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WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea party-supported candidates in New Hampshire and Delaware seized early leads over establishment-backed rivals in Republican senatorial races Tuesday, the finale to a primary season marked by economic recession and political upheaval.
In New Hampshire, Ovide Lamontagne was gaining 52 percent of the vote to 32 percent for former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, with ballots counted from 6 percent of the state's precincts.
Returns from more than one-third of Delaware precincts showed Christine O'Donnell with 55 percent of the vote. Rep. Mike Castle, a fixture in state politics for a generation, had 44 percent in a race that turned particularly negative in recent weeks after the Tea Party Express rode to O'Donnell's aid.WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea party-supported candidates in New Hampshire and Delaware... more
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has upheld a $20,000 fine against a leader of the movement challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship.
The high court on Monday refused to block a federal judge's October 2009 ruling that required California lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz to pay the $20,000 fine for filing a "frivolous" litigation. The judge said Taitz attempted to misuse the federal courts to push a political agenda.
Taitz sued in Georgia federal court on behalf of Army Capt. Connie Rhodes. Rhodes sought to avoid deployment to Iraq by claiming Obama wasn't born in the United States.
Justice Samuel Alito on Monday rejected Taitz's second request to block the sanctions. Justice Clarence Thomas had rejected the request earlier.WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has upheld a $20,000 fine against a leader of the... more
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If you say anything negative about Obama, you're obviously just a right-wing racist Teabagger.
If you say anything negative about Glenn Beck and/or the Tea Party movement, then you must be a pro-Obama socialist communist who takes money from George Soros and reads Saul Alinksy.
Rinse and repeat.If you say anything negative about Obama, you're obviously just a right-wing... more
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It looks like the corporate media may soon use Byron Williams to demonize the Tea Party movement. Earlier today the Associated Press reported that the man who confronted police and ended up in a pitched gun battle on Interstate 580 in Oakland, California, had it out for the ACLU and Tides Foundation. “Oakland police Officer Jeff Thomason says Byron Williams was upset with the ACLU and Tides Foundation for their left-leaning political views.”
The Tides Foundation is funded in part by George Soros’ Open Society Institute. It is a high level globalist operation that also gets cash from AT&T, ChevronTexaco, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Verizon, and Bill and Melinda Gates. It has partnered with the Ford Foundation and the World Health Organization. The Ford Foundation has a history of collaboration with the CIA. It is said that Soros has donated more than $5 million to the ACLU since 1998.
On Sunday, it was reported that a Soros-funded group with close links to the Obama administration has called for the FCC to investigate both talk radio and cable television news. “The organization, calling itself Free Press, claims media companies are engaging in “hate speech” because a disproportionate number of radio and cable-news networks are owned by non-minorities,” writes Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily.
“Hate has seemingly emerged as a profit-model for many radio programs syndicated throughout the country, because only a few companies own the majority of the radio stations nationally,” the group declares.
A San Francisco Chronicle blogger going by the name Zennie62 writes today that the suspected shooter in Oakland was a Tea Party sympathizer.
“Byron Williams… hated left-wing politicians and had on a bullet-proof vest. In other words, a Tea Party sympathizer,” he writes. “That he was on the Oakland stretch of I-580 may have been no accident, considering Oakland’s a hot bed of left-wing political activity. Byron Williams also reads (sic) like a Tea Party sympathizer, and not exactly the warm and fuzzy kind. More like the kind that wants to harm you if you disagree with him.” He then compares Williams to Joe Stack and Mark Williams of the Republican-dominated Tea Party Express. Zennie62 says Williams is a racist because he disagreed with the NAACP’s resolution calling the Tea Party movement racist.
The “GOP and the Tea Party, and its extremist expressions of hate for liberal politics are in a way responsible for encouraging the actions of i-580 Shooter (now he has a title) Byron Williams, and for Joe Stack too,” writes the San Francisco Chronicle blogger. “The GOP better look at itself and start being part of the solution, because it and Fox News are helping to produce domestic terrorists at an alarming rate. Republicans can’t just ignore the Tea Party Express, it must totally repudiate it, and the actions of its most hateful members.”
