Tea Party News

"I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!" - Otter, Animal House Sir, my heart is just a flutter with your latest round of hate-chumming your Tea Party base .

Can you imagine being audited by the IRS and telling them you lost all your records and that they would just have to take your word for it? That is exactly what the IRS is asking the American people to do.

The Blair County Tea Party's sixth annual Freedom Fest will be held on Sunday, July 20, at Legion Park in Hollidaysburg.

I feel like doing a thumb-sucker on the state of the Republican party today. I was musing yesterday in my head about the need for the establishment and Tea Party elements of the GOP to work together to accomplish positive goals, rather than becoming embroiled in a civil war.

The GOP Senate campaign committee illegally funneled funds on behalf of Sen. Thad Cochran, two operatives say.

Immediately after he ousted the York County Republican Committee's incumbent chairman Saturday, Alex Shorb vowed to ensure that Tea Party supporters are heard in the party's political deliberations.

A federal judge signaled on Friday that he would force IRS officials to say under oath what happened to former agency official Lois Lerner's crashed hard drive.

In primaries across the country, the war between the GOP establishment and the Tea Party ended not in a surrender but a truce.

No doubt, Haley Barbour and his political machine do not want to lose their foothold in the state of Mississippi.

The Tea Party's favored candidate in Mississippi, Chris McDaniel, had a close defeat to six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran in the Republican primary.

Rep. Steve Stockman announced Thursday that he's filed a resolution aiming to arrest Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the agency's targeting scandal.

It is rare that I see a senatorial candidate make such huge unchecked mistakes in a campaign leading up to a primary where there is real concern about his ability to survive a tea party opponent who has no money.

Sen. Lamar AlexanderA s primary challenger, Tennessee state Rep. Joe Carr, picked up another national Tea Party endorsement Thursday, the same day he released a new statewide radio ad.

A tea party member reaches for a pamphlet titled "The Impact of Obamacare", at a "Food for Free Minds Tea Party Rally" in Littleton, N.H, on Oct. 27, 2012.

A few days before the nation last celebrated its Independence Day, 68 members of the Senate passed and sent to the House a comprehensive immigration reform bill.

A federal judge has ordered the IRS to explain "under oath" how the agency lost a trove of emails from the official at the heart of the Tea Party targeting scandal.

Chris McDaniel's campaign suggests there could be thousands of illegal ballots cast by people who also voted in the June 3 Democratic primary.

Preston Smith is an atheist progressive supporter of Hillary Clinton's incipient 2016 presidential campaign.

Missouri GOP Leader Ed Martin called on the National Republican Party leaders to investigate the Thad Cochran racist anti-Tea Party ads .

Democrats are injecting race into the 2014 midterm elections amid fears that a drop-off in minority voters could severely cost them at the polls this fall.