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Treasury Tries To Bail Out Public Image Of Bailout

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department is worried that the high political cost of some of its key economic intervention programs -- most notably, the b...

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The Accidental Truth-Teller: Glenn Beck, the Tea Party and Race

Will Bunch | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Tarp, Theodore Roosevelt, Tea Party Movement, Wall Street, Rick Santelli, Andrew Napolitano, Occupy Wall Street, Racism, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Bank Bailout, Fox Business Network, Barack Obama, Media News

Whatever his reason, the idea that Beck re-injected into the national conversation -- that race and the Tea Party are linked -- is an important one.

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Tea Party Senate Candidate Not Quite Sure How The Tea Party Started

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, 2012 Speculatron, Video, 2012 Election, Indiana Senate 2012, Indiana, Mitch Daniels, Elections 2012, Richard Mourdock, Rick Santelli, Tea Party, 2012, Richard Lugar, Politics News

One of the more interesting downticket races to watch is the GOP's 2012 primary for the Indiana Senate, where six-term incumbent Richard Lugar is faci...

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By Not Challenging the Tea Party, the White House Makes It Stronger

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Real Estate Market, Foreclosures, Tom Lehrer, Tea Party, Celinda Lake, Mortgage Relief, Jared Bernstein, Underwater Homes, Housing Prices, Rick Santelli, Homeowners, Bobby Womack, Obama Administration, Barack Obama, Politics News

This country is discouraged, angry, and frightened. That's the mood that the Tea Party has successfully tapped.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Municipal Workers

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

I cannot believe that in the 21st Century we are having this kind of a debate on the role of labor unions in this country. But I suppose it isn't surprising since we have entered a new Gilded Age.

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Joe Scarborough Slams Rick Santelli For Comparing Wisconsin Protests To 9/11

Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe Scarborough criticized Rick Santelli, his NBC colleague, for comparing the Wisconsin protests to the 9/11 attacks. On Monday's "Morning Joe," S...

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The State of Union Address President Obama Should Have Given

David Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

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This might be the time to face some hard truths. And the hard truth is that inequality is economically as well as socially harmful.

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The Media Has Failed Us

Steven Bulwa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rick Santelli, Fox News, Financial Media, Bulwa Tech Report, Steven Bulwa, Business News

Financial media is not helping us become better informed or better investors. These outlets devote too much of their airtime to forwarding partisan propaganda rather than informing or entertaining us.

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Tea Party Republicans Should Tackle Federal Role in Distorting Markets and Causing Bubbles.

David Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Centcom, Mitch McConnell, Cbo, Social Security, Oil Imports, Jim Demint, John Boehner, Economic Crisis, Leverage, Energy Policy, Pharmaceutical Industry, Rand Paul, Jimmy Carter, Rick Santelli, Medicare, Defense Spending, Tea Party, Free Markets, Politics News

It did not take long for the conflicts to emerge as Republicans struggle to make good on their commitments to reduce federal spending. In the wake of ...

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Hey George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, What Was Plan B?

Mike Hegedus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Sharon Angle, Rand Paul, George Washington, Jerry Brown, Harry Reid, Rick Santelli, Mccain, Thomas Jefferson, Russ Fiengold, Barack Obama, Ben Franklin, Politics News

The popular definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same action over and over again expecting a different result. Tuesday's mid-term elections...

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WATCH: Matthews, Olbermann Mock Rick Santelli

Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann mocked Rick Santelli, the commentator from MSNBC's financial sister station CNBC who many credit with launching the...

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Republicans Slam Chilean Miners: "They Should Have Climbed Up on Their Own"

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chilean Miners, Tea Party, Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, President Pinera, Rick Santelli, The Koch Boys, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Augusto Pinochet, Sarah Palin, Comedy News

Glen Beck warned Chile that government rescuing the miners promoted social justice, the evil worm that has eaten at the fabric of American society since the days of Teddy Roosevelt.

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Citizens United -- Game Changer

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Tea Party, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama, Antonin Scalia, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, Corporate Power, Citizens United, Crossroads GPS, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Rahm Emanuel, David Brooks, David Axelrod, American Future Fund, Political Corruption, Dred Scott, Bruce Rastetter, Chamber of Commerce, Anthony Kennedy, Republican Party, Ed Gillespie, Franklin Roosevelt, Rick Santelli, Politics News

We can't really predict what will happen on November 2. All we know is that the historical trends are pushing against the Democrats, and that Citizens United has definitively tipped the scales in favor of the oligarchy.

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Why Do Liberal Attacks on the Tea Party Echo Attacks on Liberals?

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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"We want our country back," was criticized as a secretly coded response to the election of the first black president. Yet the same phrase was, as politicos may recall, a popular slogan among liberals after Bush's election.

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CNBC's Santelli: Tea Party Rant 'Best 5 Minutes Of My Life'

Posted 05.25.2011

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CNBC's Rick Santelli is claiming that his infamous rant on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange that started the Tea Party movement was the be...

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Listen All Y'all, It's a Republican Sabotage

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

The Republicans are willing to let one out of every ten of your friends go broke in the name of foiling the president and reclaiming control over the government (which they say they hate). Think about that.

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CNBC's Rick Santelli: "STOP SPENDING!" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

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CNBC anchor Rick Santelli -- notorious for his on-air rants -- went on another tirade earlier this week and had one message for the government: stop s...

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Why the Tea Party Is a Fraud

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's hard to conclude that the Tea Party movement is anything but a fraud given the vast disconnect between the movement's supposed principles and the targets of their intense anger since their inception.

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CNBC Panel Freaks Out At The Suggestion That Predatory Lending Happened At Any Time Ever (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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CJR's Ryan Chittum posts this great video of CNBC anchor-droids just straight up losing their minds the moment Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli S...

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CNBC Protects Bad Guys Who Took Huge Bailouts from Taxpayers

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

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CNBC acts as if over-borrowing by U.S. consumers created a global financial crisis. This myth protects Wall Street banks.

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Palin Trumps Obama - On a Trojan Horse Filled With Bankers

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Tea Party plan is simple: Use anti-bank rage to help the Republicans win, so they can give banks even more power. Can the banksters really outsmart the Democrats and pull off a trick like that?

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Anatomy of the Tea Party Movement: Sam Adams Alliance

Alex Brant-Zawadzki | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Sam Adams Alliance has its origins in the libertarian group Americans for Limited Government. It is behind much of the Tea Party movement.

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Why Obama Won't Do What's Needed to Deal With the Mortgage Crisis

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011

In places like Phoenix, 54% of homeowners with mortgages have negative equity. That's about half a million underwater mortgages, more than the combined totals in Texas and New York state, where 10 times as many people live.

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don't tell me that nontroversy doesn't matter. With nearly as many Americans approving of Palin as Obama, nontroversy really, really matters.

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Tempest in a Teabag: Tea Party Founder Announces He's (Re)Joining GOP

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party, Mark Sanford, Dick Armey, Jo-Ann Davidson, Rick Santelli, Grover Norquist, Politics News

Odom has consistently taken controversial public stances against Republican candidates, often accusing them of not being conservative enough.

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