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Report: Jim DeMint not running for president in 2012
WASHINGTON – Tea party hero and Republican Sen. Jim DeMint (SC) has privately ruled out a presidential run in 2012, according to the Washington Post‘s Chris Cillizza. Though he was never a top contender, DeMint carries significant weight with the tea party movement, which is expected to play an important…
Tea party invites GOP 2012 hopefuls to summit, but not Bachmann
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a tea party-affiliated group funded by the Koch brothers, will hold a summit in New Hampshire next month. Among attendees will be some familiar names with buzz about trying for the Republican nomination for the 2012 nomination. Tim Pawlenty will be in attendance, as will…
Bachmann ignores slavery in African-American history again
Black History Month was made for people like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). However, it increasingly looks as though the tea party heroine not only never paid attention to African-American history but seeks to re-write it in her own image. “Other than Native Americans who were here, all of us have…
Bachmann changes mind on cuts to veterans’ benefits
Tea party icon Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) backed off her controversial plan to cut federal spending for veterans’ benefits. Her $4.5 billion proposed cut to the Veterans’ Administration “received a lot of attention and I have decided that it should be removed from consideration,” Bachmann said in an advisory Friday.…
PolitiFact: Bachmann’s claims ‘false’ more often than any other politician
Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann isn’t letting her lack of credibility get in the way of her presidential ambitions. Only a day before the congresswoman’s Friday visit to Iowa, the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact noted that she had made false statements more often than any public official. “We have checked her…
Tea party unpopularity at an all-time high: poll
Two months after they voted in droves to topple Democrats from the House and expand Republican voices in the Senate, the tea party movement’s disapproval ratings have reached a new high, according to a new ABC/Washington Post poll. Fifty-two percent of the US public had an unfavorable view of “the…
Supreme Court Justice Alito: My fundraising for conservative causes is ‘not important’
Statement and fundraising appear to conflict with Code of Conduct for United States Judges Supreme Court Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. said his involvement with a conservative fundraiser was “not important” after being confronted by a Think Progress blogger Tuesday night. At a fundraising event for the right-wing magazine American…
Ex-Newsweek editor: Is right-wing living in ‘a mental institution?’
Correction: Fahreed Zakaria recently left Newsweek and is now with Time. A rumor that a trip by President Barack Obama to India would cost as much per day as US war in Afghanistan recently exploded across the blogosphere, catching the attention of the liberal host of HBO’s “Real Time with…
Report: Michele Bachmann to run for GOP leadership position
The tea party made historic gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections and if one Minnesota Republican has her way, the movement may be in line for a high ranking leadership position. A report at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment website indicates that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will enter the race for Republican Conference…
MSNBC host Chris Matthews asks Michele Bachmann if she’s been ‘hypnotized’
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews became so frustrated by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) repeating talking points during their Tuesday interview that he asked her if she had been “hypnotized.” Matthews began the interview where he left off two years ago when she told him that she wanted members of Congress investigated for…
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