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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Just a year ago, tea party activists came roaring out of the congressional elections eager to shape the looming race for the White House.
Things have not gone as planned.
Turned off by Mitt Romney’s style and evolution on several important issues, they have bounced from one candidate to another in hopes of finding a formidable
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In an interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama addressed the growing “Occupy Wall Street” movement and similar protests.
Obama said that he understands the frustration coming from the Occupy Wall Street movement and compared the protests to the Tea Party.
ROLAND S. MARTIN: Occupy Wall Street And The Tea Party Are Exercising Their Rights
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It has been amazing listening to various critics of the Occupy Wall Street protests suggest that somehow what they’re doing is un-American. I’m the same person who said that the Tea Party had an absolute right to do what they were actually doing. In fact, I also said it was a welcome sight to see Americans stand up and voice their concerns and mobilize and organize. I might take
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Last week Loop21.com asked “Why Can’t the Congressional Black Caucus Be More Like the Tea Party?” Today they are responding.
Congressional Black Caucus communications director Stephanie L. Young, part of a new breed among the caucus, there to inject some fire into the 41-year-old organization spoke to us exclusively. When Young isn’t getting the word out on CBC initiatives and helping put together events
Spectators cheered the prospect of letting uninsured Americans die during Monday’s CNN Tea Party debate.
“That’s what’s freedom is all about,” Republican presidential nominee Ron Paul said when CNN’s Wolf Blizter asked who should pay when uninsured Americans encounter catastrophic illness.
“He should do whatever he wants to do,” Paul said. My advice to him is have a major medical policy.”
As Blizter continued his line of questions asking, “So congressman
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The Tea Party is calling for the resignation of Indiana Democratic congressman Andre Carson after he said the party wanted to see Black people hanging from trees.
Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots described Rep. Andre Carson’s remarks as “disgusting” and “hateful” in a statement to the Daily News.
“Rep. Carson should immediately resign from Congress,” it read.
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MIAMI — African American congressman Andre Carson from Indiana had harsh words for the Tea Party at a recent Congressional Black Caucus event in Miami.
He compared the Tea Party movement to the efforts of Jim Crow and directly addressed members of congress affiliated with the movement.
The Huffington Post reports:
Read More“This is the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow,” Carson said. “Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to
Tea Party leaders issued a response to controversial remarks made by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) over the weekend. According to party leaders, “it’s time for a new-NEW era of civility.”
“We’ve had Democrats calling American citizens ‘terrorists’ and ‘hostage takers,’ and now an elected Democratic representative says that we can ‘go straight to hell,’” Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin leaders of the Tea Party Patriots said in a statement.
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Shery Lanford Smith, the chairwoman of Sumter Tea Party in South Carolina posted a joke about killing Michelle and Barack Obama earlier this month.
Lanford Smith reportedly joked about throwing the couple out of a helicopter, then quickly removed it a few moments later.
Her Facebook status read, “I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy!” Smith added:
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The Tea Party isn’t happy with the Democratic Party especially, Rep. Maxine Waters.
The 11-term California Democrat recently made a comment at a meeting where she told the Tea Party to go where the sun doesn’t shine.
“I’m not afraid of anybody,” Walters told the crowd. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
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