Andrew Sullivan comes to the rescue of those of us who’ve been puzzling over the inchoate, and militantly uninformed, and non-prescriptive anger of the Tea Party movement by linking to an essay by New School professor J.M. Bernstein on the Hegelian roots of this anomie. It is a lovely piece of work, and I recommend that you read both …
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Super (Primary) Tuesday
Tomorrow is Super Primary Tuesday with 10 states holding primary contests for Congress and governor’s mansions. Also, in Arkansas Blanche Lincoln is fighting for her Senate seat in a crucial run off with Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Here’s a primer from TIME’s Katy Steinmetz and me about the top races to look for.
Following in Dede Scozzafava’s Footsteps? 7 House GOP Primaries to Watch
Sure, all the talk this weekend was about the murder-suicide between Democrats Ed Case and Colleen Hanabusa in Hawaii that handed Republican State Assemblyman Charles Djou a victory in a special election for Hawaii’s First Congressional District – President Obama’s childhood home. But Dems are betting that base anger on the other …
The RGA Strikes Back: V is For Victory
The Republican Governors Association is pushing back against Michael’s assertion that its flashy new web video was echoing “V for Vendetta.” The sequel video portrays a left-wing media conspiracy to discredit the original piece by tying it to violence, while largely echoing the stylistic and thematic qualities that drew comparisons to …
The Call: Financial Reform and Tea Parties
This week’s podcast features TIME Senior Correspondent Michael Grunwald and Washington Correspondent Alex Altman. Enjoy:
Karl Rove’s Advice For The Tea Partiers
Stay independent. Weed out the kooks. Get a focused message. From today’s Wall Street Journal:
My advice to them is to keep their distance from any single party and instead influence both parties on debt, spending and an over-reaching federal government. Allowing third-party movements to co-opt the tea partiers’ good name, which is
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A Dispatch From Virginia’s Fightin’ Fifth
Our colleague Alex Altman files this story from the Commonwealth. Freshman Democrat Tom Perriello, a loyal party warrior who stuck his neck out on health reform, cap-and-trade, etc. despite the deep purples and reds of his district, faces an uphill re-election battle. With the GOP eager to capitalize, a crowded field and Tea Party …
Coffee, Tea or…
Okay, I’m switching to decaf. Our colleague Sophia Yan files this dispatch about a new online phenom:
Texas Governor’s Race
What’s the best evidence that you are no longer a fringe candidate? It’s when the once-leading contender can no longer afford to ignore you. And that’s what we see in this statement today from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison about her Tea Party rival in the primary contest against incumbent Governor Rick Perry:
Austin, TX – Today,
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Tea Party Protesters Swarm the Hill
There was a moment at today’s tea party protests when an angry crowd of 10,000 stood facing the bulk of the House Republican conference on the steps to the Capitol chanting: “Throw them out!” Members looked at each other nervously, as if saying silently to one another: hopefully they mean throw the Democrats out?
With this …
Michele Bachmann Announces “The Super Bowl of Freedom”
The tailgating begins today, at noon, when perhaps thousands of conservative and libertarian activists will walk the halls of Congress in protest of health care reform. Conservative YouTube populist Michele Bachmann described the whole idea on with Fox News’s Gretchen Carlson. (Fun fact: Bachmann used to babysit Carlson in Anoka, …
Protests
From TIME’s Sophia Yan:
Ripples of protesters, thousands of them of all ages, lined Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol Saturday. Deafening chants could be heard, from “You lie, you lie!” echoing South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s outburst during President Obama’s Wednesday speech to plaintive
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