Bachmann, Coulter Named As Witnesses In Suit Over Alleged Tea Party TV Scam
Activism Friday, January 27th, 2012
After no one took him up on his televised “lie detector challenge,” the man accused of scamming his co-investors in the failed television venture Tea Party HD is trying to make his case by calling a number of high-profile conservative witnesses like Michele Bachmann and Ann Coulter to his defense.
Activism, Breaking News, Headlines Thursday, January 26th, 2012
FORT WALTON BEACH — Mitt Romney is a close first choice to be the Republican presidential nominee for some 75 Fort Walton Beach Tea Party members.
Al Sharpton Ignores Tea Party Congressman Repeatedly Asking ‘What’s Your Income?’
Activism Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Mitt Romney‘s tax returns provided at least one commentator plenty of fodder to feed his theory that the tax rates are unfair in this country: Al Sharpton, who invited on his program today Tea Party Congressman Rep. Tim Huelskamp for a spirited debate on social justice. It was the sort of debate where short questions were thrown in each other’s general direction but went, as ships passing in the night, equally unanswered. The two main questions: from Rev. Sharpton: “Is it fair?” after a number of statistics on tax rates that Rep. Huelskamp labeled untruths; and from Rep. Huelskamp: “What’s your income?”
Allen West, black conservatives challenge black-voter ‘myths’
Activism Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Republican Congressman Allen West says fellow African-Americans often confess to him in a low voice, “I agree with you.”
Reid takes a swing at Tea Party in opening the Senate
Activism Monday, January 23rd, 2012
By Josiah Ryan, The Hill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) opened the Senate after more than a month of recess on Monday by chastising Tea Party Republicans for obstructionist tactics they employed last year. “Influenced by these Tea Party voices, Republicans forced us to waste months on routine legislation that nearly shut down our [...]
Activism, Breaking News, Headlines Saturday, January 21st, 2012
By Kevin Liptak, CNN The Tea Party Express announced Thursday it would again provide its own response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, this year with former presidential candidate Herman Cain as the headliner. Cain, who dropped out of the 2012 race in December, will deliver the rebuttal to Obama January 24. [...]
Activism, Breaking News, Headlines Friday, January 20th, 2012
Calling President Obama weak for the way he’s dealing with Iran, Tea Party Republican Rep. Allen West (Fla.) told The Hill that the United States should be saying “game on” to Iran in the face of its recent threats to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Activism, Headlines Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Texas Rep. Ron Paul earns 16 percent support for the Republican nomination in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, statistically unchanged from 15 percent in December and in the same range as Newt Gingrich (17 percent) and Rick Santorum (13 percent). Frontrunner Mitt Romney leads with 35 percent.
Dems Claim They Can Reverse The Tea Party Tide In 2012
Activism Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
By PEMA LEVY, Talking Points Memo After a wave election gave Republicans the majority in the House of Representatives in 2010, no one thought that Democrats, a year later, would be in a position to take it back. But, that’s exactly where Democrats claim to be. At a press briefing Wednesday, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee [...]
Tea Party “kingmaker” DeMint focuses on Senate races
Activism Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Everybody was waiting for Jim DeMint. Mitt Romney had reason to hope the South Carolina senator would repeat his 2008 endorsement of his presidential bid.