Tea Partiers

WATCH: Tea Party Says Hooray For Death?

Posted 11.13.2011

Having political, ideological or philosophical differences aside, generally, we tend to think of Americans as the kind of folk who don't applaud death...

WATCH: The Tea Party Debate In 75 Seconds

Posted 11.13.2011

If you missed Monday night's CNN Tea Party Debate, not to worry. BuzzFeed has taken the nearly two hour debate and squeezed it into a 75 second highli...

Friday Talking Points [163] -- The Ads Just Write Themselves

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.15.2011

Chris Weigant

Something the media largely missed in the midst of multiple budgetary battles this week was the fact that this is what bipartisanship looks like.

Elise Foley

Freshman Republicans To Protest At Senate Over Shutdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.30.2011

WASHINGTON -- With nine days remaining until government funding expires, House Republican freshmen announced today they plan to rally on the steps of ...

Kids Last?

David Kirp | Posted 05.25.2011

David Kirp

To describe the lawmakers' behavior as malign neglect is understating the matter. Smart investments in kids pay off big.

Stupid Politics From a Smart Administration

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Joseph A. Palermo

The Democratic Party lost its spine the moment it decided to cash in on corporate political money. If we don't reverse Citizens United and get the money out of our political system, progressive causes don't stand a chance.

The Tea Party Is the GOP's Problem

Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

Will Marshall

In backing challenges to GOP moderates, the Tea Party looks like a looking-glass version of the "netroots" progressives who backed Howard Dean in 2004 and Ned Lamont's primary challenge to Sen. Joe Lieberman.

O'Donnell and Gays: What Kind of Hypocrite Is She?

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Olmsted

Right-wingers want it both ways on a whole bunch of issues. They want to claim they love their gay relatives, yet support every kind of legislation that would deny them equal rights.

Invite a Tea Partier to Tea

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos

We may soon find ourselves mourning more of our population as they fall victim to the accidents and mishaps caused by inadequate infrastructure maintenance and repairs.

The F Word: Fight Tea Party Voters With Fresh Voters

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Laura Flanders

Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more...

Tea Party's GOP Hostile Takeover Continues

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Yesterday's results really only showed one thing with any clarity -- Sarah Palin is definitely going to run for president.

GOP Rep, Candidate Agree To Closed-Door Meeting With Tea Party

Think Progress | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

On Monday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) went on MSNBC and hit Democrats for going into "hiding" this summer, implying that they weren't planning to peak wi...

Black Tea Party Leaders Accuse Obama Of Racism: 'Democrats Have Re-Enslaved America'

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Black members of the tea party movement on Wednesday rejected charges that the group's activists are racist, saying they oppose Pre...

A True Populist Revolt in Bell: And It's Not the Tea Partiers

Mona Gable | Posted 05.25.2011

Mona Gable

Compared to the inane rantings of the Tea Partiers we've been hearing, the citizens of Bell actually had legitimate complaints. Bell's top officials were paying themselves like bankers.

Ramblings of a 'Fake American'

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011

Dorian de Wind

When Republicans question Democrats' patriotism, they are discrediting themselves and demeaning and dangerously dividing the Real America they profess to honor and love.

A Question for the GOP & Tea Partiers: Should We Abolish (or Severely Weaken) the FDA?

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Abrams

If congressional Republicans opposed the PPCA (i.e., health care reform) because it is an imposition on liberty and the free market, what must they think about the powers of the FDA, which regulates 30% of the economy?

Jason Linkins

Washington Times Compares 'Tea-Bagger' To N-Word

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

This "Inside the Beltway" column from Jennifer Harper in the Washington Times begins, "The term 'tea-bagger' is like uttering the 'n' word, some say." Oh, really? Well, "some people" are wrong!

Obama Poll Watch -- April, 2010

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Obama seems to have hit a plateau in his approval ratings, which have remained largely unchanged for the past three months. Could it be that we've all just made up our minds about the job the president is doing?

Tea Partiers In Tax Day Protests Try To Explain Why They're Against Obama (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

***UPDATE*** The Washington Post's Dave Weigel interviews Chase Whiteside, the man conducting the interviews. A correspondent for New Left Media v...

Mario Cantone: Tea Partiers Are 'Retarded'

Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011

This week, HuffPost Comedy got a chance to sit down with Mario Cantone and talk about the tea party, Betty White, and Larry King's rekindled romance. ...

Come, Tea Partiers and Liberals - Let Us Reason Together

Religion News Service | TOM EHRICH | Posted 05.25.2011

By Tom Ehrich Religion News Service (RNS) Even though Tea Party activists probably distrust liberals like myself, I'd like to "reach across the aisle...

Tea Party ending tour in capital it loves to hate

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against "gangster government" and appeals from Republicans seeking t...

The F Word: Tax Grousing Tells Half The Story

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Laura Flanders

It's tax time again, the time of year when Americans grouse about forking over part of their hard-earned cash to the dear old government. These days,...

Republican War Against the American People: "We Will Allow Total Economic Collapse"

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Abrams

Republican Congressional leadership confirmed that they oppose financial reform and that they oppose breaking up the big banks. That, my friends, is a Republican Declaration of War against the American people

Jason Linkins

Fox News Publishes Semi-Critical Article On Tea Party Participants

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

The Internet is buzzing about a recently-published article describing the denizens of the Tea Party movement as a collective of gaping-eyed loons. What makes this recent discursive so exciting is that it comes from Fox News.