Tea Party News

Glenn Beck ultimately did not get his dream candidate , Political Rebuttal regular Rep. Louie Gohmert , but he can hopefully take some comfort in the fact that the Tea Party primary challenger to Sen. John Cornyn opponent will instead be someone even crazier: Rep. Steve Stockman.

David Ippolito, known for the past 20+ years as "That Guitar Man from Central Park", wrote a new song for his annual Winter Concert.

On Monday, Rush Limbaugh said that the Tea Party is a "way of life" and the Republican establishment and Washington's permanent political class have as much of a chance of destroying it as the left has of eliminating Christmas from American life.

"Oh dear, I've dropped my tea into the Boston Harbor," the mascot laments. "Hmph, I guess this party's over!" Buffet, an avid supporter of President Obama, lent his name to the president's proposal to raise the tax rate on the wealthy, making the misleading claim that his secretary paid more in taxes than he did.

'Tis the season and Nancy Pelosi has given the hands-down best gift to the American people - her phrase "Embrace the suck."

The Clayton-based coloring book publisher put out a coloring book based on the life of Texas tea party darling Senator Ted Cruz, and it's flying off the shelves faster than you can say "Obamacare."

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case testing a Minnesota law that bans the wearing of buttons or clothing with messages that election officials deem too political to be worn within 100 feet of any polling place.

Talk radio host, The Blaze contributor and conservative activist Dana Loesch went on Hannity tonight to debate Tea Party critic Richard Fowler.

Speaker of the House John Boehner on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013.

Seeking to unify anti-tea party forces, Rep. Peter King today will form a new political action committee, "American Leadership PAC," to promote an alternative to staunch conservative Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz , R-Texas, and Sen. Rand Paul , R-K.Y., he told ABC News in an interview.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania on Monday bristled at House Speaker John Boehner for attacking tea party groups and blaming them for pressuring the GOP into the government shutdown.

There it is, on A1 of the New York Times : The latest turn in the "remaking of the GOP."

As we head into this holiday season, video game news grows relatively quiet and crazy stories start popping out their heads instead.

Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.

The Tea Party is best understood as the latest reactionary lurch to the right of the Republican Party during the past 60 years: the Birchers who saw the civil rights movement as a vehicle for communism, the Goldwater supporters who thought the 1964 Civil Rights Act was verboten, the election of the first true conservative , the Gingrich Revolution ... (more)

Fox News political analyst Brit Hume told Fox News Sunday' s Chris Wallace that just as House Speaker John Boehner had gotten strong enough to take on outside conservative groups , Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has a tea party primary challenger keeping him from doing so.

Steve Stockman's surprise Senate campaign almost seems like a "Colbert Report" send-up of the Tea Party.

Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel noted on Friday that Barack Obama and the IRS have a new plan to target Tea Party groups in advance of the 2014 elections.

Lobbyists are reportedly "pumping their fists" over House Speaker John Boehner's declaration of war against the Tea Party last week.

While there are mechanisms called "primaries" in other countries, there is no country in the world that uses party primaries the way we use them in the United States.