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How O'Donnell's Victory Will Realign the Republican Party
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- Delaware Tea Party insurgent Christine O'Donnell stunned the Republican Party establishment Tuesday night with her Senate primary win over U.S. Rep. Mike Castle. She's widely seen as a weaker candidate for the general election, which will diminish the GOP's chances of taking over the Senate. Nevertheless, her victory speaks to the strength of Sarah Palin and the tea party, which endorsed her candidacy. Political pundits are forecasting a new power shift in the Republican hierarchy: Tea Party Mentality Will Take Over the GOP, writes Ezra Klein at The Washington Post: ...
Would Shirley Sherrod's Full NAACP Speech Give a Different Impression?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 20) -- In the ongoing war over who is more racist -- the NAACP or the tea party -- the right has delivered a blow with revealing footage of a black USDA official, Shirley Sherrod, speaking at an NAACP conference and admitting to doing less than she could have to help a white farmer. On Monday, Sherrod resigned. But she also sought to clarify the record, and her version jibes with the fact that the footage released by the website Big Government was cut off at just about the point where it appeared Sherrod was beginning to disown her own prejudice. She was starting to say how class ...
The Problem With Rand Paul's Senate Tea Party Caucus Plan
By Byron Tau - AOL News(July 19) -- Kentucky GOP Senate candidate and tea party darling Rand Paul has said that he wants to form a tea party caucus of like-minded senators if he's elected in November. There's just one potential problem: Caucuses are administered under House of Representatives rules and must have a member of the House as an officer. Only one Senate caucus exists at all -- and it was formerly a Senate commission that became a caucus under a special rule in 1985. Congressional caucuses, also known as congressional member organizations (CMOs), are groups of like-minded members of Congress united by a ...
Rand Paul Under Fire For Views on Civil Rights Act
By David Sessions - Politics DailyRand Paul, the son of Texas congressman Ron Paul and the newly minted Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky, came under fire this week from Democrats and others after media appearances where he refused to fully embrace the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that legally ended segregation in the United States. Paul defeated Republican opponent Trey Grayson on Tuesday. During his victory speech, Paul said he was bringing a "message from the Tea Party," which expected him to "take our government back." Controversy broke out after Paul was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" ...
Rand Paul Credits Tea Party for GOP Senate Nomination in Kentucky
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIntroducing her husband, Rand Paul, at the final rally of his insurgent primary campaign for the Kentucky GOP Senate nomination, Kelley Paul declared: "When Rand said last year that he wanted to run, I wasn't too enthusiastic at first. And one of the ways he talked me into it was telling me that he had less than a 10 percent chance of actually winning." Her reminiscence prompted a burst of laughter from the hometown crowd in Bowling Green. But, actually, the tote board among Kentucky political insiders would have put the odds even lower that the 47-year-old eye surgeon (and the son of 2008 ...
Rand Paul Appears Headed for Victory in Tuesday's Kentucky Senate Primary
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAs next week's Kentucky senate primary nears, Rand Paul continues to hold a double digit lead over Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the GOP race while, on the Democratic side, Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo and Attorney General Jack Conway are almost evenly tied, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted May 9-11. Paul, the insurgent favorite of conservative and Tea Party activists, leads Grayson, who has spent his political career working up through the party ranks, by 49 percent to 33 percent with three other candidates splitting 7 percent and 11 percent undecided. Paul leads Grayson by 18 points ...
Labor, Civil Rights Groups Will Rally in D.C. to Push Back on Tea Party
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe NAACP and several labor unions will rally in Washington this fall to push for new jobs and to give a voice to working class Americans who say the conservative Tea Party movement doesn't represent their views. "It's very annoying to see the Tea Party folks on television all the time as if they're speaking for working people, while all they're doing is divide working people and push our agenda back, both racially and economically," George Gresham, a march organizer and local member of the Service Employees International Union, told The New York Times. "It is annoying that some people treat ...
Six of 10 Say Tea Party Support for a Candidate Makes No Difference
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFifty-nine percent of Americans say Tea Party movement support for a congressional candidate wouldn't make much difference in their voting decision, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted April 22-25. Twenty-three percent say they would be more likely to oppose a Tea Party-favored candidate while 14 percent said they would be more likely to support him or her. Forty-three percent say the more they hear about the Tea Party movement the less they like it, while 34 percent say the more they hear the more they like it. Eight percent answer "neither," 11 percent haven't heard about ...
Opinion: A Modest Proposal for Anti-Government Crowd
By not in system - AOL News(April 19) -- Anger with government is the theme on the right these days, with anguished cries by tea partiers, militia members and other government haters of "We're taking our country back." This is quite amusing, as it would be curious to find out: From whom do they think they are recapturing "their" country? And what are they going to do with it when they get it? (Well, we know the answer to that: The last time they had it, they ruined it.) It would seem the only group who has the right to say they're taking the country back would be Native Americans. After all, it was Whitey who stole it ...
At the Tea Party Rally: Obama 'the Communist'
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIn the time-honored tradition of protest groups, the Tea Party movement simultaneously revels in its anti-establishment grassroots pedigree and longs for mainstream political acceptance. Both strands of the movement were on display Thursday during the latest Tea Party invasion of Washington (aka Sodom) as anti-big-government protesters roared their defiance on income tax deadline day. At least a few thousand raucous Tea Partiers did at a noon rally on an over-sized traffic island in downtown Washington grandly known as Freedom Plaza, located a few bullhorn shouts from the White House. But ...
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