These Tea Party congressmen. They are nothing but common people, just like you and me. Right? One-fifth of the 50 richest members of Congress are freshman House Republicans sent to Washington last year with strong Tea Party support, according to The Hill’s 50 Wealthiest for 2011. Ohio’s Rep. Jim Renacci, the wealthiest of the 87 […]
This right here is a big doozy when it comes to the hypocrisy of Tea Party politicians: Tea Party aligned Georgia Rep. Tom Graves (R), who castigates Washington for fiscal irresponsibility, reached an out of court settlement Wednesday after he was sued for defaulting on a $2.2 million loan — which his attorney argued is […]
Wow – what a potty mouth: Hamilton County Republican chairman Alex Triantafilou accuses Rep. Steve Driehaus of using ‘a vulgarity’ in a fundraising email, and is demanding an apology. The vulgarity: “tea bagger.” The Driehaus campaign calls the GOP release “nonsense” and says “no offense was intended.” Spokeswoman Melissa Wideman cites the Oxford American Dictionary […]
Last night Glenn Reynolds posted this little tidbit about Fox pulling the plug on Hannity’s show from the Cincinnati Tea Party: ANOTHER UPDATE: The Cincinnati Tea Party folks tell me that they had no deal with Hannity — he had a deal with the University of Cincinnati, and they had a deal with the University […]
With Sean Hannity being forced by Fox top brass to cancel the live airing of his show from the Cincinnati Tea Party yesterday, we are given a new look into the Tea Party. I touched on it last night, but decided it really deserves it’s own space on the blog. When it was announced to […]
And we can thank Tom Coburn for this: Extended unemployment benefits will temporarily expire for thousands of Americans on Monday because the Senate went on its spring recess without approving a one-month deadline extension. The extension, which had bipartisan support, would have cost about $10 billion, but a lone Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn, said no […]
It really isn’t a lesson, but more of a reminder. Democrats suck at politics. To the Democrats out there acting shocked over the Brown win, all I can say is “wake up!” We don’t need to turn back the pages of history more than a few months to remind us how bad Democrats are at […]