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Tea party ‘leader’ Dick Armey confuses Benghazi with Bangladesh
On the same day that a poll found that many Republicans did not know where Benghazi was even though they considered last year’s terrorist attack there to be the biggest scandal in American history, tea party leader Dick Armey confused the city with the country of Bangladesh. Fox News on…
Dick Armey on $8 million FreedomWorks severance: I ‘couldn’t leave with empty pockets’
Former House Majority Leader and Tea Party favorite Dick Armey defended the huge payout he received for leaving FreedomWorks in an interview this weekend with ABC News, saying he, “couldn’t leave with empty pockets.” After an acrimonious rift developed between himself and others at FreedomWorks, Armey quietly resigned from the…
Report: FreedomWorks leader accused Dick Armey of ‘attempted hostile takeover’
The president of the conservative activist group FreedomWorks accused former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) of trying to hijack the group as part of an “attempted hostile takeover” of the organization, according to documents obtained by Mother Jones. In the memo, Matt Kibbe says Armey, who founded and led…
Tea party leader Dick Armey quits Koch-linked FreedomWorks over ‘matters of principle’
Former Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) has quit the Koch brothers-linked tea party group FreedomWorks, according to an internal communique obtained by Mother Jones magazine. From the sound of his letter, it was not a happy parting. The missive, which the former House majority leader confirmed he wrote, demands payment through Dec.…
Dick Armey: Don’t control guns because cars can kill people too
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey on Thursday argued that guns should not be regulated after the massacre that killed 12 and wounded 58 in Colorado because the suspect could have “taken a car and driven it into a school bus” — and firearm restrictions would be like taking away…
But this restores my faith in humanity
That the parody videos crop up within less than 24 hours of an incident like Dick Armey trying to shut up Joan Walsh with his sexist nonsense.…
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