Obviously, Mr. Zennie62 has not done his homework. The Tea Party Express is closely aligned with the GOP Borg Collective. “The self-described grassroots activists in Tea Party Patriots and the American Liberty Alliance see the Tea Party Express as a sham organization, using the political heft of the movement to push a bland, partisan Republican agenda,” writes David Weigel for the Washington Independent.
According to Politico, the Tea Party Express is a creature of the establishment Republican consulting firm Russo Marsh + Rogers.It looks like the corporate media may soon use Byron Williams to demonize the Tea... more
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The Tea Party movement has been one of the most exhilarating things to happen to American politics in decades. Millions of Americans who have become increasingly frustrated with government and who feel that they are not being represented have banded together to take collective action in what is truly one of the greatest grass roots movements in U.S. political history. Some have even suggested that the Tea Party movement should become a new political party. Every single day now, the Tea Party movement makes headlines all over the globe and it has had some tremendous success in getting some candidates elected recently. But are there problems on the horizon? The truth is that there are only a few things that almost everyone in the Tea Party movement agrees on. But there are a whole bunch of issues that are creating major ideological divisions among Tea Party activists. In fact, most of the issues listed below will create huge arguments at any Tea Party gathering. The reality is that the Tea Party movement has attracted a very diverse group of people, and there are only a few points that they all agree on. So can such a fractured movement survive in the long-term?The Tea Party movement has been one of the most exhilarating things to happen to... more
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Some young professionals who are overwhelmed by the economic issues facing the nation are turning to the Tea Party to find a solution, said Tim Kraulidis, the state coordinator for the Illinois Tax Day Tea Party Movement.
“Young professionals are discouraged,” Kraulidis said. “And what are they going to do, write to their congressman?”
The Tea Party Movement is made up of grassroots organizations that protest against government spending in coordinated rallies. Most of the people who identify with the political group tend to be older than 45, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. Only seven percent of those aged 18 – 29, and 16 percent of those aged 30 – 44, called themselves Tea Partiers.
But as more young professionals begin to feel increasingly “helpless” about the nation’s finances, Kraulidis believes they’ll start coming on board.
Read more at http://www.ypnation.net/tea-party-trying-attract-more-young-peopleSome young professionals who are overwhelmed by the economic issues facing the nation... more
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What should have been a time of triumph for the Tea Party movement, with Rand Paul's stunning rout of Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in last Tuesday's Republican U.S. Senate primary, has turned within 72 hours into a massive public-relations disaster, further solidifying the Tea Party's negative public image as a radical fringe movement. . .
http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2010/05/despite-rand-pauls-win-tea-party-still.htmlWhat should have been a time of triumph for the Tea Party movement, with Rand... more
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Poll: Rand Paul Surges Ahead of Palin Among Voters Who Describe Themselves as Morons
Key Constituency for Two Hopefuls
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In a sign of his increasing prominence in the so-called Tea Party movement, a new poll shows Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul topping former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin among voters who describe themselves as morons.
In the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, 42% preferred Paul, 36% preferred Palin, and the remaining 22% were unsure what the word “prefer” meant.
According to Davis Logsdon, who supervised the poll for the University of Minnesota, Paul’s surging popularity among morons is bad news for Palin, who previously had a lock on that important constituency.
“I never thought I’d say this, but if Palin is going to stay competitive with Paul, she’s going to have to start dumbing down her message.Poll: Rand Paul Surges Ahead of Palin Among Voters Who Describe Themselves as Morons... more
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Who's afraid of the big, bad Tea Party movement? If you guessed the Democrats, you'd be dead wrong. On the contrary, it's the Republicans who need to be worried.The new demographic survey of the Tea Party movement by The New York Times and CBS News confirms that the movement is essentially the core electoral base of the Republican Party -- and more likely to wreak havoc in the GOP primaries this spring than in the general election next fall.
http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2010/04/poll-confirms-tea-party-movement.htmlWho's afraid of the big, bad Tea Party movement? If you guessed the Democrats,... more
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This is clearly a disturbing video. It has a taste of George Orwell, a bit of Buffalo Bob, wait, does anyone remember Buffalo Bob? This video essay was done by the older politicos in the newsroom who wasted most of their high school days studying political science and boring subjects like that. WHACKO-TV has always given spare time to opposite opinions. Well, at least that is the lip service we give, so Howdy Doody to you too, brutay.This is clearly a disturbing video. It has a taste of George Orwell, a bit of Buffalo... more
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YPNation contributor Will Schirano talks about the state of politics today, the need to end the status quo and the lessons that continue to go unlearned by both parties:
"...But if you were marching in that protest on Sunday afternoon, chances are you wouldn't have been tuned into just how much this country wanted to part ways with President George W. Bush and his defenders.
