Tea Party News

Recently, I attended a speech that attempted to lay out a case that Ronald Reagan would not have been a Tea Party President.

A new strategy is emerging to halt the advancement of the far right wing "purists" know as the Tea Party, whose politicians run as Republicans but even further to the far right, of the right wing Republican.

The Senate Conservatives Fund has endorsed tea party activist Milton Wolf, President Barack Obama's distant cousin, for the Senate primary challenge against incumbent Republican Pat Roberts in Kansas next year.

The Democratic pollster Democracy Corps, commissioning research from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, recently dug into that foreign species commonly referred to as "the conservative voter."

Democrats demand people sacrifice for ObamaCare for their own good. Republicans suggest they compromise with Democrats, while the TEA Party demands both stop filching taxpayer dollars.

Washington fix-it insider joins the Obama White House Why it's a vote of confidence in current Chief of Staff Denis McDonough New NBC/WSJ poll out first thing tomorrow morning GOP base gets tested as elected officials 1) back away from health-care repeal, and 2) work on budget agreement with Democrats Here's another establishment-vs.-Tea Party ... (more)

The raft of stories over the last week, the latest being today's piece in Business Insider, about Democratic Party infighting has nicely illustrated something conservatives have known for a while.

During a Monday segment about possible Tea Party vs. GOP establishment candidates in many southern states, Chris Matthews moved away from comparing Obama to the Pope and Jesus and on to bashing the Republican party.

It's never too early for a nice juicy straw poll, particularly if it's of the presidential variety.

Rep. Steve Stockman will reportedly launch a primary challenge against Sen. John Cornyn , who is seeking reelection in 2014.

Sen. John Cornyn, the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate, drew a last-minute primary challenger today when Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, filed paperwork for the 2014 Texas Senate race, just minutes before the filing deadline.

Evan Smith recently joined the Saint Augustine Tea Party . This week, he joined the Town Criers in the historic district of St. Augustine Florida.

On Monday, the National Journal reported that "documents filed by other groups show that two labor organizations, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Laborers' International Union of North America, directed a combined $400,000 to the Republican group [the Defending Main Street super PAC] in September and October."

Few would disagree that the sanctity of the 10th Amendment-that being the amendment stating that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people- stands at or near the top of the list of what motivates the American Tea Party movement.

Thad Cochran, a six-term Senator with a shock of white hair, is the spitting image of the Republican establishment.

Ed Gillespie, a former top aide to President George W. Bush who chaired both the Republican National Committee and Virginia GOP, said he is considering a bid against Democratic Sen. Mark Warner , automatically putting Virginia in play and giving the Republicans their best chance to take back control of the Senate.

BRADENTON, Fla., Sept. 10, 10:00 P.M. ET -- The great irony of the Gainesville Koran-burning saga is that at the end, imams were calling the shots and other Islamic clergy were at the microphones on his lawn, calling their host an extremist on Friday.

Sen. Ted Cruz dared to show respect for the late Nelson Mandela on social media, and the Tea Party golden boy faced the wrath of his own supporters because of it, reports ABC News .

So far, the Republican response to President Obama's historic address on economic inequality has not veered from the predictable clichA©s of Tea Party rhetoric.

Republican Senator Rand Paul said on Sunday he is giving serious thought to a run for the presidency in 2016 but might decide against it because of the burden a campaign would cause for his family.