Isenstadt: Tea Party Movement's Campaign Gets Media but Few Votes

From last summer's congressional Town Hall meetings  to the September March on Washington,  the Tea Party movement has seen a growing presence in the media, but some analysts say they have yet to...

GOP Senatorial candidate draws ire from Tea Party

A GOP Senatorial hopeful has drawn anger from a Tea Party group in Colorado.   Republican Jane Norton continues to draw rebukes  from the right this week while a  new Youtube video posted on a...

OpEd News: Could the right be incited to violence?

OpEd News journalist Dave Lefcourt asks if it is possible that the Tea Party movement  -  the natural heirs to the 1970s "love it or leave it"  Americans, as he terms them   -  could...

On Paranoia and Not Getting It: Officer Cheeks Incident

  “A people cannot bear to see its evils touched, even if only to be eradicated; it is like a stupid, pusillanimous invalid who trembles at the sight of a physician.”  ~...

Radical Right Carries McVeigh spirit on into 21st century

" The many similarities between 1990s right wing civil terrorist Timothy McVeigh and  California Republican Congressman Wally Herger  were highlighted on a post from "Reconstitution" this month,...

The Guns of August: Frank Rich and the rising tide of discontent

"If the president insists that enemies like this are his friends — and that the nuts they represent can be placated by reason — he will waste his opportunity to effect real change and have no one to blame...

Charges of Brown Shirts tactics not OK if made from the Left

Apparently,  the old saying, "they can dish it out,  but they can't take it"  holds true of some members of the political right.  Ever since Obama won the Iowa primaries,  we have heard charges of fascism,  Nazism,  and an Obama...

GOP Rep. Phil Gingrey Defends People Packing Guns At Town Halls

In addition to the shouting, screaming and shoving, some right wingers are now bringing loaded guns to town halls on health care (including one fellow who brought a rifle to Obama's town hall). One of the...

Lou Dobbs' Death Threat Against Howard Dean?

We've all seen the crazy right wing rioters at town halls fighting against universal health care, but now CNN's Lou Dobbs seems to have raised the bar. "On his radio show, Lou Dobbs, speaking about former...

GOP Lawmakers Support Angry Mobs Who Disrupt Town Hall Meetings

Death threats against Democratic lawmakers, Nazi imagery, angry mobs... all supported by Republican lawmakers. "MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reports that Republican lawmakers are offering support to angry right wing...

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