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100 Tea Party Leaders Will Endorse Newt

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:32:33 CST

It's a big day for Newt Gingrich: After news of his surge in South Carolina and an endorsement from Rick Perry , the Daily Caller reports that he can also expect backing from 100 Tea Party leaders. The leaders, who represent 25 states, will announce a coalition supporting Gingrich today: Tea...

Tea Party a Non-Entity in NH

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:08:38 CST

Tea Partiers helped Republicans make major gains in the midterm elections, but where are they now? The movement is proving to be a non-entity when it comes to tomorrow's New Hampshire primary—and, seemingly, the rest of the election, Politico reports. Tea Party leaders have not coalesced behind a single...

Tea Partier's Protest Plan: No More Hiring

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:59:46 CDT

Well, here’s one idea for small businesses to help get us out of this economic mess we’re in: Stop hiring people! That’s the proposal from Tea Party Nation member Melissa Brookstone in a manifesto picked up (and derided) by Gawker and Wonkette . Brookstone’s post accuses the Obama administration, the “progressive...

Tea Party Takes On Occupy Wall Street

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:30:05 CDT

The Tea Party has a message for you: It is nothing like Occupy Wall Street, even though there have been many inevitable comparisons between the two movements. Such comparisons are “almost laughable,” however, a chief strategist for the Tea Party Express tells Politico . A FreedomWorks campaigns director explains that the...

Bush-Perry Rivalry Runs Deep

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:04:02 CDT

Rick Perry took over George W. Bush's job as Texas governor, and he'd sure like to grab Bush's old gig in the Oval Office, but don't expect Dubya to leap up to help put him there. Seems there's long-running tension—if not an outright feud—between the two that dates...

Tea Party Frosh Have Voted in Lockstep With GOP

Kevin Spak — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:00:58 CDT

The House’s crop of enraged Tea Party freshmen hasn’t exactly been the independent firebrands they were advertised as, at least as far as their actual voting record is concerned. In more than 100 key House votes, Republican freshmen bucked their party at a rate of about 12.5%, almost identical...

Obama Heckled Over Biden 'Terrorist' Comment

Guvner — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:39:10 CDT

President Obama was greeted with some unexpected spice at the end of his town hall meeting in Iowa last night, when the founder of the Iowa Tea Party confronted him about Joe Biden's alleged remark that Tea Party members acted like "terrorists" (the VP denies saying it ). Obama didn't...

Debt Deal Clears the House

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:10:12 CDT

John Boehner's House of Representatives tonight voted convincingly in favor of the hard-fought, eleventh-hour deal on the debt ceiling, reports the Wall Street Journal , in a 269-161 vote. Democrats split 95 to 95 over the measure, while hardline conservatives made their objections known, with 66 Republicans voting nay. But the...

Bring Back 'Sane' GOP of Bush 41

Mark Russell — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:23:52 CDT

With today's Republican Party being led around by Tea Party extremists, Thomas Friedman misses the adult supervision of George HW Bush, he writes in the New York Times . Calling him "one of our most underrated presidents," Friedman contends that Bush p è re brought foreign policy "deftness" and, more importantly,...