-Stimulus pile-on at the...
The Denver Post published a factchecking piece on the disparity between the number of jobs reported to have been created so far in the...
Conservatives rework rhetoric after high-profile New York loss
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. --Slightly before midnight on Tuesday, reality reared its ugly head. Hoffman lost to Democrat Bill Owens, who became the first member of his party to represent this region of New York in Congress since the 1870s. The margin when Hoffman conceded was slightly more than 4,000 votes. Nothing went right. Owens won his base in the northeastern part of the district, and he won or held his own in the parts of the district that Scozzafava–who endorsed Owens after leaving the race–represents in the assembly. Hoffman underperformed in the Syracuse, N.Y., suburbs that neither candidate had political ties to, even though polls had him leading by a 2-1 margin there.
GOP Rep. Lamborn unironically laments lack of civility at town hall
U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, didn't join the six other members of the Colorado delegation at a health care town hall on Saturday...
How I funded the tea parties and other tales from the...
Dave Weigel, reporting at the Washington Independent on the Defending the American Dream Summit sponsored by Americans for Prosperity this weekend, delivers a few...
Tea party protesters arrive in D.C., Cheer Wilson
WASHINGTON-- The walk from the subway station to the Freedom Summit was quick, less than two minutes if the attendees didn’t dawdle. Every twenty or so paces, smiling volunteers with FreedomWorks shirts or badges ushered them towards the Armory, a sports arena more often used to host Rollergirl bouts and “American Idol” tryouts. Approaching the entrance, the people who’d trekked from as far away as San Diego and Maui could buy buttons — “Proud to be a Teabagger,” “ACORN is for Squirrels,” and “Quit AARP Now!”–and pick up information packets on how to make the most of what organizers assured them would be part of American history.
Tea party protester: ‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God’
Here’s a fairly representative video from the Freedom Summit in D.C. today — Annie Rupp, a conservative activist from Hawaii, going nuclear on the...
Gardner health reform town hall not so much about health reform
State Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, is holding health-care town halls in the swing Fourth District, where he is also running to unseat Democratic U.S....
Rep. Markey acts on a Tea Party tip to audit The...
Democratic U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey has cosponsored a bill that would establish regular auditing of the Federal Reserve-- the nation's bank, which presently, according...