You see, this group of individuals doesn't see the Bush years for what they were to everyone else. In their mind the Bush administration was doing the "right thing" -- the always popular defense of scoundrels. During the time when Bush was President of the United States, these individuals would defend just about anything the administration did, whether it was dumping buckets of money on farmers, creating a whole new Medicare entitlement, wiretapping Americans, or simply ignoring Afghanistan to the point where the Taliban has once again become a threat.
And they are still defending those disastrous years, because they can only view them through the lens of the current administration. In other words, because certain things are worse than they were during the Bush years, that somehow makes those years successful. As a psychology major, I can understand that kind of thinking--it's similar to what Russians went through following the collapse of the Soviet Union when they told the Western press they yearned for the days of Stalin."
http://www.ypnation.net/state-politics-brave-new-worldYPNation contributor Will Schirano talks about the state of politics today, the need... more
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“Coffee Party” Founder Is Obama Campaign Operative
March 3rd, 2010
Billed as an alternative grassroots movement to the Tea Party, which has been for the most part absorbed by mainline Republicans and Neoconservatives, the “Coffee Party” promised to wake up politically minded Americans and offered a different avenue for the freedom movement.
“Coffee Party” Founder Is Obama Campaign Operative...VIDEO...VIDEO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/bullsht-conservative-coffee-party%e2%80%9d-founder-annabel-park-is-obama-campaign-operative-video/
However, the so called founder of the Coffee Party has been quickly exposed as an Obama campaign operative, whose caffeine concept was purely designed to undermine and co-opt the Tea Party ideology“Coffee Party” Founder Is Obama Campaign Operative
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Glenn Beck slams Debra Medina for not disavowing 9-11 truthers
TV and radio commentator Glenn Beck dismissed the candidacy of Debra Medina when she left open the door to a conspiracy fringe group that believe the U.S. government might have been behind the 9-11 destruction of the World Trade Center.
Beck, a leading personality for conservatives, asked her point blank if she believed such a theory.
Hear The Full Audio Of Glen Beck asking Texas Gov hopeful Debra Medina about 9/11 Truthers... AUDIO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/glenn-beck-slams-tea-parties-debra-medina-on-9-11-truthers-the-audio/Glenn Beck slams Debra Medina for not disavowing 9-11 truthers
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The Tea Party sprang to life in response to the financial crash that sent our economy into a tailspin. Until recently, it balanced two tendencies: hatred of big government and hatred of Wall Street. The combination (in the form of the bailouts and stimulus programs) provided a perfect target as economic hardship hit millions on Main Street.
But as the Tea Party becomes more structured and holds conventions like the one this past weekend featuring Sarah Palin, you can see its economic populism slipping away. Sure, there will be attacks against Wall Street's privileged, but those are for show, not substance. Increasingly it is all about the bedrock conservative principles: smaller government, fewer taxes and a strong military. Jobs and Wall Street will become secondary issues even though millions of grassroots Tea Partygoers are still motivated deeply by these concerns.
Of course this is terrific news for Wall Street which has just awarded itself $150 billion in record bonuses while more than 28 million Americans are without jobs or forced into part-time work.
You won't hear the Tea Partyites calling for a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency or windfall profits taxes on bonuses. Instead they will rant about government interference in the economy and high taxes.
I mean, you can't make this up. Wall Street goes on a gambling spree, wins big, and then crashes the economy. The federal government bails out the elites. Then Wall Street -- still on the government dole -- makes record profits and bonuses. And just when efforts for financial reforms inch forward in Congress, a grassroots movement emerges against government regulation and taxes, including those on Wall Street.
The underlying anger about the crash, the giveaways to Wall Street and the lack of jobs are still there. The means the field is open for a progressive populist movement. But where is it?
There are some progressive financial reform groups pressuring Congress to enact good legislation. There have even been a couple of mobilizations at banker meetings and at Ben Bernanke's house. But overall, progressives have been AWOL when it comes to building a mass-based populist movement or anything close to it. (Except in Oregon: see "Watch out Tea Party, Progressive Anger is Alive and Well" )
Why is that?
