Tag: Tea Baggers

The Castle Purging Begins on Saturday

Filed in National by on November 5, 2009 41 Comments

Apparently there is a Tea Party this Saturday in Dover. I guess that it is being advertised on Stormfront or wherever those people get together online. Last time they did this, there was a minor bruhaha about Tea Party barfly, Mike Protack and his demand for top billing. This time, an actual candidate for an actual office is speaking.

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Voter Intimidation In NY-23

Filed in National by on November 3, 2009 13 Comments

Haven’t we seen the rhetoric from the right wing fringe getting more and more violent. I hope violence isn’t inevitable but I’ll bet you’re not surprised to hear that Hoffman supporters have been intimidating voters in NY-23: I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police […]

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Tea For One

Filed in National by on October 19, 2009 4 Comments

Things are getting crazier out there.  And Paul Baumbach asks a great question. What effect will conservative tea-party activists have on the GOP? Well… given the increase in criticism from some big names in the party, I’d say the GOP is concerned.  Check out the latest blow-up. Via Think Progress: Ziegler attended the Western Conservative […]

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Where Cries of Socialism Meet Racism

Filed in International, National by on October 19, 2009 8 Comments

Christopher J. Lee, assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has an interesting op-ed piece in the Christian Science Monitor looking at the racist undertones of the rightwing shouts of socialism. Yet, as seen at various town hall meetings and the Tea Party rally in Washington Sept. 12, a deeper sign […]

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