Speakers at Tea Party March Urge Support for GOP Candidates (CQPolitics.com)
Coast to coast, tea partiers promote their cause (AP)
AP - Originally billed as a chance to reflect on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a series of raucous tea party rallies around the country on Sunday ended up focusing almost entirely on an event still to come — the Nov. 2 election.
Will the ‘Tea Party’ take over Congress? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Could the “Tea Party� take over Congress?
GOP tries to take out tea party-backed candidate (AP)
AP - Arms linked, Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell and her conservative backers kick up their heels and clap to the strains of an original song with lyrics befitting a tea party.
Former GOP leaders predict cultural shift with tea party (CQPolitics.com)
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Sarah Palin in Wasilla for 9/11 Rally
Well, I'm sorry I'm late. We had a bunch of kid activities today, and the kids come first, OK, so... we're taking care of that, but first let me ask you - Do you looove your freedom? We do love our freedom so what we do is we think of vets and we have some vets right here and we have vets all over this crowd. Raise your hand if you've served in the past or are presently serving in the United States military. We love you and we salute you! God bless you guys. Thank you guys so much! You're why we are here -- why we are free -- why we have these protections in our Constitution that only you can secure so we thank our vets. It's just really really good to be home. Tonight I think I'll see some of you at a Glenn Beck event that we have in Anchorage. Woohoo!I know. What would we do without Fox News? I don't know.
We've had a busy time getting to travel around the United States and share the message of really the reform in this country that we need. The reform it's not a fundamental transformation of America that some would want to instill upon us but it is a restoration of America and the values that we hold so dear. That's been our message. And I tell ya where that springs from though, is the roots here in Alaska. I tell my parents all the time there is no better gift that they could have given me than besides such an appreciation for family and for faith and patriotism, it's been an upbringing in America in this most perfect state in America -- Alaska, where we are independent and we have the pioneering spirit that more of America should hopefully get to look into the state and understand and really try to emulate because it's that pioneering spirit that America needs more of.
It's a spirit that really wants to value work ethic and value family and value country and not ask much of government. We just want government on our side. We don't want it against us, we just want it on our side so it's not a lot to ask. But that... that value, that belief, it comes from being an Alaskan. There is no place that I would rather be than with you on a day like this - patriots in Alaska. Patriots here who have taken time out of their day to say that we will never forget 9/11, nine years ago - we will never forget and we all commit to never letting it happen again. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart for not just welcoming me in my home town but for being who you are, true patriots holding on to time tested truths. Knowing that... knowing some basic principles that again, the rest of America can learn from so many Alaskans who believe this - those time tested truths that are based on the government that governs least, governs best. And the knowledge that it's our Constitution that provides the best path - the best blueprint for a more perfect union and the knowledge that our men and women in uniform are a source for good throughout this world and that's nothing to apologize for. So you Alaskans who are so proud to be American, I'm with you. I love you. God bless you and God bless the United States of America. Thank you guys!
The remarks were off the cuff, and only one sentence in her five minute address referenced the tragedy of nine years earlier on 9/11 -- never mentioning the towers, or the Pentagon or Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, or the loss of life, or the political fallout of the event here and around the world. Instead we were treated to a hodge-podge of buzzwords and rambling sentences that came out half-formed and chasing their own tails.
Mentor and mentee - Palin and Joe Miller
Immediately after her remarks, there was a prayer given, and then closing remarks and a song by local singer/songwriter Adele Morgan.
During the prayer, ten or fifteen people got up from their seats and crowded around for autographs, which Palin signed. She also spoke to admirers and posed for photographs while the program continued. Most people stayed in their seats and joined the prayer.
After the conclusion, the crowd got up and enjoyed American flag cake, several of which were provided by the Conservative Patriots Group. I made sure to catch up to Wasilla Mayor Vern Rupright who had delivered a well-crafted and thoughtful message about the day, and its place in history. I don't always agree with him, but I like him anyway. And there was no doubt that he had put considered thought and effort into his address to the crowd, and I thanked him.
