Tea Party Begins To Wear Out Its GOP Welcome
The tea party may have won Republicans the House of Representatives in 2010. In 2012, it’s looking like it could help Democrats retain the White ...
The tea party may have won Republicans the House of Representatives in 2010. In 2012, it’s looking like it could help Democrats retain the White ...
McClatchy | David Lightman and William Douglas | Posted 04.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- Supporters of the tea party movement, the grass-roots conservatives who've been relentless in demanding tough, lean budgets, are rallyin...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 06.04.2011
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed on Sunday that GOP leaders, and particularly Speaker of the House John Boehner, were allowing themselves to ...
AP | By LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 05.31.2011
WASHINGTON -- The tea partyers who helped drive GOP gains in the last election are rallying in the city they love to hate Thursday, urging Republican ...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — GOP to tea party: Welcome to OUR party. Not so long ago, the Republican Party and its conservative base weren't sure what to make ...
McClatchy | David Lightman & William Douglas | Posted 05.25.2011
The grassroots tea party movement is eager to pressure lawmakers in the new 112th Congress to adopt its conservative views, but the Democratic-control...
The New York Times | Kate Zernike | Posted 05.25.2011
As Tea Party politicians prepare to take their seats when the 112th Congress convenes this week, they are already taking issue with Republicans for fa...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Social conservatives are hitting back Tuesday at a recently released letter by a coalition of Tea Party and gay Republican groups encouraging incoming...
Politico | Kenneth P. Vogel | Posted 05.25.2011
Emerging from its first election with a string of major victories - and two glaring defeats - leaders of the tea party movement wasted no time claimin...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011
AURORA, Colo. — Colorado Republicans are hosting a campaign tea party this fall, for better or worse. Or maybe for better and worse, in a jarri...
The Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten & Danny Yadron | Posted 05.25.2011
The tea party has emerged as a potent force in American politics and a center of gravity within the Republican Party, with a large majority of Republi...
Posted 05.25.2011
Big wins Tuesday night for the Tea Party in Delaware and New York have provided additional fodder against the contention of some that the Tea Party is...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Tea Party activists in Texas protested against Republican home state Sen. John Cornyn on Thursday to make clear they don't want him or the GOP establi...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Is the tea party the new Republican Party? The grass-roots network of fed-up conservative-libertarian voters displayed its power in...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's so...
The Washington Post | Michael Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011
In the normal course of events, political movements begin as intellectual arguments, often conducted for years in serious books and journals. To study...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011
ST. LOUIS — Vice President Joe Biden boldly predicted Friday that voters would reject a "Republican tea party" of extreme candidates and Democra...
USA Today | Kathy Kiely | Posted 05.25.2011
It's just the latest example of the GOP's Tea Party dilemma. In several high-profile races where the small-government activists have been a factor, st...
Politico | Kenneth P. Vogel | Posted 05.25.2011
The debate over the proposed mosque near ground zero, which has tied Democrats in knots, turns out to be just as tricky for their adversaries on the r...
Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011
GOP Rep. Bob Inglis slams Republican demagoguery, bemoans anti-Semitic tea party conspiracy nonsense, decries Sarah Palin's ignorance, and looks for a...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Tea Party-backed Senate candidates Sharron Angle and Rand Paul campaigned as outsiders during their primary election fights, but now they're acting a ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) rejected the idea that there was animosity between the Tea Party movement and the GOP in an interview on CNN Thursday,...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — In Kentucky, the Republican Senate candidate stumbles over a question on racial segregation. In Connecticut, the party's hopes rest...
Politico | KENNETH P. VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011
While tea party activists have described themselves as political free agents disgusted with both parties, a new poll by Quinnipiac University shows th...
Time | Posted 05.25.2011
The rapid rise of Tea Partyism has derailed much of the Democratic agenda in Washington, cuing a chorus of intramural recriminations and setting off a...
Washington Post | Aaron Blake | Posted 04.06.2012