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The Minnesota Independent reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is scheduled to join previously announced headliner Sarah Palin at the National Tea Party Convention to be held Feb. 4-6  at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.
From The Minnesota Independent:
[O]rganizers of the National Tea Party Convention tweeted that Bachmann would be a speaker at the Feb. [...]

The office of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, just issued a press release announcing the launch of an investigation into “Climategate,” the quasi-scandal involving the release of more than a thousand hacked emails that reveal agenda-driven behavior on the part of climate scientists. To no [...]

Via Brian Faughnan, here’s former Rep. J.D. Hayworth testing the waters for a 2010 challenge to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
There is something you can do right now…you will find attached an invitation to an event scheduled for Dec. 5, featuring Joe Arpaio, “America’s Toughest Sheriff.” “Sheriff Joe” has very graciously agreed to raise funds for [...]

This is a surprising result from Public Policy Polling, the occasionally partisan group which nonetheless called the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races accurately. Mitt Romney’s favorable rating among Republican voters has fallen to 48 percent–a plurality, but a weak one. And the trend lines are even more interesting. Since April, when PPP started asking [...]

It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed o.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics.
Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Joint Committee on Taxation to analyze the [...]

Brian Frederick’s debunking of Andrew Malcolm’s claim that “the approval gap between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin is shrinking” is well done, although Malcolm’s much-linked argument has probably gotten too far around the Web to be really demolished. Frederick’s main point, however, is solid. Public figures have “favorable” ratings; they also have “approval” ratings. The [...]

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” last night to talk about the forthcoming movie, “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” with guest-host Larry O’Donnell. Video after the jump.

Here are some stark — if not entirely surprising — numbers from the latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the 2010 Arizona gubernatorial race. Out of four potential Republican contenders, anti-illegal immigration crusader and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the only one who leads the likely Democratic front-runner Terry Goddard, the state’s popular attorney general, [...]

Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous “socialist” resolution, that would aim to prevent future NY-23 disasters by requiring that candidates agree to at least seven of 10 issue promises in order to receive financial support from the RNC. After [...]

During this morning’s American Spectator breakfast with journalists, Carly Fiorina, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in California, fielded a friendly question about whether Sarah Palin would back her over her 2010 GOP primary opponent Chuck DeVore.
“I have no idea,” said Fiorina. “You’ll have to ask Sarah Palin. She’s on a mega book [...]