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Opinion: GOP to Tea Party -- Your Votes, Not Your Ideas

(Sept. 22) -- I had a good chuckle at Erick Ericson's enraged piece on the Republican pledge, now being circulated by Democratic spinmeisters. Question for Erickson: What did he expect? Here is the GOP cruising to a handsome election victory. Do you seriously imagine that they would jeopardize the prospect of victory and...

Will Social Conservatives Derail the Tea Party?

WASHINGTON (Sept. 17) -- After more than a year of agitating for smaller government and fiscal austerity, the tea party may be getting religion. As opponents of abortion rights and gay marriage gathered for the 2010 Values Voters Summit to hear from Republican leaders still glowing from the primary season, signs that the...

Tea Party Boot Campers: No Money, No Problem

WASHINGTON (Aug. 9) -- Can yard signs and volunteer phone banks trump big money and TV ads this November? Tea party activists wrapping up a four-day election boot camp here say they''ll make up in "sweat equity" what they lack in political cash to get out the vote for candidates who've signed their Contract From America...

Conservatives Call BP Fund an Obama 'Shakedown'

(June 17) -- Some conservatives who've complained that President Barack Obama isn't doing enough about the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico now say he's gone too far. They're criticizing the $20 billion fund Obama just squeezed out of BP. After meeting with the oil company's leaders at the White House Wednesday, the...

Health Care Debate Enters Final Stage

WASHINGTON (March 15) -- Declaring that "every proposal has been put on the table, every argument has been made," President Barack Obama made a last-ditch appeal Monday for his health care reform plan as Democratic leaders huddled behind closed doors here to ferret out enough ayes for a vote later this week. In a rally at...

Dick Armey News From the Web

05/16/12 FreedomWorks backs Aanestad Source: Redding.com - Redding CA Republican U.S. congressional candidate Sam Aanestad today received support from FreedomWorks, one of the largest Republican organizing groups in the country.
05/09/12 I Didn't Mean to Sound So Cynical Source: Balloon Juice Just watched the opening segment on Rachel Maddow, and she and I seem to have had a mindmeld on today's announcement- it's great, but pales in comparison to what this administration has already done.
04/09/12 Armey: Dewhurst's 'daddy's money' Source: Politico The Senate campaign of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is asking for an apology from FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey for suggesting his success is due to his father's money.