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Tag Archives: tea party
Those “independent” tea partiers
Via DEDC, I went through some poll numbers for our Washington State election. There’s a couple issues where you expect to see libertarians voting with the democrats, in particular gay marriage and legalization and regulation of marijuana. So, does the … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged gay marriage, independents, Marijuana, tea party
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Freedom’s Just Another Word For Peeing in a Cup
The Tea Party promised freedom from government but it hasn’t exactly delivered on its promise. Tea Party favorite Rick Scott, Governor of Florida, wanted to require all welfare recipients in the state to submit urine samples to make sure they … Continue reading
Birth Of A Tea Party
From the New York Times, October 14, 2008: MOBILE, Ala. — The McCain campaign’s depiction of Barack Obamaas a mysterious “other” with an impenetrable background may not be resonating in the national polls, but it has found a receptive audience with … Continue reading
The Orange Man’s Chickens Coming Home To Roost
According to the Tea/Republican Party’s talking points about governance, everything this gentleman says is 100% correct: Who is David Lewis and what is he doing giving House Speaker John Boehner a primary challenge? While his origins are somewhat unclear, the Tea Party activist’s agenda … Continue reading
A Man Who Will Fight For Your Honor
Salon’s Justin Elliott read Rick Perry’s previous book, On My Honor: “Student campus unrest, rejection of authority, the ‘self-esteem’ movement, moral relativism, and the demands of secularists all gradually fused into a series of attacks on American institutions,” he writes … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged republicans, rick perry, sociology, tea party
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The Right Of The People To Eat Ho-hos And Ride Medicare-Funded Scooters, Shall Not Be Infringed
Very thoughtful point from David Frum: What you are hearing here is the secret of the Tea Party. Americans do not clearly distinguish in their minds between “rights” in the James Madison sense and what we might call “folkways.” The … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged david frum, republicans, tea party
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Meet The New Boss
In the comments to yesterday’s post, and earlier, we’ve talked a good amount about whether Rick Perry can be considered the GOP front-runner. Fareed Zakaria is coming around to the idea: I get the sense that the Republican Party is … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged fareed zakaria, mitt romney, republicans, rick perry, tea party
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Inside The Minds Of The Tea Party
Summary of a recent study from UMass: Results indicated that at a conscious level, White and non-White ethnic groups were held to the same standard and construed as significantly less American when members expressed their ethnic identity publicly vs. privately. … Continue reading
Posted in History, News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged patriotism, psychology, race, real america, sociology, tea party
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There’s nothing to shoot here
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, right? Think a person would have an easier time killing five people with a knife or with an AK-47? These questions and more will not be answered as we take a gun rampage … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events
Tagged Gun Control, Nevada, New York, tea party, West Virginia
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Coming From Inside The House
So, as we know, America hates the Tea Party. Will the media let them know that the Tea Party has successfully taken over the GOP? Are we witnessing the end of the Tea Party’s electoral rebellion? Did the GOP civil … Continue reading
Peak Tea (Party)
PYM has been following the rise of the New Hampshire Tea Party over the past year. It was only seven months ago that Tea Party fav and newly elected Chair of the New Hampshire GOP, Jack Kimball, earned his own article in the … Continue reading
They Are Who We Thought They Were
If the Republicans nominate Bachmann, maybe we can nominate a gay atheist Muslim, just to settle bar bets between political scientists: Of course, politicians of all stripes are not faring well among the public these days. But in data we … Continue reading
Glass House Award
I know this isn’t exactly breaking news, but it seems that tea party favorite Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) is in a bit of a bind these days. As you may already of heard, the Congressman who once remarked “I won’t place … Continue reading
Getting To Know All About You
Americans’ views of the Tea Party congressmen are markedly more negative than they were at the beginning of the year. Independents viewed them favorably, 29 percent to 14 percent negative, in January; now those numbers are 24 percent positive, 28 … Continue reading
Barbaric Yawps from the Tea Party
I know this isn’t at all what Walt Whitman had in mind when he described sounding his “barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”, but I’ve run out of adjectives for this tea party nonsense (via Politico): The founder of … Continue reading
The Tea Party: The Last Gasp Of The Southern Strategy
The Tea Party is the GOP base, wearing old hats, claiming to be very mad at Pres. Obama about deficits and federal power, despite having supported the deficits and expansions of federal power under Pres. Bush. Their policy-averse, irrational, resentment-fueled … Continue reading
The Race Riots in Peoria
While looking through The Tree Of Liberty forums earlier, I stumbled across a story about an alleged race riot in Peoria. Sounded alarming and … well, I won’t play around for narrative purposes, it sounded like complete bullshit: The screen … Continue reading
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Tagged drudge, peoria, race riot, racism, tea party
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The Iron Law Of Institutions, Our Infamous Polarization, And Eric Cantor
The Iron Law of Institutions holds that “the people who hold power in institutions are guided principally by preserving power within the institution, rather than the success of the institution itself.” Eric Cantor walked out of talks on meeting America’s … Continue reading
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Tagged eric cantor, political culture, politics, republicans, tea party
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