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By Alexander Bolton – 08/19/11 06:42 PM ET House Republicans are facing angry protests at home this month as liberal activists and labor organizers try to replicate the Tea-Party backlash that bit Democrats in August of 2009. Liberal groups have been Continuing to provide the current level of funding to the EPA is popular among [...]

Photograph: Richard Ellis/Getty Images As Michele Bachmann contends for the Republican nomination, we might ask what her Tea Party means for her native midwest. In southwestern Ohio, where I was born and raised, mantras of low taxation and small How dare you ask her pertinent questions, Piers! LOLz. Check out the video (above) of Delaware´s [...]

Iowa senator says he admires group's commitment to 'basic American principles' After video goes viral online — with the help of Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh — Ryan Rhodes is making TV appearances on CNN and Fox News Channel. In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public [...]

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.: “There are currently two bills headed for a vote to raised the debt ceiling and reduce spending. One of those bills, from House Speaker John Boehner, cuts about $1 trillion in spending and raises the debt ceiling by $1 Whatevs, Tea Party Express. I'm sure that bringing in Joe the Plumber [...]

In precisely the same fashion stands the Tea Party prediction that allowing the financial default of the United States does not really matter all that much. In fact, should the nation default next week, the damage will be many-faceted. A handful of Republican congressmen, nearly all swept into office by the tea party, have intimidated [...]

The fiery, independent version of Senator John McCain attacked Tea Party-allied Republicans for abandoning reason in the debt fight. “I can only surmise that she's very, very popular here,” [Charlie] Gruschow [of the Tea Party of America] said of Palin's level of support among Republican caucus-goers in Iowa. “And it didn't hurt at all when [...]