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…
Those tea partiers are just regular folks and when people accuse them of inciting violence they're liar, right? Maybe not. Federal prosecutors have charged a Washington state man, Charles Alan…
The Guardian has a delightful blog post about the destruction of the English language by the Tea Party. Richard Adams writes, "Along with the Tea Party has risen not only…
The Washington Post interviewed James Vanderboegh, the self-styled "patriot" who called for people to vandalize the offices of Democratic lawmakers. Vanberboegh lives on Social Security disability. This anti-government warrior, this self-styled leader, sponges our tax money? I guess he really deserves that money while other people are just lazy.
The post is really too good and too complete to give a good excerpt. It's called "An open letter to conservatives" and it's a well-researched post on some of the…
Jot down your own answers before clicking the link.
1. How much does the federal government collect in taxes as a % of GDP?
2. How much does the typical family making $50,000 per year pay in federal taxes?
3. Are taxes higher, lower or the same since Barack Obama was inaugurated?
Clarence Thomas was in the court majority in the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which overturned a century's worth of regulations barring unlimited spending by corporations in political campaigns. Virginia…
Former Republican presidential candidate and Congressman Tom Tancredo opened the Tea Party Nation convention. In his speech he said the U.S. had elected a "committed socialist ideologue" because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."
The Research 2000 poll commissioned by Daily Kos has a lot of Republicans worried. Republican leaders know that the extremism of the Republican base will turn voters off so that's…
...to show up to cash in on her payday, that is. The high profile Tea Party convention in Nashville is falling apart, with sponsors pulling out as well as crazy…
NBC's Chuck Todd notices that the Tea Party movement isn't a "grassroots" movement like it's been portrayed by the media: Chuck Todd actually gets this right on Meet The Press.…
Conservative centerfold and MA-Sen candidate Scott Brown now says he's never even heard of the Tea Party movement. On Wednesday, Republican senate candidate Scott Brown told reporters in Massachusetts that…