Instapundit links to articles on the third anniversary of the Tea Party movement, when the first rallies were held.
I attribute the rise to the rant earlier in February 2009 by Rick Santelli.
I can watch this over and over again without getting tired of it. It’s more true today than three...
I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of meeting with Anne Sorock and Yvonne Ralsky, co-founders of The Fontier Lab.
The Frontier Lab, among other things, utilizes “deep values research” common in consumer products marketing analysis (Anne is a Cornell Business School graduate who concentrated in the field) and applies those principles...
A Democratic SuperPAC just made my job of identifying House members to support as part of Operation Counterweight a whole lot easier.
The new SuperPAC will target 10 Tea Party congressmen, six of whom have been identified with four to be named, via HuffPo (h/t @JazzShaw):
A liberal super PAC is set Monday to...
It’s not looking good in Florida.
The polls show Romney surging as a result of the Romney plan exposed by The NY Times to overwhelm Newt via Romney’s close ties to Drudge and a collective effort of the Republican establishment to go after Newt in what The Wall Street Journal reported as “unlike...
If you asked me even a couple of weeks ago whether the Republican Party could heal from the wounds of this election cycle in time to unite against Obama, I would have said ”Yes.”
I’m not so sure anymore. After the South Carolina primary the Republican establishment, and media supporters like Matt Drudge, launched ...
This is from the “you can’t make this stuff up” files
Analysis from Small Dead Animals, The Other McCain, and Ace of Spades HQ:
This is the video of Michele Bachmann accusing Tea Party members, not just in South Carolina but “all across the country,” of taking money from Gingrich for endorsements, which I referenced in my post Friday:
The Bachmann SC Tea Party Coalition Leaders has issued a statement all but apologizing for the accusation,...
You know I have a big problem with Michele Bachmann making statements which are not supported by facts and then repeating them endlessly.
Her campaign is up to much worse in South Carolina, where her local campaign manager has suggested that the Gingrich campaign has paid off Tea Party leaders for support. Politico...
Richard Mourdock has been suggested by reader Listkeeper in the Tip Line as a possible Focus for his primary challenge to Richard Lugar. He has the backing of the Indiana Tea Party.
HuffPo says this is the only remaining Senate race where a Tea Party backed candidate has a chance or knocking...
Because these are the types of headlines from Tea Party rallies:
In one sense, it’s a tragedy because at a certain...
In December 2009, on the eve of the Senate vote on Obamacare, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) issued a blistering speech on the floor of the Senate lashing out at opposition to Obamacare, which was led by the Tea Party movement, in the most inflammatory terms.
Among other things, Whitehouse invoked...
I attended the Occupy Ithaca rally today, which was scheduled as a mass peaceful demonstration starting at noon outside a Bank of America branch in downtown Ithaca
As of 12:30 p.m., when I dropped by, there were about a dozen people holding signs. I kind of felt sorry for them.
None of the...
No, not Occupy Wall Street or Occupy anything.
That was the estimate by Nate Silver (then of 538 blog, now of The NY Times) of the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Parties. Silver noted the upward adjustment of the Tea Party rally in Atlanta from the 7,000 estimated by the Atlanta...
The silent majority.
The ones who pay the bills, and the taxes, and the tuitions, and the pensions, and the benefits, for the people who falsely claim to be the 99%.
The ones who did not graduate from the school of perpetual expectations and handouts.
The ones who falsely have been called terrorists and...
A common protest chant of the Occupy Wall Street crew and other radicals is “This is what democracy looks like!” – a trite, rhythmic expression of self-congratulation layered over an implication that they represent the true will of the people.
Yes, these protests are examples of things that can happen in a...
