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Malkin: A Tea Party Senate Takeover

The Tea Party isn’t dead. It’s just looking down ballot. While fiscal conservatives remain split over the GOP presidential candidates, grassroots activists are coalescing around a stellar slate of limited-government candidates looking to reinforce and reenergize the right in Washington. And … Continue reading

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Spengler: The Economics of Polarization, or – Why the Tea Party Is Magnificently Right

A hard look at the data explains the polarization of American politics: state and local governments are increasingproperty taxes even while the housing market crashes, and this is killing the middle class. In many parts of the country prospective homebuyers will … Continue reading

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Analysis: Republican establishment battling Tea Party for control of party

WASHINGTON – The Republican Party’s traditional kingmakers are losing a battle with anti-government Tea Party populists to choose the candidate who will challenge President Barack Obama in the November 2012 election. For the first time in almost 50 years, the … Continue reading

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Rubin: The Tea Party and the GOP primary electorate

The Post’s polling guru Peyton M. Craighill has some interesting stats on the makeup of the Republican primary electorate. The most recent Post/ABC News poll of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents who are registered to vote shows this breakdown for Tea … Continue reading

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Palin Warns Tea Partiers of Disunity as Her Decision Looms (5)

MANCHESTER, N.H. — As her self-imposed deadline to decide on a presidential run nears, Sarah Palin told a robust crowd of about 1,000 people here Monday that the Tea Party has thrived without a single standard-bearer and would continue to … Continue reading

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Gainor: Mainstream Media Pushing Hard to Defeat the Tea Party, Raise Taxes (2)

The Politico headline read: “Conservative elites pine for 2012 hero.” They could have shortened that sentence to “Elites pine” or more likely to “Elites freak the heck out.” Because it’s not just the conservative cognoscenti, it’s all of them. The … Continue reading

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Kengor: Dems’ Risky Tea Party Smear Strategy

I was sitting in my office, checking my email, minding my own business, when I was suddenly assaulted by a most bizarre news item: Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) had blamed the Tea Party for S&P’s downgrade of America’s credit rating. … Continue reading

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Corcoran: Don’t blame the Tea Party (4)

If you want to point fingers, start with statism After two weeks of panic, fear and something called “pure fear,” global stock markets rebounded Tuesday and settled down. Exactly why is anybody’s guess. Maybe investors, whoever and wherever they are, … Continue reading

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Russell: Tea Party ‘rump’ is saving the U.S., a dozen readers say

The Tea Party has proven to be a formidable political force in the United States — but it also has vocal Canadian supporters. A dozen made their voices heard this week, after National Post columnist Kelly McParland criticized the right-wing … Continue reading

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Tsarpalis: We Have Just Begun to Fight!

The Boston Tea Party happened on December 16, 1773. The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783. It took our forefathers almost ten years to free themselves of British rule. To the patriots of today, who call themselves … Continue reading

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Gardiner: Is this the most crass and nasty US presidency in decades? (11)

Earlier today Politico broke the astonishing story of Joe Biden supporting the charge by Democrat Congressman Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania that Tea Party Republicans had “acted like terrorists” over the debt issue. According to Politico’s report, based on eyewitness accounts: … Continue reading

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