Tag: Tea Parties

Late Night Video — Tea Party Rally Fail

Filed in National by on April 17, 2011 4 Comments

The tejadis held rallies all over the US this weekend trying to rally their crazed and delusional troops into not seeing the political train wreck that is the Ryan Budget passed by the House last week.

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The Tea Party Effect Demonstrated

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 8 Comments

Yesterday was a day of congressional primaries in Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio. While I don’t care to go into details about each and every one (although if you do, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post has a good wrap-up), there is an over-riding trend that I do want to take note of. For the […]

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Fox News Gives Hannity A Public Spanking

Filed in National by on April 16, 2010 6 Comments

It’s hard to know where the line is with Fox News, but Sean Hannity must have crossed it: Angry Fox News executives ordered host Sean Hannity to abandon plans to broadcast his nightly show as part of a Tea Party rally in Cincinnati on Thursday after top executives learned that he was set to headline […]

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An Open Letter to the Tea Party

Filed in National by on April 15, 2010 83 Comments

Dear Tea Party Members and Sympathizers, Happy (or do I wish you an Angry?) Tax Day to you. Since you seem to have appropriated today as your holiday, I thought it would be a good opportunity to try to reach out to you. Despite what some may think, I consider myself to be a fairly intelligent and […]

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Now the Tea Partiers Want Their Own Army

Filed in National by on April 13, 2010 14 Comments

I’m sorry, but no good can come of this. From the great conservative state of Oklahoma, site of the largest domestic terrorist attack in US history, we get this story about a Tea Party umbrella group that is looking to form an official, state-approved militia. The scariest part is that this is not just some crazy […]

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The Tea Parties Are About Race

Filed in National by on April 9, 2010 30 Comments

I know you’re really shocked to hear this. This week sort of feels like a “I told you so” type of week. Two different incidents of unstable people threatening lawmakers because of radicalization over health care reform. Now we get some results of a new survey about people who support the Tea Party. A recent […]

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What Flavor Is Your Tea, Partiers?

Filed in National by on March 16, 2010 3 Comments

In the words of St. Ronnie, “Here they go again.” It seems that an alliance of Tea Party groups has descended upon Washington again, in a three-week “Take the Town Halls To Washington” rally. They’re protesting a government take-over, or Bolshevik revolution, or alien invasion, or some such thing. Oh, OK. Actually they’re trying a […]

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Tea Parties Organize To Take Control

Filed in National by on January 17, 2010 8 Comments

The one thing you have to give the Right credit is their ability to play the long game.  They are quite happy to chip away at policy they don’t like and seem to understand that baby steps are still, indeed, steps. Steve Benen lays it out, and we need to pay attention. The Tea Party […]

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I’m Having Trouble Seeing This Marriage End In Anything Other Than Divorce

Filed in National by on January 13, 2010 12 Comments

Cenk Uygar (the Seminal at Fire Dog Lake) has issued an invitation to tea parties. I issue a challenge to the tea-party movement. If you’re true to your word, and you believe in protecting the American people and principles, and you think government is too big and hands out money to the wrong people, then […]

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Some Tea Partiers Are Just Bad Spellers (and Racists)

Filed in National by on January 4, 2010 4 Comments

Remember this past summer, when we were all debating whether or not the tea-party movement was racist or not? One of the interesting parts of the movement was creative sign spelling.

Today brings us news that the two issues are related (as if we didn’t have some supicions all along).

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Anybody Not See This Coming?

Filed in National by on December 10, 2009 15 Comments

Via Think Progress: In an interview with National Review today, DeMint said that the tea parties should no longer be thought of as “separate” from the Republican Party: “The GOP leadership needs to stand up for mainstream American principles,” says DeMint. The best way to do that, he says, is to “look to the great […]

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Tea Party: The Movie

Filed in National by on November 22, 2009 6 Comments

There is a new documentary coming out – it’s called Tea Party: The Documentary Film. Apparently it’s serious and not a parody (though it’s difficult to tell). Here’s the trailer: Seriously guys – the second American revolution? Two protests in Washington, D.C. does not a revolution make, even if you’ve got your own TV news […]

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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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