Tea Party revolt

Gee, no one could have predicted this.
The Senate Post Office has recently seen an influx of envelopes containing tea bags addressed to Senate offices. The envelopes have been irradiated, x-rayed, opened and tested by the Senate Post Office and have been cleared and deemed safe for delivery. However, it is possible some of the envelopes [...]

Ben Smith calls Judge James Robertson’s memo dismissing Hollister v. Soetoro a “birther smackdown,” and he’s right. The suit, which — as the more racist birthers like to do — refers to the president of the United States as “Barry Soetoro.”
This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those [...]

As Dave Weigel notes, the Tea Party movement to protest the mortgage rescue plan and other government bailouts rolls on, with a planned rally Friday in front of the White House. The revolt over bailouts got a big boost last week with the televised rant by CNBC’s Rick Santelli against helping troubled borrowers, and only [...]