Arizona Tea Party Leader Scraps ‘Be Mein’ Hitler Valentines
We’re still sorting out the crazies… TPM Livewire Stephen Viramontes, the interim state director of the tea party group FreedomWorks in Arizona, canceled plans to distribute Valentine’s Day cards to...
View Article3 reasons why the Tea Party is losing August
Tea Party darling Rand Paul, for one, isn’t exactly stumping against immigration reform during his recess. The Week Town hall season was supposed to be the anti-immigration fringe’s time to shine. What...
View ArticleThe right gets confused by its own lie
Salon Right-wing groups claim Congress is exempted from Obamacare. But five months ago, they had a very different story A good lie never dies, and so it is that we get Texas Sen. Ted Cruz telling Mary...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Right’s Obamacare obsession
The Raw Story This summer’s heated battles over the implementation of “Obamacare” are a microcosm of a much larger and longstanding ideological clash over the role of the government in society. The...
View ArticleWhat’s the problem with Obamacare? The ‘Obama’ part, of course
An addendum to yesterday’s article on this issue… Mario Piperni This toon by Gustavo Rodriguez says it all in regards to the immoral war conservatives are waging on the Affordable Care Act. This toon...
View ArticleTea party groups still want Obamacare gutted
Some tea party leaders, however, say the protest has probably gone as far as it can go. | AP Photo Politico You go through a whole government shutdown so you can kill Obamacare dead, and all you get is...
View ArticleBreaking: Republicans May Be Ready To Take Senate Deal: ‘It’s All Over’
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, joined by members of the Republican Caucus, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 From left are, Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla., House Majority...
View ArticleEating Their Own: The Rise Of Obamacare McCarthyism
TPMDC When House Republicans unveiled a proposal in the fall aimed at avoiding a dead-end government shutdown over Obamacare, the conservative backlash was swift and brutal: they called it a...
View ArticleRight-Wing PACs’ Formula: Lose Races, Rake In the Cash
AFP/Getty No surprise here… The Daily Beast As Tea Party-affiliated Super PACs keep losing elections, their grassroots fundraising keeps going up, up, up. What’s the mentality there? Despite losing...
View ArticleRachel Maddow: Conservatism Riddled With Scams And Rackets (video)
Rachel Maddow reviews the many ways the conservative movement is rife with scammers who are more interested in making a buck off the fear and paranoia of conservative media audiences than they are in...
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