- Huh "@rkref Funny, you know who led investigation of 60 Minutes getting played by source? Ex-CEO of the AP Louis Boccardi and an ex-USAG."
- Memo to all the @twitchy people who were getting at @kurteichenwald yesterday: @tomcoburn wants disaster aid offset http://t.co/RsOp8pXjuQ
- Praying for Oklahoma.
- RT @ezraklein: All of journalism, in one comic book frame. I need to get this blown up and framed. http://t.co/8cqZHZ78Ph
- More proof that the right lacks irony--> "@ehbrown77 wow, I can't believe the garbage that people write and then retweet!! #ImpeachObama"
- Ok JHud is doing the Donna summer songbook at the rock and roll hall of fame induction. That should do until Game of Thrones comes on.
- Ok what else is on? #BillboardAwards
- If you want to understand the depleted state of rap right now? This last category on the Billboard Awards, and who introduced it.
- Remember when Dan Rather had a major scoop after obtaining George W. Bush's national guard records from a source? Good times.
- @TwinSiSTAR aww, thanks ! :)
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Tag Archives: tea party
Ladies and gentlemen, the totally non-partisan, apolitical tea party …
Were they right to use an algorithm to target people with “tea party” in their name? No. But did they have a legitimate reason to wonder whether the sudden upsurge in “tea party” 501(c)4s seemed suspicious, so maybe they should make sure there was no fraud going on? Yes. Continue reading
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Tagged IRS, partisanship, Politics, Republicans, tea party
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This week’s Herald column: New America held hostage, by Old America
They aren’t going to secede …
Posted in Opinion, Politics, Right Wingers, Tea Party Movement
Tagged conservatism, Conservatives, New America, Old America, Right wingers, tea party, the radical right, the right
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John Boehner, the GOP insurgents and the perils of striking the king
A much younger John Boehner stands beside then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whom Boehner would later turn on in a failed attempted coup. There is a saying in military lore, that if you’re going to strike the king, you’d better … Continue reading
This week’s Herald column: the Radical Party
This week’s column takes on a familiar foe …
Posted in Opinion, Republicans, Tea Party Movement
Tagged radicalism, Republicans, tea party, The Tea Party
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Is the Republican Liberty Caucus of Wisconsin scrubbing their Ryan hit page?
This is what you get right now, when you try to pull up the Libertarian-leaning Republican Liberty Caucus of Wisconsin’s website, which formerly had a post entitled “Does Paul Ryan’s Record Match His Rhetoric?” (http://wi.rlc.org/2010/08/paul-ryans-record/)
David Frum explains it all: the old are mowing down the young
Or at least, their life chances.
Posted in Politics, Tea Party Movement, The Economy
Tagged economics, old vs young, tea party
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Operation: ‘Get Newt’
The conservative establishment is coming for Newt Gingrich …
Posted in 2012, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Tea Party Movement
Tagged GOP 2012, Newt Gingrich, Republican nomination, Right wingers, tea party
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The GOP’s strange platform: ignore the first responders, cut off student loans
If it’s Sunday, it’s another day for strange goings on in the Republican Party, which is hardening into a wizened rump party that stands for booing soldiers, cheering the imminent death of the uninsured, defending Wall Street and the rich, … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatives, Mitch McConnell, Republicans, Ron Paul, spending, tea party
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Boehner on government spending: ‘show my district the money’
John Boehner is not a tea partier. Never has been. He’s an old fashioned, transactional pol, and he knows why Congress is there: to bring money home to their districts.
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Tagged government spending, John Boehner, Solyndra, spending, tea party
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John Boehner: still not in control of his caucus
A GOP insider told me recently that shortly after the 2010 election, they told newly minted House Speaker John Boehner that he wouldn’t be able to control his freshmen, which this person says they knew because they’d helped elect them. … Continue reading
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