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Obama vows to punish IRS staff who targeted tea party groups
Barack Obama has pledged Internal Revenue Service employees who discriminated against Tea Party groups will be held accountable after an independent watchdog heavily criticised the tax organisation for “inappropriate” behaviour. Obama – who on Monday said he was withholding his final judgement until he saw the report – made his…
Progressives seek wary alliance with tea party to oust Mitch McConnell
A progressive super PAC in Kentucky is looking at getting in bed with the tea party in order to oust the six-term incumbent Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Hearing last week’s news that a coalition of tea party groups calling themselves the United Tea Party of Kentucky are targeting…
Sam Donaldson to tea party: ‘It’s not your country anymore – it’s our country’
During an appearance on Chris Matthews‘ syndicated weekend talk show, ABC News contributor and analyst Sam Donaldson criticized the tea party and argued that the movement and the Republican party were becoming increasingly in danger of irrelevancy. “It’s the Tea Party and thinking of the Tea Party and people like…
Herman Cain: Break up the Republican Party to ‘save the country’
Former presidential candidate Herman Cain said Wednesday that the time has come for tea party conservatives to break away from the Republican Party and form their own political organization, which he said would “save the country.” “I never thought that I would say this, and this is the first time…
Tea Party ‘lying low’ on presidential race, but still active locally
The Tea Party has been relatively quiet during the presidential election but supporters of the right-wing movement which burst on to the political scene three years ago say it has not gone away. “They say that the Tea Party is dead because we’re not probably as active out there with…
Tea Party pushes for change at Republican National Convention
The Republican National Convention will be shortened one day by bad weather, but activists from the conservative Tea Party movement heralded advancing Tropical Storm Isaac as a timely symbol of big changes ahead after November’s election. “We are looking at a hurricane here in Florida,” said Michele Bachmann, a Tea…
Tea Party leader calls for ‘insurrection’ against Obamacare
Numerous Republicans have expressed discontent with the Supreme Court’s upholding of the Affordable Care Act, but it took a Tea Party leader to imply that the decision could justify a new Civil War. Mississippi Tea Party Chairman Roy Nicholson posted a statement at his group’s website on Friday proclaiming that…
Orrin Hatch in the fight of his career, courtesy of the Tea Party
Sen. Orrin Hatch: Will the tea party bring him down in Utah? Two years ago, a conservative US senator in conservative Utah – three-term incumbent Bob Bennett – got the boot at the Republican state nominating convention, losing to tea party favorite Mike Lee at a time when ever having…
Tea Party and Occupy activists rub shoulders at Bilderberg protest
With protest entering its third day in good spirits, even police officers raise the odd smile as they hold the line A protest targeting a secretive meeting of powerful international leaders entered a third day Saturday, with numbers swelling well into the hundreds. Clear skies and pleasant temperatures made for…
Gingrich: Tea party lost ‘the passion they had in 2010′
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) said Sunday that the tea party movement would probably not be as influential in 2012 as it was in 2010. Although he believes the tea party will still be important in a number of elections, he conceded to CNN’s Candy Crowley that they “don’t…
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