Tea Parties

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Published: 10/28/10

Tea Party Candidates: Catch Us If You Can

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Published: 10/20/10

Counting on Independent Voters? Careful What You Wish For

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Published: 09/25/10

Opinion: A Tea Party Warning for Conservatives

By not in system - AOL News

(Sept. 24) -- While some view the Tea Party as a continuation of the Ross Perot movement, it may be better understood as the third wave of modern conservatism (the first being Barry Goldwater's victory over the GOP establishment in 1964, and the second being the rise of the Christian right in the late 1970s). ...

Published: 09/1/10

From a Lefty: Five Things the Right Is Doing Right

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

For nearly two years, the Democrats have controlled the House, the Senate, the presidency and two new judicial appointments to the Supreme Court. So why does it feel like the Democrats lost in 2008? I think it's because the Democrats have turned losing into an art form. You know how they say a good dancer makes it look easy? That's the Dems. They make winning look like losing, and losing look like the eternal hell-fires of damnation. The left could learn a few things from the right. To wit: 1) The right talks to average people. Even unabashed progressive Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) ...

Published: 08/9/10

Sarah Palin Endorsement: Aw, She Shouldn't Have

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Published: 08/5/10

Democrats Try to Turn the Tables on the Tea Party

By Paul Wachter - AOL News

(Aug. 5) -- Democrats are providing an interesting wrinkle to the tea party fever sweeping over Red State America. Just as tea partiers have pressed GOP candidates to announce their conservative bona fides, the Democrat National Committee is now challenging Republican office holders and candidates to declare their feelings about the tea party before the November midterm elections. For all the buzz about the tea party and polls showing high support for the movement's candidates, Democrats believe its principles are out of touch with mainstream America. The DNC today began sending letters ...

Published: 07/18/10

Obama = Hitler? Naw. Tea Party's Moving On

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Published: 07/4/10

Calvin Coolidge Has Become Hero to Tea Partiers

By not in system - AOL News

PLYMOUTH, Vt. (July 3) -- In the Vermont hamlet where Calvin Coolidge was born, folks will celebrate his star-spangled birthday the way they always do. A Vermont National Guard contingent and a color guard will gather at noon on the village green and walk down to the Plymouth Notch Cemetery, where Coolidge is buried, trailed by hundreds of people - Coolidge descendants, presidential history buffs and locals. There, Brig. Gen. Matthew McCoy will lay a wreath provided by the White House, a U.S. Army bugler will blow "Taps" and McCoy will lead the procession back up the road to the village, ...

Published: 06/23/10

Republicans to the Unemployed: You're Lazy

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

Salt, meet wound. Wound being unemployment, and salt being the suggestion that the worst economy since the Great Depression was created by its powerless victims -- the jobless. Republicans, do tell: If so many jobs are ripe for plucking, explain the five applicants for every job. (Down from six a few months ago. Oh joy.) Why would anyone believe unemployment is voluntary when there is so much evidence to the contrary? The answer is surprisingly simple: Because that belief makes them feel good. Life is not fair, we learned in childhood. Apparently we never got over it. The psychology term ...