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Tea Party Begins To Wear Out Its GOP Welcome

Washington Post | Aaron Blake | Posted 04.06.2012

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's Contradictory Embrace Of Rick Santorum

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...

Harry Reid: Boehner Afraid Of Tea Party

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 ...

Tea Party Rallies In City Activists Love To Hate To Send GOP Message On Spending

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 ...

CPAC 2011: Tea Party Welcomed By GOP

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 ...

Tea Party Hopes To Put Spine In GOP Lawmakers

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...

Tea Party Activists Take Issue With GOP Leaders As New Congress Begins

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...

Social Conservatives Spar With Tea Party Groups

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...

Tea Party Looks To Mount A Republican Party Makeover Following 2010 Midterm Races

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...

Tea Party Candidates Help And Hurt GOP

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...

Tea Party Movement Supported By 71% Of Republican Voters (POLL)

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...

What Is The Tea Party? Your Guide To The Movement

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...

Tea Party Activists Protest Against John Cornyn For Allegedly Meddling In Alaska Senate Primary

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...

Tea Party Becoming The New GOP?

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...

Democrats Look To Capitalize On GOP Civil War

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...

Michael Gerson: Tea Party Toxic For GOP

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...

Joe Biden: 'Republican Tea Party' Will Be REJECTED By Voters In November

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...

Some Failed Tea Party Candidates Not Willing To Back Victorious Opponents

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...

Ground Zero Mosque Debate Driving Wedge Between Tea Party, GOP

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...

Rep. Bob Inglis, Confessions Of A Tea Party Casualty

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...

Sharron Angle, Rand Paul To Washington: Tea Party-Backed Outsiders Seek Establishment Help

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 ...

Michelle Bachmann: Tea Party And GOP Are 'Merging'

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,...

Republican Senate Hopes Riding On The Tea Party

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...

POLL: Most Tea Partiers Identify With The GOP, Despite Claims Of Independence

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...

What Democrats And Republicans Have To Fear From The Tea Party Movement

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...