Here's what I've heard from progressives: We're too old, too comfortable, too hooked on the Internet, too invested in the stock market, too invested in Obama, too demoralized; that the activists among us are too close to the Democrats, too far from the grassroots, too concentrated on health care reform, too concentrated on global warming, too besieged by other issues like racism, gay and lesbian rights, abortion rights, union survival, and on and on. You'd think that being a progressive activist was a liability rather than a major plus during this upheaval.(con't)The Tea Party sprang to life in response to the financial crash that sent our economy... more
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Sarah Palin Tells Tea Party U.S. Ready for ‘Another Revolution’
By John McCormick
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Sarah Palin, a hero amid the leaderless Tea Party movement, told hundreds of fans at the group’s inaugural national convention that their efforts will empower voters and change America.
“I am a big supporter of this movement,” Palin said. “America is ready for another revolution.”
For the Full VIDEO of Sarah Palins Speech.....http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/sarah-palin-tells-tea-party-u-s-ready-for-%E2%80%98another-revolution%E2%80%99-video-hitting-obama-talking-national-security/
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice- presidential nominee said the current Democratic administration can no longer blame the previous one for the nation’s ills.
“It’s been a year now,” she said. “They own this now, and voters are going to hold them accountable.”Sarah Palin Tells Tea Party U.S. Ready for ‘Another Revolution’
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Today at the National Teaparty Convention former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, told an audience at the convention carried on C-SPAN that the Teaparty movement is a formidable force in American politics. She said that the GOP would do well to incorporate the movement lest it becomes a third party that could challenge the status quo. She also said that America needs to return to the good old days when it was a god fearing nation where people look to divine intervention for much needed security. She said that many Blue Dog Democrats are even looking under the hood of the Teapart movement and that they must be thinking that they need to take a serious look at this movement and not be left behind by the movement.
To cheers from the audience chanting "Run Sarah Run" over and over, Sarah is asked if she has any plans to run again. She states that the Teaparty movement is "the future of politics in this country, and I am proud to be part of it."Today at the National Teaparty Convention former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, told... more
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he problem with a leaderless movement is that everyone wants to be heard, and there's only so much oxygen in the room.
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Although local Tea Party groups might continue to thrive, coming together on a national level might exceed the expertise of these political neophytes.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20100203_7882.phphe problem with a leaderless movement is that everyone wants to be heard, and... more
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Though the tea party movement has attracted criticism for its supposed lack of diversity, minority activists who are involved say the movement has little to do with race, and that it is attracting a more diverse crowd every day.
For the Full Story on Racist Black Conservatives....and the Tea Party Movement...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/racist-black-conservatives-take-lead-role-in-tea-party-movement-read-this/
Lloyd Marcus’ conservatism started when he was 9.
His family had just moved out of the “ghetto” to a brand-new high rise in Baltimore — within months, he said, the “dream come true” turned into a nightmare, as the building of welfare-collecting black residents became a den of crime.Though the tea party movement has attracted criticism for its supposed lack of... more
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The Tea Party movement is supposed to be all about keeping the government out of your business. But if some California members get their way, the state will force public schoolchildren to sing Christmas carols.
It's called the "Freedom to Present Christmas Music in Public School Classrooms or Assemblies" initiative.
Merry Hyatt, a substitute teacher and member of the Redding Tea Party Patriots, is behind the push. The Redding Searchlight reports:
The initiative would require schools to provide children the opportunity to listen to or perform Christmas carols, and would subject the schools to litigation if the rule isn't followed.
Schools currently are allowed to offer Christmas music as long as it is used for academic purposes rather than devotional purposes and isn't used to promote a particular religious belief, according to an analysis by the California Legislative Analyst's Office.
Parents are allowed to have their students opt out of the caroling if they express that desire in advance.
"We were having Christmas without Jesus," Hyatt complained of her previous school district.
The initiative has the support of the local Tea Party Patriots president.
"Bottom line is Christmas is about Christmas," said Erin Ryan, president of the Redding Tea Party Patriots. "That's why we have it. It's not about winter solstice or Kwanzaa. It's like, 'Wow you guys, it's called Christmas for a reason.' "
So much for limited government?The Tea Party movement is supposed to be all about keeping the government out of your... more
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