2010: The Year of the Tea Party. 2012: Not so much
The benefits in the House for Republicans after the 2010 election were fairly straightforward: John Boehner got the Speaker's gavel, and with it, the ability to obstruct Obama's agenda. The drawbacks weren't so obvious.
Here's a blast from the p...
John Boehner seeks to cut tea party faction out of payroll tax cut extension negotiations
Speaker John Boehner eyes his bête noire, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Larry Downing/Reuters)
Congressional aides tell Reuters that House Speaker John Boehner will cut the tea party contingent in his caucus out of the negotiations in deal-making fo...
Tea party cave-in on payroll tax extension bodes well for Democrats in next skirmish
Speaker John Boehner sizing up his real opposition, Minority Leader Eric Cantor (Larry Downing/Reuters)
It would seem that the fun has just begun for House Speaker John Boehner, who now has to navigate to the middle class tax break that all sane Rep...
Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation Poll: Plurality calls Republican agenda ‘too extreme’
With our top-line approval and favorability ratings changing very little over the last couple of weeks, I thought we'd instead focus on a topical question we included with our most recent poll.
Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos & SEIU. 11/10-13....
Tea Party suckers find out trickle-down economics is a scam; file lawsuit
No, seriously! You just have to learn how to read the story correctly. It's all right here:
A group of conservative investors in Tennessee is suing a California businessman for allegedly conning them into investing in Tea Party HD, a TV channel aimed ...
Florida Tea Party locked in pointless battle with CAIR; claims boycotts are ‘Sharia Law’
Cracked.
This one is a bit hard to summarize, but the short version: The Florida Tea Party would like you to know it is very, very tolerant, it's just that the Muslims are using Sharia against them and hate the First Amendment and stuff. That'...
Tea party heckler calls Elizabeth Warren a ‘socialist whore’
At a campaign event Elizabeth Warren held for volunteers last night, a tea party heckler called her "a socialist whore." He then struggled with a locked door as he attempted to leave:
Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening...
Dear tea party, we are not your enemy
I'm not going to lie to you. I've said bad things about the tea party. Lots of bad things. I've been snide. I've been demeaning. It's hard not to be when the term "tea party" has most often been associated with the radical fringe of the Republican Par...
Tea party wants to shed its Bachmann baggage
"Pssttt ... I'll bet you can't guess where I hope the door doesn't hit me on the way out!" (Adam Hunger/Reuters)
Tea partiers have started to notice that there's something weird and cloying about Michele Bachmann:
A tea party group has a surprising a...
Online interest in Occupy Wall Street surpasses all-time peak of online interest in tea party
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Google's Politics and Elections blog just posted a big finding. At its height earlier this month, online interest in Occupy Wall Street was higher than the all-time peak of online interest in the tea party back in April of 2009:
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Occupy Wall Street already has at least as much support as tea party
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Four polls confirm that Occupy Wall Street has at least equaled, and likely surpassed, the tea party in terms of total number of supporters. No matter how polling firms phrase their questions, the tea party never comes out on to...
