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If Only We Had a Real Tea Party
 If Only We Had a Real Tea Party 
Thomas Friedman
Sep 29, 2010 11:27 AM CDT

If Only We Had a Real Tea Party

The current one is more like a tea kettle

(Newser) - The Tea Party movement you hear so much about on the news “is what I’d actually call the ‘Tea Kettle movement,’” writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times , “because all it’s doing is letting off steam.” It has real energy, and...

O'Donnell Fudged Calif. University Credential, Too

Claremont Graduate University has no record of her

(Newser) - Oxford isn't the only school Delaware senate candidate Christine O'Donnell didn't attend, no matter how many times she might say that she did. "Claremont Graduate University has no student or education record for an individual named Christine O'Donnell," says a unequivocal statement from the school in answer to...

Christine O'Donnell Fudges Claim About Oxford

She didn't attend, but she did take a course in a building owned by the university

(Newser) - Christine O'Donnell seems to have falsely embellished her education record on her LinkedIn bio, reports the Plum Line blog of the Washington Post . The bio says she attended Oxford and studied Post-Modernism in the New Millennium, "but it turns out that was just a course conducted by an institution...

Carl Paladino Still Must Explain His Racist Emails

Bob Herbert: New Yorkers deserve to hear much more about his views

(Newser) - Carl Paladino's camp has dismissed the controversy over his forwarding of racist, sexist, and pornographic emails as "bad judgment." Not nearly good enough, writes Bob Herbert at the New York Times . After all, the man is running for New York governor, and "the images and videos are...

Video Shows Tea Partiers How to Rip Up Koran

'Just like Sam Adams,' says Randall Terry

(Newser) - Anti-abortionist Randall Terry has unleashed a video primer to fellow Tea Party activists on how to make news by ripping up giant passages from the Koran at press conferences. He even directs wannabe newsmakers to his website , where anyone interested can download passages of the Muslim holy book. "You're...

Deficit Chickens Coming Home to Roost

...for both parties

(Newser) - The deficit rage we’re seeing ahead of the midterm elections is a “strange and wonderful thing, about the only thing that gives me hope that our country may yet escape ruin,” writes venture capitalist Bill Frezza for Real Clear Markets . Until now, elections have always hinged on...

Rick Lazio Drops Third Party Bid for NY Governor

Conservative Party to endorse Carl Paladino

(Newser) - Rick Lazio has dropped his Conservative Party bid for New York governor, the New York Times reports. Republican officials had been pressuring Lazio, their original pick to top their ticket, to remove his name from the ballot ever since his defeat at the hands of tea partier Carl Paladino in...

Christine O'Donnell: 'Evolution Is a Myth'

'Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?' she asks

(Newser) - Today on myth-busting with Christine O'Donnell : Evolution! Keeping his promise to air an embarrassing clip of the tea party favorite every week until she agrees to come on his show, Bill Maher dug up a 1998 interview in which O'Donnell denies the plausibility of evolution. Here's a sample : O'DONNELL: "...

Republicans Are Cannibals? It's Offensive to Cannibals
Republicans Are Cannibals?
It's Offensive to Cannibals
Dana Milbank
Sep 25, 2010 10:24 AM CDT

Republicans Are Cannibals? It's Offensive to Cannibals

Dana Milbank: The Donner Party had more tact

(Newser) - Dana Milbank thinks DNC chief Tim Kaine should apologize for likening the GOP and the Tea Party to the Donner Party. "Comparing Republicans to cannibals is deeply offensive," he writes in the Washington Post . "To the cannibals." For one thing, the Donners (and Milbank says he's...

O'Donnell: I'll Stop the Whole Country From Having Sex

Another day, another old video

(Newser) - Another old video of Christine O'Donnell is getting buzzed about today after Greg Sargent wrote about it at his Plum Line blog . In the 2003 clip, O'Donnell is in a TV debate on teenage sex, when a critic disagrees with her strategy of abstinence. "You're going to stop the...

