Tag Archives: Tea Partiers

What John Ensign’s resignation means for Sharron Angle

By: Rachel Weiner The surprise resignation of Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) has major implications for another Nevada Republican: former assemblywoman Sharron Angle. Angle, who lost last fall to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, was planning to run for Rep. Dean Heller’s seat when the Republican congressman ran for Senate next year. Now that Ensign is [...]

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Tea party leader lashes out at Scott Brown

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN Sen. Scott Brown has thrown his tea party supporters “under the bus” with his recent critiques of some Republican budget cut proposals, a movement leader said Friday. Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, on Thursday denounced GOP suggestions to cut social and cultural programs as “irresponsible,” and Judson Phillips, a leader of Tea Party [...]

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Extremism in the Defense of Liberty

You students of political history may recognize the title of this post as part of a famous Barry Goldwater campaign slogan from the ’64 presidential contest. It is now being used as a title for a YouTube video that discusses the Tea Party movement, the Old Guard Republican Party, Frank Rich of the NYT and [...]

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GOP’s Senate prospects on the rise

Party strong in 10 contests The long-shot bid by Republicans to retake control of the Senate is suddenly in play, as the prospect of high-profile Republican candidates entering the fray has pushed the GOP even or ahead in polling for 10 races. The potential candidacies of former Republican Govs. George E. Pataki in New York [...]

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Behind The Meltdown In Massachusetts

By MICHELLE MALKIN By early afternoon on Tuesday, several hours before the polls closed on the special Senate election in Massachusetts, the Democrats had already thrown in the towel and started throwing punches. At each other. There was more finger-pointing among Bay State and Beltway Democrats than in a “Three Stooges” marathon. More backstabbing than [...]

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Energized Brown mocks desperate Dems

GOP upstart state Sen. Scott Brown took aim at Democratic opponent Attorney General Martha Coakley’s presidential bailout this afternoon, telling a packed hall of rowdy supporters he would stay connected to them and not embrace Washington, D.C. insiders. “They put in a distress call to Washington, and the next thing you know, Air Force One [...]

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Lincoln (D-AR) Poll #s: Wipeout

Here’s a blast from the past with the “VENTURES” performing their hit song “WIPEOUT.” I couldn’t think of a more appropriate song to characterize the corner that Blanche Lincoln has painted herself into except maybe, “CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE.” ~~John Cronin REAL CLEAR POLITICS Four Republican opponents lead Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) in potential general [...]

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Our 2009 Chickens and Their 2010 Roost–By: Victor Davis Hanson

Although 2009 was a very good year for me and my family, it was a miserable year for many people I know and for many Americans I will never meet. So, while I have much to be grateful for, it saddens me to see how much the country has suffered this past year. But even [...]

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Pelosi’s Telling Delay

Nancy Pelosi is fast becoming a complete joke. Her faux confidence in front of the cameras belies her growing desperation to get the radioactive health care expropriation bill passed before the TEA PARTY people catch up to her. ~~John Cronin~~ House Democrats may finally be taking note of voters’ fears of ObamaCare. The Dems were [...]

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A Tea Party Greets Obama In San Francisco

Solid Principles welcomes all visitors from Crooks & Liars, would you like to try some Podcast with that? Hat Tip to “John” from “The City Square Blogspot” and “Lucianne.com” for their hard work in bringing this great coverage of Obama’s San Francisco trip and the protest outside the hotel where he stayed. Below is a blog from a [...]

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