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As Shutdown Approaches, Congress Just Squabbles

Dems blame GOP-Tea Party divide, Cantor blames Dems, hilarity ensues

(Newser) - Negotiations between Democrats and Republicans are going so poorly that it’s looking more and more likely that the government will shut down when its current temporary funding measure expires April 8, the Wall Street Journal observes. Both sides spent yesterday criticizing each other, with Harry Reid blaming the lack...

Abolish IRS, Cut Medicare, Demands Fla. Congressman

Tea Party favorite Allen West goes after taxes, Social Security

(Newser) - It's time to abolish the IRS, eliminate federal income taxes, and cut back on Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment payments. That's the word from first-time Tea Party Florida Congressman Allen West. What should the US keep? Tax cuts for billionaires so they continue funding charities, says the Republican. He's also...

GOP Veterans Grow Frustrated With Tea Party Freshmen

Endless push for deeper and deeper cuts causes friction in party

(Newser) - The relentlessness of newly elected members of the House who have hamstrung the budget process nearly to the point of a government shutdown is wearing on some veteran GOP representatives, Politico reports. And many of them have the ear of Speaker John Boehner. Fifty-four Republican House members voted against the...

Sarah Palin Popularity Dropping in GOP

Still, she remains among the top Republican 2012 candidates

(Newser) - While Sarah Palin remains among the top potential GOP candidates for president in 2012, her popularity continues to take a serious hit, according to a new poll. Some 37% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents hold a negative view of her, which is a record high for Palin, according to the...

NPR Exec Caught in O'Keefe Sting Loses His Next Job

Ron Schiller will no longer be joining the Aspen Institute

(Newser) - The fallout from the conservative sting of NPR continues: The departing exec caught on tape calling Tea Party supporters racist is out of the job he was about to take, reports David Weigel at Slate . "Ron Schiller has informed us that, in light of the controversy surrounding his recent...

NPR's Vivian Schiller Resigns in Wake of O'Keefe Sting

President and CEO had also been criticized for Juan Williams' firing

(Newser) - Following yesterday’s news that an NPR fundraiser was taped calling the Tea Party “seriously racist,” NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned. Schiller was quick to condemn the comments, which were recorded as part of a sting by James O’Keefe , and the fundraiser in question...

Tea Partiers Harass Muslims at Charity Event

Video catches blogs' attentions

(Newser) - A truly disturbing video has surfaced of a protest last month targeting a Muslim charity event in Orange County, Calif. The Feb. 13 protest was organized by several conservative activist groups and attended by two US Congressmen, Ed Royce and Gary Miller, according to Jezebel . The “terrorist” event they...

Herman Cain Wins Tea Party Straw Poll

Georgian wins conference vote, Ron Paul sweeps online poll

(Newser) - Herman Cain—currently the only declared GOP candidate for 2012—came in first in a straw poll of Tea Party supporters at an event in Phoenix yesterday. The conservative radio host from Georgia received 22% of the on-site ballots cast at the event organized by the Tea Party Patriots, the...

Nine Batty Tea Party Bills
 Nine Batty 
 Tea Party Bills 
Feb 21, 2011 4:41 PM CST

Nine Batty Tea Party Bills

Tea Partiers are busy at the statehouse level

(Newser) - Tea Partiers are taking their fight to state halls around the country, and Justin Elliott over at Salon rounds up some of the more creative pieces of legislation they've put on the table. Without ado:
  • Yay, global warming: Montana not only wants to proclaim that global warming is a natural
...

'Tea Party Patriots' Starting to Look Like Lobbyists

Tea Partiers start to criticize major group

(Newser) - The Tea Party Patriots may have started out as a grass roots group, but a growing number of critics say the group is starting to look a lot more like a standard-issue Beltway lobbying outfit, according to an investigation from liberal site Mother Jones . The group has accepted large donations...

