It's just workplace violence, disconnected from anything....
Implicated in video taping of Thad Cochran's wife, but his alleged role and the legal theory never were clear....
PACs supporting incumbent liberal Republican Richard Hanna are airing non-stop TV ads attacking Claudia Tenney as not conservative enough....
Hilarious this a.m. to be hear new take on #Cantor loss: "Laura Ingraham made it personal." High turnout was based on POLICY. #sorelosers
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) June 15, 2014
A surprising number made it to the general election....
A picture really is worth a thousand words. Just look at the expression on the face of MSNBC's Touré Neblett when the son of Martin Luther King Jr. says black people should engage with the Tea Party. Brendan Bordelon of the Daily Caller sets the scene...
New revelations in the Benghazi scandal dominated the news this week and even caused John Boehner to announce the formation of a select committee for further investigation. With so much focus on Benghazi, it's easy to forget that there are other scandals to be investigated such...
Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has a reputation for being a fiscal conservative. His new budget proposal serves as further evidence of his dedication to responsibility with our nation's finances. Russell Berman and Bernie Becker of The Hill reported yesterday...
I wish I cared enough to have an opinion on whether we won or lost....
Was a police raid necessary to check permits and compliance?...
Professor Jacobson recently noted that we just celebrated the 5th anniversary of the birth of America's Tea Party movement. He noted one of the best aspects about his involvement has been the people that he has met during his "insurrection". As a citizen activist in California,...
"There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea party site"...
You could slice and dice this into great headlines reflecting well on the Tea Party in America. But you won't see those headlines.
Why the surge in favorablity and decline in unfavorability? Perhaps it's because the massive media attack on the Tea Party after the "shutdown" was overblown, and the Tea Party was proven correct on so many things, particularly Obamacare.
As to whether the Tea Party has too much influence, the numbers also are postive although not dramatic:
February 19, 2009, is the date credited as the start of the Tea Party movement, although some activists would differ and say they already were laying the groundwork. But there's no doubt that Rick Santelli's call for a Chicago Tea Party on CNBC was the moment that...
A united front is needed, but we are likely to get a Republican war on the Tea Party instead....
“While you were all celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends, the Obama Administration was quietly releasing a new set of draconian IRS regulations that would make it virtually impossible for tea parties that want to participate in the political process to do their business. They’re going after conservative groups, they’re going after libertarian groups, and they’re going after citizen groups that want to organize people based on the values of the constitution; based on the ideas of freedom and have an impact on the political conversation.”In a nutshell, the agency will be using one of the administration's favorite tactics: Redefining terms. There would be favorable rulings for groups promoting "social welfare."