Wasilla Mayor Vern Rupright addresses the crowd. Senatorial candidate Joe Miller looks on
Palin continued to sign autographs and pose for pictures as she worked her way out. Later that night she appeared at an event with Glenn Beck at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage.
Video of the speech available HERE.
DeMint Backs O’Donnell, Lamontagne (CQPolitics.com)
Koch Fires Back at The New Yorker
David Koch is steaming.“It's hateful. It's ludicrous. And it's plain wrong.”The object of his ire is a 9,963 word story in The New Yorker magazine, published last week which accuses David, his brother Charles, and Koch Industries of…well, just about everything: Secretly funding the Tea Party movement, secretly manipulating the Smithsonian, along with, not-so-secretly polluting the planet, stealing oil from Native American land, denying the existence of climate change, and promoting carcinogens—all in the self-interest of making...
Bank Bailout Spawned Obama and Dems’ Tea Party Problem
The Wall Street bailout was the root of all evil. Or at least a lot of it.
Ever since Adam ate that apple, people have struggled against the evil that rushed into the world. And ever since the fall of 2008 when the feds bailed out the banks, President Obama has had to fight the bad political karma left over from the Wall Street rescue.
President Obama has almost no chance of getting Congress to approve the vital jobs initiatives he proposed this week. And the opposition to his initiatives, which are so vital to economic growth, is the residue of President Bush’s Temporary Assistance Rescue Program, which candidate Obama favored and the Democratic Congress approved.
[See a photo gallery of Bush’s legacy.]
Opponents of President Obama’s domestic policy proposals, including the Tea Party and the Party of Tea (the GOP) have used the bank and billionaire bailout as an an example of the bad things that happen when the federal government intervenes in the free market. Sure the banks survived, but no one did anything to help the millions of Americans who lost their jobs and their homes during the same period. Sure the banks prospered and they are now awash in profits, but the banks did not use the money to free up the credit that the economy so desperately needs.
[Check out our editorial cartoons on the Tea Party.]
Citibank used millions of TARP dollars to secure the naming rights to the new ballpark for the New York Mets. And while Citibank is now very profitable, the economy for most Americans is as bad as the Mets are.
A lot of the Tea Party members are people who lost jobs or pensions in the Bush recession and are angry that the feds did a lot for financial fat cats but nothing for them. My guess is that there wouldn’t be a Tea Party if there hadn’t been a bank bailout. President Obama exacerbated the situation when he brought Timothy Geithner, one of the architects of the bailout, into his cabinet as secretary of the Treasury.
Barack Obama and congressional Democrats share in the blame for the opposition to vital economic programs that the country badly needs. The failure of Democrats to take a populist stand against Wall Street poisoned the well for President Obama’s economic agenda. When Democrats bit into the corporate apple in the fall of 2008, they created many of the problems which they are dealing with now.
Palin backing O’Donnell campaign (AP)
AP - Sarah Palin on Thursday endorsed Christine O'Donnell's Senate bid in Delaware, hoping to give another tea party-backed candidate a final push to defeat an establishment favorite.
Palin Backing O’Donnell Campaign In Delaware
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday endorsed Christine O'Donnell's Senate bid in Delaware, hoping to give another Tea Party-backed candidate a final push to defeat establishment favorite, Rep. Mike Castle.
Boehner’s A ‘Country Club, Cocktail-Drinking, Cigarette-Smoking Republican’
Though President Obama has portrayed the Ohio Republican as leader of the "party of no," political observers see Boehner as more mainstream than Tea Party and apt to work with Democrats on occasion.
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Can the Tea Party Cross the Delaware?
Delaware 2010: Tea Party Looks To Delaware For Next Victory
In any other election cycle, at any other moment in Delaware’s political history, Mike Castle would be coasting to victory. A two-time governor and longtime member of Congress, Castle, 71, has $2.6 million in the bank, a statewide approval rating in the high 60s and the backing of just about every official Republican institution in the country, including the Delaware state party, which in May endorsed him to run for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat.
Tea Party’s negative rating continues to climb
In the latest NBC/WSJ poll, 36 percent of respondents said they have a somewhat or very negative opinion of the movement, compared with 28 percent who said they view it positively.
