In another sign of the front runner’s growing strength, Mitt Romney has taken the lead in South Carolina, according to a TIME/CNN/ORC poll released Friday.
Tea Party
In a Tea Party Universe, Visions of Supercommittee Success
Just before 2 p.m. on Thursday, as bands of Occupy Wall Street protesters clashed with police around the U.S., the movement whose headlines they’ve stolen neared an unexpected confrontation of its own.
For months, a group of …
Romney at the Center of a Tea Party Spat
FreedomWorks, the big-time Tea Party booster run by seasoned Washington insiders, has been a co-sponsor of the latest cross-country bus tour organized by the Sacramento-based Tea Party Express, a sign of the uneasy peace that has mostly prevailed between the myriad Tea Party factions. But Mitt Romney’s planned appearance on the tour has …
Radtke and RedState: A Brewing Tea Party Feud
Jamie Radtke announced she was running for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia last December, a month after five Tea Party upstarts swept into the chamber in the anti-incumbent wave. A rising star at the center of the commonwealth’s thriving Tea Party movement, Radtke “was supposed to be the Tea Party’s next giant-killer,”
Rick Perry Not Worried About Default
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There’s some question whether, as a presidential candidate, Rick Perry would present himself more as a Tea Party fighter or a level-headed Establishment Man. (The trick, of course, is to straddle the two worlds, but it’s not easy.) In his comments on Wednesday about the debt limit …
Trying to Reinvent Itself Again, the Tea Party Gears Up for 2012
Like any group in its infancy, the Tea Party goes through phases. Gone, or at least temporarily shelved, are the noisy rallies, the tricorn hats, the abundant signage that marked its birth in 2009. “We are not a protest …
In Tea Party Montana, An Old Idea Finds New Life
HELENA, MT—On a rainy morning in March, Derek Skees sat in a Helena hotel explaining his beef with the federal government. It was as big as all Montana.
Skees, a building contractor from the Flathead Valley, surfed the Tea …
Will Big Business Pressure the Tea Party Into Raising the Debt Ceiling?
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called in response to my post yesterday on the ongoing debt-limit negotiations. In the piece, I linked to a quote from Chamber chief Tom Donohue, who during an event in Atlanta on Monday appeared to warn the House Republicans vowing to vote against a debt-ceiling hike: “We’ll get rid of you.”
Chamber …
The “Tea Party” Brand Is Dead. Long Live The Tea Party Spirit.
Can we all agree that the Tea Party brand is effectively kaput for the 2012 Republican primary? That’s not to say that you won’t hear it repeated over and over again, in polls, newspaper headlines and in advertisements for …
In New Hampshire, Angry Republicans & Eager Candidates
The scene at the Barley House was tense. It was Friday afternoon in Concord, New Hampshire, and a Tea Party rally was winding down in front of the state house. Earlier, a small group of liberal activists had staged a …
The House GOP Freshmen: Pragmatists in Wolves’ Clothing?
They are the single most powerful group in Washington right now and no one inside the Beltway knows much about them. Which is why CNN’s Brianna Keilar and I sat down yesterday evening in the Congressional Visitor’s Center with four House Republican freshmen for an in depth conversation about what they really want and what lines they just …
Maybe It Really Is About Abortion…
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List and Rep. Jim Jordan, head of the Republican Study Committee, just held a conference call in which Jordan said the fight is all about abortion. “The country’s broke. The vast majority of Americans, whether they’re pro-life or not, don’t want their tax dollars being spent to take the life of …
Is This Really All About Abortion?
This morning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called the networks together and gave them an update on the negotiations (as I type this Reid is starting another press conference in the Senate). He said the issues have narrowed to one: abortion. Reid said House Speaker John Boehner is pushing a rider that would make Title X into block …