Tag Archives: Tea Party

Dilettantes Run Rampant Over Shooting

When the 2010 Time Square Car Bombing failed, Mayor Bloomberg famously fingered the Tea Party, when the perpetrator turned out to be an Islamic Separatist, Bloomberg showed accusing in hast was the quickest route to a gaffe. As Bryon York at the Washington Examiner points out, When Maj. Nidal Hasan started firing and shouting ”Allahu Akbar!” at [...]

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Left Shamelessly Seeks to Exploit Arizona Tragedy

By Jonathan S. Tobin The shooting in Arizona is the sort of thing that obligates all sides in political debates to call a timeout. Right now our collective prayers are with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her family as she struggles for life, as well as with the families of those who were murdered in this [...]

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Gabrielle Giffords downplayed threat of violence

By KENNETH P. VOGEL & JONATHAN MARTIN POLITICO Before being shot in the head while meeting with constituents Saturday, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had endured vandalism to her district office, held a similar “Congress On Your Corner” event in which someone had dropped a gun and expressed concerns on more than one occasion that escalating rhetoric [...]

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Reid: Tea party’s days are numbered

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes the tea party’s days are numbered.   By: Shira Toeplitz POLITICO “The tea party will disappear as soon as the economy gets better. And the economy’s getting better all the time,” Reid said in a pre-recorded interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” scheduled to air Sunday. Reid argued that [...]

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11 faith-based predictions for 2011

  [Editor's Note:  I am not endorsing the opinions in this article, but merely posting it to help inform our readers of what others are thinking as we head into the New Year.]  ~~John Cronin~~ By Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor To open 2011, CNN’s Belief Blog asked 10 religious leaders and experts – [...]

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2012 Senate Races

POLITICO SENATE 2012 – “GOP candidates rush to get into Senate races,” by AP’s Philip Elliott: “Less than two months after voters gave Republicans six more Senate seats and control of the House, the GOP is lining up candidates for 2012, well ahead of the pace of previous election cycles. Looking to ride what they [...]

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Meet Missouri Rep.-Elect Vicky Hartzler

Missouri Republican Rep.-elect Vicky Hartzler is a formidable force. She proved as much in November, when the Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney PAC-endorsed candidate unseated 17-term Congressman Ike Skelton, the powerful chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Now, having toppled the veteran legislator, she will be taking a spot on the committee he once [...]

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‘I Thought I Smelt a Rat’, or, ‘Winning Primaries, Losing Elections The Tea Party Way’.

How was it possible that Sen. Harry Reid, a man behind in the polls, a public enemy outside of Nevada get re-elected to the US. Senate? I instantly sniffed a rat in the making, I took the conclusion it was voter fraud that pushed Dirty Harry over the line. I had no evidence, and if [...]

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Pence for President?

By:  Katrina Trinko NRO No one has gone straight from the House to the White House since James Garfield. Mike Pence might be the one. He hasn’t held executive office. He isn’t a paid Fox News contributor. He hasn’t written a best-seller or starred in a reality show. So is there any reason Rep. Mike [...]

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GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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