TEA PARTY popularity and TEA PARTY trends

OK, we understand that this is garden-variety election pandering to the Tea Party base and all of that, but we feel duty-bound to offer up a little garden-variety ridicule to go with it.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate candidate in Texas with Tea Party backing may win enough votes in Tuesday's Republican primary to force a runoff with the state's lieutenant governor, setting up another battle for the soul of the national Republican Party.

A Democratic congressional candidate in New Jersey promised during a debate Thursday to travel the country fighting Tea Party members of Congress. PolitickerNJ reports that Newark Councilman Ron Rice said during a debate in Newark that as a congressman he plans to travel the country to fight with Tea Party members of Congress in order to weaken them politically. He said the plan will help Democ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says a tax deal is "impossible" before the elections, and here's why: "Republicans' blind adherence to tea party extremism." Responding to GOP demands to immediately extend Bush-era tax cuts, Reid released a sharply worded letter Tuesday saying the right wing's refusal to entertain new taxes would prevent any deal before November. Republican senators have aband...

Tea Party favorites Rick Perry and Sarah Palin weigh in for different candidates in a the high-profile Texas Senate GOP primary.

The wheels are coming off the wagon. The fat lady is about to sing. The proverbial is about to hit the fan. It doesn't matter which saying you use, the facts are inescapable. Greece's membership of the eurozone is untenable under the current conditions and everyone knows it. Some like Hungary's finance minister say openly Greece will leave the euro. The only question is what catalyst will force...

An anonymous reader writes "In the midst of Congressional races around the country, one stands out to techies. Thomas Massie, an MIT whiz kid who pioneered touch-based interfaces and founded SensAble Technologies in the 1990s, is the favorite to win the Republican nomination in his Kentucky district next week. SensAble was recently sold on the cheap, but in a new exclusive, Massie explains why ...

In Nebraska, one Republican Senate candidate, Jon Bruning, savaged President Obama’s health-care plan and compared welfare recipients to lazy, scavenging raccoons. He established himself as conservative enough to lock down the backing of the Tea Party Express. Read full article >>

State Sen. Deb Fischer wins GOP nomination after endorsements by Tea Party heavyweights Palin and CainFormer Gov. Kerrey Wins Dem Nomination for Nebraska SenateRomney Wins Nebraska GOP Presidential Primary

Tea Party-backed Republican candidates for the Senate are looking to infuse the upper chamber with the deep-seated conservatism that is coursing through the House.

US senator Richard Lugar, a 35-year Senate veteran and leading foreign policy voice, has been soundly defeated in the Indiana Republican primary by a Tea Party-backed rival, jolting the American political establishment during a volatile election year.

Tea Party favorite Bachmann (pictured), whose doctor husband Marcus is Swiss, recently activated her right to become a dual citizen along with three of their five children. Bachmann pulled out of the race in January for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann, a former White House hopeful and a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, has a new political option: she can run for office in Switzerland.

Isn't it obvious? We gave women the right to vote. As Raw Story reports: Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a tea party activist that's appeared several times on Fox News, and founder of an organization where Sean Hannity serves as an advisory board member, said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America's greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in "the ...

El aspirante presidencial republicano Mitt Romney dio hoy un paso más hacia una nominación que tiene casi asegurada con sus victorias en las primarias de tres estados, en una jornada en la que también salieron ganando el derechista Tea Party y los detractores del matrimonio homosexual.

North Carolina votes on a same-sex marriage ban while primaries take place in Indiana and Wisconsin - live coverage11am: As North Carolina votes today on its constitutional amendment barring gay marriage or civil unions, what better time to be reminded of the state's former US senator, who has proved to be such a fine advertisment for traditional marriage.It's former Democratic...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The face of Indiana politics for nearly four decades, Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is battling for political survival against a tea party-backed GOP challenger who says the senator has become more interested in compromising with liberals in Washington than representing conservatives back home....

El candidato ultraconservador se retiró hace un mes después de ganar 11 primarias. A finales de marzo llamó a Romney "el peor candidato posible contra Obama"

@kai "und dem amerikanischen steuerzahler das sauer verdiente geld wegfressen, gehören egentlich vor gericht" Nanana, wo bleibt die Contance? Ihr Eintreten für amerikanische Steuerzahler ehrt Sie! Und wenn die Tea Party weiter an Boden gewinnt, hat sich Ihr Einsatz richtig gelohnt. Aber der Apollo Flug damals, den hat der Schmitt gartantiert aus eigener Tasche bezahlt. "Frage nicht, was das La...

