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Conservatives Back Boehner in Calls to Fire Geithner

By | 08.25.10 | 5:32 pm

Seems like just yesterday liberals were the ones calling for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s head. Now that House Minority Leader John Boehner has spoken, however, Geithner’s become a figurehead on the right for what Boehner is calling, “19 months of government-as-community organizer. It hasn’t worked. Our fresh start More…

RedState Backs Burns in PA-12 Special Election

By | 02.25.10 | 12:53 pm

The influential conservative site gets into some of the issues I covered in my story today about the sleeper special election in PA-12 — the seat opened up by the death of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) — and backs a first-time candidate against the man who gave Murtha his More…

The New Conservative Hierarchy

By | 02.18.10 | 8:49 am

Ken Vogel previews CPAC by highlighting the new power and prominence of people like Erick Erickson of RedState, Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots, and Andrew Breitbart, who don’t share the baggage of the leaders who “flocked to Washington after their efforts culminated in the election of President More…

Learning to Manage the Fringe

By | 02.18.10 | 6:00 am

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off in Washington today, and one would-be conservative star — Debra Medina — won’t be missed.

In late January, polls showed Medina’s campaign for governor of Texas surging from single digits — the usual terrain of first-time candidates given to talk of “revolution” More…

Vote for CPAC’s Journalist and Blogger of the Year!

By | 01.25.10 | 4:49 pm

The Conservative Political Action Conference is holding an online vote for two big prizes — the 2010 Blogger of the Year and the 2010 Journalist of the Year. Nominees after the jump:

Tea Party Convention Drama Fueled by Emerging GOP Alliance

By | 01.14.10 | 12:13 am

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Late last year, Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation came to Eric Odom with a proposition. Odom’s group, the American Liberty Alliance–a free market, anti-tax group launched in March 2009, after its leaders had helped put together the first Tea Party protests–could sign on with the National Tea Party More…

RedState: Palin Might Be ‘Ruining’ Herself By Attending Tea Party Convention

By | 01.11.10 | 5:25 pm

Erick Erickson (whom, full disclosure, I’d asked about the story earlier today) posts a scorching attack on next month’s Tea Party Convention in Nashville, which has been attracting some flack for its high cost (minimum ticket price, $349) and rumors of huge speaker fees. Comparing the event to a More…

RedState, Club for Growth Go After the Newest House Republican

By | 12.22.09 | 11:43 am

Erick Erickson, in a show of serious ideological consistency, labels Rep. Parker Griffith’s party switch a “huge blow to Obama” and quickly puts the heat on the newest Republican member of Congress.

Here are Griffith’s earmark requests. He voted for Pelosi for Speaker. He’s actually been more regularly with

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Steve King to Lead Another March on Congress

By | 11.06.09 | 3:07 pm

Erick Erickson of RedState, whose stature in the conservative movement has risen with the Doug Hoffman insurrection, blasts out an announcement of a second anti-health care bill protest on the steps of Congress. Whole e-mail after the jump:

Leon Panetta Is Not Leaving CIA

By | 08.26.09 | 3:47 pm

Crack intelligence reporter Erick Erickson posted that he was hearing “a very credible rumor” that CIA Director Leon Panetta has “dispatched a resignation letter to Barack Obama on vacation.” And what the hell, I figured I’d chase it. People are speculating that Panetta’s on the verge of quitting More…