Sorry, Tea Partiers, You Don't Get All the Founders

Washington, Hamilton would have hated you

(Newser) - The Tea Party loves to claim solidarity with the founding fathers, as though they’d all endorse the current Republican agenda. (Remember this craziness ?) Well, not so fast, says historian Ron Chernow. “The truth is that the disputatious founders—who were revolutionaries, not choir boys—seldom agreed about...

'GOP Civil War' Is a Media Invention
 'GOP Civil War' 
 Is a Media 
 Invention 
Jonah Goldberg
Sep 21, 2010 1:44 PM CDT

'GOP Civil War' Is a Media Invention

Really, everybody's fine with the tea paries

(Newser) - You may have heard about the alleged “civil war” going on between the Republican party establishment and those tea party upstarts. Well, don’t believe a word of it. The media loves a fight, but “it takes two to tango, and it takes two to fight a civil...

Cuomo Fumes Over 'A**hole' Tea Partier

Political scion not entirely sure how to fight wacky Carl Paladino

(Newser) - Andrew Cuomo isn’t exactly sure how to fight back against his Tea Party opponent Carl Paladino, who yesterday sent out a letter less-than-subtly questioning his manhood . “If a guy says you have no cojones, how do you punch him back, call him an asshole?” Cuomo fumed in a...

Jon Stewart: GOP Is the Tea Party

Battle for party's soul is won, says Daily Show host

(Newser) - With Karl Rove having fallen into line after some pressure from Sarah Palin and endorsed Christine O'Donnell , it's time to stop talking about the Tea Party movement as "a battle for the Republican Party's soul," argues Jon Stewart. The Tea Partiers are, at heart, conservative Republicans and they've...

White House Blasts New York Times Report


 White House Blasts 
 New York Times Report 
NOT LINKING GOP, TEA PARTY
Sep 20, 2010 11:35 AM CDT

White House Blasts New York Times Report

Calls it '100% wrong'

(Newser) - The White House is fighting hard against this New York Times report , which claims that President Obama's advisers are considering an ad blitz linking the GOP to the Tea Party. “The Times is just flat-out, 100% wrong,” a White House official tells Politico . “The first time Obama’...

Beck to Michelle: 'Get Away From My French Fries'

He mocks anti-obesity efforts, has crude suggestion for carrot stick

(Newser) - Glenn Beck rallied the right at an event in Illinois over the weekend, invoking God, the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson—and deep fried potatoes. Speaking to a crowd of some 300, Beck mocked Michelle Obama's healthy heating campaign , reports the Chicago Sun Times . "Get away from my french fries,...

The Rich Are Mad as Hell, and Getting Away With It

Wealthy dodge modest tax hikes while everyone else suffers

(Newser) - “Anger is sweeping America,” Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times , and no, “I’m not talking about the Tea Partiers. I’m talking about the rich.” Although the recession has taken homes and jobs away from millions of poor Americans, “real political rage”...

Joe Miller: Jobless Benefits Unconstitutional

'Show me the enumerated power,' says Senate candidate

(Newser) - It seems Palin-backed GOP Alaska Senate hopeful Joe Miller is sticking with his anti-benefits stance, big time. The Tea Party favorite yesterday told Fox News' Chris Wallace that jobless benefits are unconstitutional, reports the Raw Story . "The Constitution provides enumerated powers," he said. "Show me the enumerated...

Obama Advisers Consider Ad Blitz Against Tea Party

National campaign would portray Republicans as radicals

(Newser) - All these Tea Party victories have given Democratic strategists an idea for a national ad campaign with a simple theme: Don't let Republicans take control, because these people are nuts. President Obama's advisers are considering just such an ad blitz, reports the New York Times . The idea is to scare...

GOP Bluebloods Should Stop Bashing Tea Party

Classim isn't helping their case, Glenn Greenwald says

(Newser) - The Republican Old Guard should stop dissing less pedigreed newcomers who share their far-right views, argues Glenn Greenwald on Salon . The radical "commonsense conservatism" espoused by the likes of Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell is not much different than the Bush doctrine, yet Karl Rove feels it necessary to...

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