It sure doesn’t look like Richard Lugar is long for the political world. The news that the major super PAC supporting his candidacy is bailing on him a week before the Republican primary reinforces a growing consensus that the six-term Indiana senator will likely be defeated next Tuesday by his conservative challenger, state Treasurer Richard Mourdock.Under one scenario, this could be a fortuit...

The Queen entered into the Jubilee spirit with gusto this morning as she donned a bright pink hat to attend a Mad Hatters tea party at Sherborne Abbey today.

Es ist das Lieblingsspiel der Politik-Beobachter in Amerika: Sie spekulieren darüber, wen der Republikaner Mitt Romney als Vizepräsident nominiert, um in den Wahlkampf gegen Barack Obama zu ziehen. Jung oder erfahren, Mann oder Frau, Latino oder beliebt bei der Tea Party: Für jeden der möglichen Stellvertreter gibt es gute Argumente. Süddeutsche.de stellt die Bewerber und ihre Stärken und Sch...

Apparu en 2009, le Tea Party a poussé les républicains à radicaliser leurs positions conservatrices. Le mouvement Occuper Wall Street obligera-t-il le président Barack Obama à abandonner sa complaisance envers la finance ? / États-Unis (affaires intérieures), Banque, Capitalisme, Dette, Économie, (...) / États-Unis (affaires intérieures), Banque, Capitalisme, Dette, Économie, Finance, Jeunes, ...

Marine Corps Sgt. Gary Stein received an “other-than-honorable” discharge on Wednesday after he criticized United States President B…

Challenges to two veterans of the Republican establishment, Sens. Orrin Hatch and Richard Lugar, will signal whether tea-party activists and their allies still have the power to reshape the party.

Canada's version of the Tea Party movement is hoping to stage one of the country's biggest political upsets by unseating the center-right party that has governed the oil-rich province of Alberta for decades.

If the IMF is to be believed in the euroland case it could be disastrous, creating a period of depression which would make the 1930s look like a children’s tea party.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Three years ago he was merely a face in a very large crowd, standing outside the Alamo on Tax Day as Glenn Beck spoke of drawing a line in the sand....

EE UU intenta sentar en el banquillo al agente que persigue obsesivamente a los latinos

What's better than a tranquil tea party? How's about a tranquil tea party being utterly destroyed in spectacular fashion by a slingshot? Great, now put that in slow motion. What you are about to see is the pornography of exquisite destruction. [Zach King via Laughing Squid] More »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several hundred rain-soaked Tea Party activists rallied on Saturday to call for the U.S. Supreme Court to repeal President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law after arguments next week.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A Marine facing dismissal for running a Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party that criticizes the Obama administration is still speaking out but has been getting little support from military law experts and free speech advocates who say he may have crossed the line....

Chris Rock and his team are keeping quiet about the actor’s attack on a camera man when conservative author Jason Mattera asked him about his views on the Tea Party being racist. 

President Hu Jintao and other top Chinese leaders Saturday joined a tea party for the deputies to the country's top legislature and the members of the top political advisory body who are from the ethnic minority groups.

Tough-talking Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, already embroiled in a Justice Department bias investigation, waded deeper into controversy on Thursday with an assertion that a probe by his office found President Barack Obama's birth certificate was a forgery

Oh, we want to have a tea party too! The Royal Ladies enjoyed an afternoon out Thursday at famous London tea house Fortnum & Mason to unveil a plaque commemorating the restoration of Picadilly. The future Queen is looking as goregeos as ever in a robins-egg blue M by Missoni coat, and we especially love the yellow [...]

The three royals are presented special Jubilee picnic hampers at Fortnum's

Christianity thrives when the state stays out of its business and allows a marketplace of ideas to thrive. It's odd that many conservative Christians, who typically defend a free marketplace and oppose government overreach, don't get this.American conservatives are deeply divided about Thomas Jefferson. His Democratic-Republican Party embraced many bedrock conservative principles, favoring stat...

Party needs to take 25 seats to reverse defeat by the Republicans who swept to power on wave of Tea Party anger at President Obama

Les travaux de démolition ont débuté samedi. Islamabad veut éviter que la dernière demeure du fondateur d'al-Qaida, dans laquelle il s'est caché jusqu'à sa mort, ne devienne un lieu de pèlerinage. » DOSSIER SPECIAL - La mort de Ben LadenArticles en rapportMacky Sall, le principal rival d'Abdoulaye WadeLes Syriens appelés à voter, les bombardements se poursuiventRomney courtise les Tea Party du ...

LABOR backbencher Michael Danby says Kevin Rudd is using "Tea Party tactics" to get back into the prime minister's job. 

