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Gridlock Is Good [updated]

By mw | Related entries in 2010 Election, Democrats, Fiscal Responsibility, Polls, Republicans, tea party

The bogeyman of “gridlock” will not dissuade voters. While often messy, political gridlock in Washington D.C. can yield very positive results. The poster child of dysfunctional gridlock is the Clinton/Gingrich budget impasse that shut down the government in 1995. Ugly – to be sure. Yet out of that same dynamic during the six years of divided and “gridlocked” government, we got a lot of good, smart governance.

July 13th, 2010 | Permalink| 64 Comments »

Hardball’s “Rise of the New Right” Documentary

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Media, Republicans, Video, tea party

Say what you will about MSNBC, but the following by Chris Matthews and the Hardball crew is a good look at how this new movement has sprung up and why it seems to continue to grow.
Of note, watch Part Six about how the “death panel” meme started with Sarah Palin and kept on rolling from [...]

June 19th, 2010 | Permalink| 8 Comments »

Coffee Party not for Indepedents and Moderates

By Solomon Kleinsmith | Related entries in Bipartisan, General Politics, Independents, Partisan Nonsense, Politics, tea party

For some people, the development of the new Coffee Party USA organization seemed like a godsend in response to the more extreme elements in the Tea Party movement. At first I thought that this could be the grassroots movement I’d been waiting for – one that actually included moderates independents, and actively worked across ideological [...]

May 29th, 2010 | Permalink| 9 Comments »

Selective Editing

By Frank Hagan | Related entries in tea party

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC recently editorialized that the Tea Party movement was devoid of “people of color.” The rallies I have seen on my local news show a good mix of what I think is meant by the term “people of color”, including blacks, hispanics, Pacific islanders and asians. But I do live [...]

February 20th, 2010 | Permalink| 9 Comments »

Tea Party Candidate Slams Obama’s Teleprompters … While Reading Off Of Teleprompters

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Conservatives, Obama, Partisan Nonsense, Republicans, Video, tea party

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning…
The Tea Party’s choice in the Florida Republican primary, Marco Rubio, began his address to a crowd of conservative conventioneers by taking a shot at President Obama for reading from a teleprompter. He did it while standing in front of two easily visible teleprompters.
It was unclear whether [...]

February 19th, 2010 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Tea Party In Trouble?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Obama, Palin, tea party

Does it need the GOP to be legitimate? No.
However…having somebody like Sarah Palin certainly got them a lot of attention last week.
Still, one Tea Party leader doesn’t like it one bit…
A prominent Tea Party leader from Texas is warning that the movement “is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party,” [...]

February 13th, 2010 | Permalink| 17 Comments »

Tom Tancredo Pulls Tea Party Further Down In The Muck

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Obama, Partisan Hacks, Race, Republicans, Video, tea party

The Tea Party protests last spring could have been the start of something important in American politics had it not been for the vocal group of far right wingers who insisted on leveling all sorts of racially charged attacks at Obama and his supporters.
Well, this weekend they’re holding their convention in Nashville, Tennessee and former [...]

February 5th, 2010 | Permalink| 7 Comments »