Tea Party Backs Rahm Rival
 Tea Party Backs Rahm Rival 
Feb 14, 2011 4:03 AM CST

Tea Party Backs Rahm Rival

But Chicago mayoral candidate Gery Chico is far from party line

(Newser) - A Tea Party revolution may be brewing in Barack Obama's very Democratic backyard. The local branch of the upstart party is backing a rival of former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in the fight to be Chicago mayor. But another mayoral candidate sees the endorsement of Democrat Gery...

What to Watch for at CPAC
 What to Watch 
 for at CPAC 
Feb 10, 2011 9:57 AM CST

What to Watch for at CPAC

Conservatives ready to rumble, test presidential waters

(Newser) - The Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off today, and it promises to be an interesting one, given the crossroads the movement finds itself at. Politico breaks down what to watch thusly:
  • The 2012 Presidential Race: Candidates will be test-driving their messages in what’s seen as the first big event
...

Rand Paul: GOP Not 'Brave Enough' to Make Big Cuts

Says deficit measures come before party loyalty

(Newser) - When it comes to the budget deficit, Sen. Rand Paul says fellow Republicans "aren't maybe yet brave enough to talk about the cuts to come.”" The new House GOP budget plan is "really not going to touch the problem," he told ABC News . While the...

71% Think GOP Should Listen to Tea Party
71% Think GOP Should
Listen to Tea Party
Poll Numbers
Jan 31, 2011 9:42 AM CST

71% Think GOP Should Listen to Tea Party

Including lots of Democrats who don't even like the movement

(Newser) - A whopping seven out of 10 Americans think it’s important that Republicans "consider Tea Party movement ideas" as they craft their policies, according to a new Gallup poll , and that includes plenty of Democrats who don’t even like the movement. While only 6% of Democrats are Tea...

Hundreds Protest Outside Koch Brothers' Retreat

Demonstrators blast billionaire conservatives' 'corporate greed'

(Newser) - Nearly a thousand protesters rallied against two major conservative backers at a California resort yesterday, slamming “corporate greed” as they chanted and waved signs. The Rancho Las Palmas resort was the site of a meeting of top conservatives held by the Koch brothers, who run the country’s second-biggest...

In Iowa, Sharron Angle Won't Rule Out 2012 Run

And she pleads with Iowans to invite her back to the state

(Newser) - Sharron Angle may have lost to Harry Reid in November, but the Tea Party fave hasn’t disappeared: She showed up at a Christian movie premiere in the oh-so-important state of Iowa last night, and she wouldn’t rule out a presidential bid. “I’ll just say I have...

Bachmann: 'Stop Spending Money We Don't Have'

Congresswoman says she's not competing with Paul Ryan

(Newser) - Michele Bachmann stuck to her Tea-Party-infused themes in delivering her response to President Obama's speech tonight—while taking pains to point out that hers wasn't intended to compete with Paul Ryan's official GOP response . (Read Bachmann's full text here from the National Journal.) The main charge: Under Obama, "...

Romney Keeps His Distance From Tea Party

Analysis: He's being Mr. Mainstream, but it's a risky strategy

(Newser) - Unlike the other big-name Republicans in the conversation for 2012, Mitt Romney is keeping a careful distance from the Tea Party, writes Matt Viser in the Boston Globe . There's still plenty of time for things to change, of course, but for now he's essentially freezing out representatives of the movement...

Tea Partiers: Textbooks Must Be Nicer to Founders

And omit criticisms based on 'minority experience,' says Tennessee group

(Newser) - Tennessee Tea Party activists met with lawmakers yesterday to demand the state make a number of changes—including “educating students the truth about America.” What does that grammatically suspect phrase mean? It means that they want textbooks to stop criticizing the founding fathers for their treatment of Native...

Fearful GOP Official Resigns After Tea Party Attacks

'I love the Republican Party but I don't want to take a bullet for anyone'

(Newser) - The tragedy in Tucson was the final straw for the embattled Republican Party chief of a Phoenix-area congressional district. Anthony Miller, a former campaign worker for John McCain, says he was the target of relentless attacks from Tea Party supporters and he feared the tension between Republican factions could lead...

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