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Tea party condemns children’s book about anarchy
A Rule Is to Break: A Child’s Guide to Anarchy described by Tea Party publication as ‘downright shocking’ The gently humorous children’s book A Rule Is to Break: A Child’s Guide to Anarchy, which exhorts kids to “Think for Yourself”, “Give Away Stuff for Free” and “Do What You Want”, has…
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…
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…
Rep. Israel slams the tea party: ‘The House is in range’ for Democrats
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on Wednesday said that Democrats had a chance to take back the U.S. House because voters’ opinion of the tea party movement had soured. “Here is why we lost in 2010,” he told CBS News political director John Dickerson.…
Reid: ‘The tea party is dying out’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) appeared on Meet The Press Sunday morning, expressing his belief that the tea party’s influence is diminishing. Reid talked about his frustration again with Republicans in Congress, citing last month’s payroll tax debate as a potential turning point for improved relations. “I would hope…
Bachmann: Occupy’s goal is ‘having other people pay for their stuff’
Struggling Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-MN) says that a recent poll showing more people disagree with the tea party is hogwash — and that it’s really the Occupy movement that is out of step with public opinion. The Pew Research Center found last month that 27 percent of Americans…
The Tea Party’s influence felt on the local level, with book bannings
Even though it will be pointedly ignored by mainstream media types wed to the narrative that the Tea Party is a spontaneous uprising of people who were apolitical before Obama sent them around the bend, I'm guessing many of you read with interest Robert Putnam and David Campbell's distillation of…
The Ants Go Marching One By One
Republicans went ahead with Paul Ryan's plan to have everyone hate them…err, end Medicare, despite the fact that it polled terribly and has only gotten worse for them. “The tea party itch has definitely not been scratched, so the voices who were saying, ‘Let’s do this in a way…
The end of the Tea Party?
Hilariously low turnout—especially compared to left-driven events as of late—at various Tax Day events held by the Tea Party is causing some to declare the phenomenon over. Rachel Maddow covered it: Paul Waldman at the Prospect covered it, citing Michael Scherer and Jed Lewison at Daily Kos. There's a couple…
The Tea Party’s war on humor and self-awareness
Has been won: As hard as it may be to believe, this magazine cover is not a parody. They’re not making fun of the urge of a bunch of suburbanite tea baggers working office jobs to imagine themselves as rugged farmers working old-fashioned fields their actual dietary and housing demands…
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