Lawrence Lessig's new ebook One Way Forward is one of the most exciting documents I've read since I first found The Federalist Papers. One Way Forward is more of a long pamphlet than a book. It's tempting to call it a "manifesto," except that it's so darned reasonable, and that's not a word that comes [...]

Mitt Romney won handily in the Nevada caucuses with the help of groups he has struggled to persuade before, including strong Tea Party supporters and very conservative voters.

A trois jours de l'élection primaire cruciale de Floride au sein du Parti républicain, Newt Gingrich a bénéficié du ralliement de Herman Cain, ex-chouchou des sondages, qui avait renoncé en décembre à la candidature. Newt Gingrich a courtisé les électeurs du Tea Party, critiques virulents de la...

Kelly McParland: Alex Kaye is guilty about that his great-grandfather immigrated illegally from Poland to the U.S. So, on July 4 he’s “self-deporting” himself

Newt Gingrichs Sieg bei der republikanischen Vorwahl in South Carolina ist nichts weniger als ein Misstrauensvotum gegen den Favoriten Mitt Romney. Aber der zynische Karrierepolitiker ist nicht die Alternative, nach der die Tea Party sucht.

Excellent débatteur apprécié du Tea Party, l'ancien Speaker de la Chambre a gagné les faveurs de la base du parti républicain face au candidat de l'«establishment» Mitt Romney.

Wahlkampf mal anders: In Charleston feierte der TV-Satiriker Stephen Colbert seine Kandidatur zum „Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten von South Carolina“. Unterstützung gab es von einem Liebling der Tea Party.

Before the Golden Globes Champagne, there is the BAFTA tea.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker John Boehner, hoping to spare fellow Republicans a second embarrassing defeat over payroll tax cuts, is prepared to navigate around rebellious Tea Party-aligned lawmakers to get a deal, according to congressional aides.

An examination of the exit poll data shows that the ‘Massachusetts moderate’ won in New Hampshire among Tea Party supporters, evangelicals and conservatives - not to mention practically every age and income group.

Iowa cumplió el martes con su verdadera misión electoral, que no es tanto elegir al candidato presidencial como eliminar aspirantes. Antes de que acabase la noche, el gobernador de Texas, Rick Perry, anunciaba que se volvía a su Estado para reflexionar sobre los malos resultados obtenidos. Más contundente fue Michele Bachmann, que renunció a «poner a otra Michelle en la Casa Blanca». La retirad...

Im Wahljahr 2012 wird sich zeigen, ob die Tea Party wirkliche Macht erlangt. Gelingt ihr dies, werden sich die USA radikal verändern. Von Eva Schweitzer, New York

The chairman of the conservative Tea Party Patriots group was arrested at a New York City airport today for gun possession, a spokeswoman for the Queens District Attorney said.

Heureusement que l'Amérique est un grand pays, sinon les Républicains finiraient par manquer de candidats à la Maison Blanche. On a eu Michele Bachman, alliée du Tea Party, avant qu'elle ne parte en vrille et fasse rire même ses supporters...

House speaker Newt Gingrich emerged Sunday as the new leader of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, well positioned to scoop up conservative support of fallen Tea Party favorite Herman Cain.

Newt Gingrich is on top after the announcement in Atlanta and seems the most likely to pick of Mr Cain's anti-establishment and Tea Party supporters.

Kristian Carlson (right) discusses the first rib of Australopithecus sediba with colleague Brian Kuhn. Image: Kate Wong JOHANNESBURG At a tea party earlier today for a research team at the University of the Witwatersrand that has grown accustomed to making stunning discoveries of human fossils, a curious excitement erupted when Kristian Carlson unveiled a seemingly modest find: a rib bone from ...

There's one thing that turns some Tea Party Republicans into government-job lovers like their Democratic rivals: Their neighborhood post office.

The Tea Party crowd won’t like it, but best economic fix lies with a more activist Federal Reserve, economist argues

What do these three have to do with one another? Frank Rich finds a thread Steve Jobs shrine in New York City. Photo: PED "Nothing has revealed how much the class warriors of the right and left of our time have in common," writes Frank Rich in the Oct. 23 issue of New York Magazine, "than the national outpouring after Steve Jobs's death." Rich, who left his high-profile perch on the Op...

Six people from the Occupy D.C. movement were arrested or ticketed in the chaotic moments after a driver struck protesters in front of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Friday night, police said. By Saturday, police and protesters were still giving divergent accounts of what occurred when more than 500 people gathered to protest a dinner held by Americans for Prosperity, a conservat...

I've been down to "Occupy Wall Street" twice now and I love it The protests building at Liberty Square and spreading over Lower Manhattan are a great thing the logical answer to the Tea Party and a long-overdue middle finger to the financial elite The protesters picked the right target...