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Tensions are arising between the Washington based Tea Party groups and local Tea Party activists who envision their own groups as being among Washington adversaries. The New York Times reports that “The still-emerging Tea Party movement is not merely waging war against the Republican establishment this year. Some of its more heated disputes are coming […]
Here is a great scene from Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom“. Sorkin draws a brilliant parallel between the Tea Party takeover, and the progressive hippie movement in the 1960’s. Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) explains to his boss, Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) why he and the rest of his fellow moderate republicans are getting hijacked by the […]
A Tea Party member decided to pick a fight with the President of Ireland. It didn’t go so well. Leave it to the Irish to teach their American cousins a thing or two about the ancient art of intelligent debate with an unarmed opponent. This is a great time to look back at a 2010 […]
Bill Maher and his roundtable guests – Michael Moore, Richard Dawkins, Valerie Plame, Rev. Al Sharpton and Maajib Nawaz – discuss the death of the Tea Party, Al-Qaeda, and the chances at having a president who is an atheist. “What is the end game for the Tea Party if they can’t ever win the presidency? […]
“The Republican Party is at war with itself. And as tempting as it might be for Democrats to gloat from the sidelines, it is in all of our best interests… to make sure the Tea Party doesn’t win.” ~Jon Favreau, Former Obama Speech writer writing in The Daily Beast. Tea Party darling, Renee Ellmers, faces […]