The Grand Ole Opry may have been next door but Sarah Palin preached to the choir on Saturday at the National Tea Party Convention and brought down the house. The two-day event, held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Hotel, had been a relatively placid affair – Tea Partiers learned how to social network and [...]
A group of disgruntled Tennessee Tea Partiers held a guerilla press conference in an adjacent lobby to the National Tea Party Convention here in Nashville this afternoon. Their message was about as organized as the movement itself – proudly “grassroots,” meaning verging on chaos. “We wanted the average citizen – not politicians or people who [...]
The Tea Party movement, as we know, is mostly comprised of patriotic Americans who are concerned about the drift of the country away from prosperity and, they believe, freedom. It is also has more nuts than a forest of almond trees.
Charles Krauthammer, who can, on occasion, be an intellectually honest conservative, is increasingly lured into bilious nonsense when discussing politics, as he was in his weekly Washington Post column published Friday. It was a brief against people (like me) who have expressed disappointment in recent weeks over the public’s unwillingness to confront the issues facing [...]
Everyone thinks of Obama-land and the Dems as the rulers of new media after their successful harnessing of facebook and social media networking during the 2008 campaign. Apparently, Congressional Republicans have caught on quick. According to a new Congressional Research Study, House Republicans are responsible for the majority of twitter users and twitter traffic (see [...]
The organizers of the National Tea Party Convention today announced that they will be forming a 501(c)4 corporation and related political action committee (PAC) to raise money to support 15-20 candidates for Congress or the Senate in the 2010 elections. “I have long said that the Tea Party movement doesn’t endorse candidates, candidates endorse it,” [...]
Two big pieces of news today related to Sen. Richard Shelby, the Alabama Democrat-turned-Republican: First, the Senate Democratic leadership leaked word that Shelby was holding up Obama appointees so that he can try to preserve two pork projects for Alabama, a military plane contract for Mobile and a $45 million FBI explosives lab for his [...]
CORRECTION: The original version of this post said that MSNBC acquired Alaska state e-mails related to Todd Palin. It was msnbc.com. After a long public records fight, msnbc.com finally got the goods on Todd Palin’s role in the Alaska state government when his wife was governor. About 3,000 pages of e-mails just released show that [...]
Here’s the latest on the health care front: * Speaking at a fundraiser last night, President Obama made another strong pitch for health care reform, this time with some more details on his preferred pathway and timeline. * But at least one observer thinks the big news is that Obama acknowledged the possibility that health [...]
