Anita MonCrief, former ACORN employee, turned whistle blower, turned conservative political activist, turned American Majority spokeswoman has another new role: Tea Party founder. Anita along with Houston native Earl Johnson have created the Crispus Attucks Tea Party. Learn more here. Anita and Earl attended the True The Vote Summit sponsored by the King’s Street Patriots here in Houston, Texas. I got to speak to them | Read More »
In the opening of the not-nominated-for-an-Oscar movie Waiting For Superman, a school administrator who teaches disadvantaged inner-city children reveals his own disappointment as a child to find that Superman wasn’t real. If he’s not real, who would save us, he wondered. Republican gatherings, especially this year, have been similarly maudlin. People are waiting for Reagan. And the truth is, Ronald Reagan is dead. There will | Read More »
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Matt Kibbe, President of Freedom Works, joined me at CPAC for a joint interview, last Friday. We talked about two things: The future of the Tea Party and the Balanced Budget Amendment. Both topics are subject to lots of controversy. In fact, there’s been much discussion that a Balanced Budget Amendment would mean, axiomatically, that taxes would increase. When I | Read More »
Last week, Senator Rubio debated the necessity of the Tea Party Caucus. I wrote what I saw as the pros and cons of joining. It seems that he’s decided to skip it. Javier Majarres reports Rubio’s comment: ” Why do we need something in addition to the steering committee?…My concern is that politicians all of a sudden start co-opting the mantle of “Tea Party”. If | Read More »
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) may join the Tea Party Caucus. Should he? So far, the Senate Tea Party caucus consists of Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), Mike Lee (R-UT) and founder, Rand Paul (R-KY). What are the planks of the Teaparty caucus? Senator Lee says this: “The Tea Party movement is a movement of everyday Americans who have grown tired of Washington playing by their own | Read More »
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