Tea Party Civil War? Lawsuit, GOP Friction Splits Leaders
Some major cracks have emerged in the "Tea Party" movement's leadership. In October, Amy Kremer, a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patri...
Some major cracks have emerged in the "Tea Party" movement's leadership. In October, Amy Kremer, a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patri...
Dawn Teo | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Odom has consistently taken controversial public stances against Republican candidates, often accusing them of not being conservative enough.
Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The tea partiers are launching the revolution. This week. But will anyone actually show up? On Sunday, Rep. Michele Bachmann challenged viewers of Se...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) faced an eruption of rage from Tea Party activists at a town hall meeting Tuesday for his decision to work with Sen. John...
Politics Daily | David Sessions | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
The grassroots anti-tax, anti-government movement sweeping through Republicans nationwide is proving a thorn in the side of the national party as the ...
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Tea Party Patriots did not want to lose Amy Kremer. The Atlanta activist had co-founded the organization. She'd helped organize some of the biggest ev...
Adele Stan | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Marching has long been the province of the left. But the election of the nation's first African-American president, a moderate liberal, in a time of economic crisis, yielded right-wing leaders the gold of backlash.
Aemilia Scott | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago
Ah, death panel posters. Signs like this are the "Don't Stop Believing" of political slogans. Poorly written, fantasy-based, and yet somehow still a huge hit in the Midwest.
Glen McDaniel | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
A few days after a recent town hall meeting where Scott lectured some in the crowd for "highjacking" the healthcare debate, a large swastika was painted outside his Smyrna district office.
Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
This is not about the pros and cons of the health care debate. That's politics. This is about the ethics of a "debate" which has deteriorated into an Us vs. Them shouting match.
The Plum Line | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
On a private conference call, a group of top Tea Party and conservative organizers offered a surprisingly frank description of their goal, according t...
Suzanne Langlois | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
If patriotism is their private bailiwick, are those of us who truly believe that access to health care is the most basic of civil rights, unpatriotic?
HuffingtonPost.com | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Two "Hands Off My Health Care" buses have been making their way across the country as the central organizational tools for the conservative group Amer...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics