Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had barely begun to give his acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention when a clamor went up in the upper levels of St. Paul’s XCel Center. Adam Kokesh, a marine who had become a leader of Iraq Veterans Against the More…
TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” once again last night to talk about recent GOP efforts to co-opt the Tea Party message ahead of the 2010 elections. Watch the clip after the jump.
ThinkProgress does a quick wrap of yesterday’s “Code Red” protest that leaves out some context.
In the morning, there was also a vehicle driving around Capitol Hill with a large “Kill the Bill” sign and a “Merry Christmas” banner (as well as a crossed-out photograph of two
Here’s a short video from the gathering of Tea Party activists today in Washington, before they set off to stage a “die-in” in Senate office buildings to protest health care reform. In the clip, Sacramento-based activist Mark Meckler explainsto the crowd that President Obama was trying to distract attention away More…
“Is this it?” some asked.
The few dozen Tea Party activists who made it to upper Senate Park in Washington this morning were confused at the size of the crowd. The night before, some of them had attended a FreedomWorks-sponsored workshop about the day’s events–a “die-in” during which activists would More…
Ken Vogel has the run-down. It’s not a lot of money being passed around so far, but it’s the brand every conservative wants.
Jake Tapper at ABC News reports that the Obama administration will announce on Tuesday that at least some Guantanamo Bay detainees are headed to the federal prison in Thomson, Ill. Just how many of the inmates at Thomson will come from the Guantanamo Bay prison is unclear, though.
As I’ve More…
A few hundred New Yorkers gathered in a cold and rainy Foley Square in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to protest the Obama administration’s decision to try the suspected Sept. 11 attackers in a civilian federal court in New York. Organized by the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition, speakers ranging More…
Via Evan McMorris-Santoro, I see that National Review’s Jay Nordlinger has written a history of how “teabagger” came to be used as a catch-all pejorative term for Tea Party activists. I also see that Nordlinger got his facts wrong.
The first big day for this movement was Tax Day,
I mentioned in my story about last night’s premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” that Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) expressed some regrets about not shouting something during the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress. After the jump, there’s video of DeMint’s remarks.
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