As soon as the Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Dec. 24, Republicans and conservative activists started making a promise to voters. Give them a victory in the 2010 midterm elections, and they’ll repeal the bill.
“Every Republican in 2010 and 2012 will run on an More…
Tom Hill’s massive sign–a white sheet taped onto a fishing pole–said it all. On one side, in thin black letters, Hill had written “STAND FIRM WITH JOE,” a call for solidarity with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). When Hill–who lives in Connecticut–had written that, he thought Lieberman was going to block More…
One measure of Republican and conservative confidence on their campaign to block a health care bill is the presence of Rick Scott, a once-discredited hospital executive whose $1.7 billion fraud settlement has been forgotten in the wake of his millions of dollars in anti-reform TV ads. Scott will be More…
Victoria McGrane takes stock of the libertarian/liberal coalition against Ben Bernanke getting a second term at the Federal Reserve, reporting out some of the details I heard at last week’s “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” premiere. Not only is Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) teaming up with Sen. Bernie Sanders More…
Getting into Wednesday’s Washington, D.C., premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” meant walking through a steady rain into the Ronald Reagan building, a sprawling downtown trade and convention center where the economic conservative group FreedomWorks, which helped organize a number of Tea Party protests, had rented a foyer and More…
The Tea Party-bolstered group has sent a blast e-mail out to its supporters, offering strategy and talking points to block a health care reform vote.
“Over the recent August Recess,” writes FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey in the email, “we were able to arm thousands of activists with talking points that More…
After four hours of listening to libertarians, Stephanie Chrise decided to get up and get argumentative. The Texas orthodontist, in town one day early for Saturday’s massive “taxpayer march on Washington,” had just heard Yaron Brooks, the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, give a stemwinder of a speech More…
So, how many people showed up at the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington? One signal of the confusion over crowd counts came from the stage. Speakers alternately thanked a crowd that numbered in the “tens of thousands” and the “hundreds of thousands.” The source of that confusion, however, seemed to More…
As I recount in this morning’s story, the first of three days of Tea Party events in D.C. consisted of a political rally followed by direct lobbying between Tea Party activists and members of Congress — more typically, their staffs. Here is some of the material Tea Party activists got More…
Here’s a fairly representative video from the Freedom Summit — Annie Rupp, a conservative activist from Hawaii, going nuclear on the Obama administration. She took the microphone twice during the morning’s sessions, both times finishing to a rousing ovation from the crowd.
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