Sentences with phrase «of tea party conservatives»
In choosing him, Obama — whose education policies have sparked backlash from a strange - bedfellows alliance of tea party conservatives and teachers unions — is choosing continuity.
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An effort to pass a pared down version of President Obama's request was blocked by a group of Tea Party conservatives.
Not exact matches
If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.
But as that occurred before the advent of the Tea Party, which was sparked in large part out of concern over the government's profligate spending, such an effort this time around would likely run into greater resistance, particularly from rank - and - file conservative House Republicans.
Once the darling of the Tea Party, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has faced an intense backlash of criticism from the conservative wing of his party over his support for comprehensive immigration reParty, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has faced an intense backlash of criticism from the conservative wing of his party over his support for comprehensive immigration reparty over his support for comprehensive immigration reform.
Another beneficiary of the Tea Party wave, Mulvaney serves on the Budget Committee, and earned conservative cred as a co-author of the Republican «Cut, Cap and Balance» legislation.
Stutzman was elected in the Tea Party wave of 2010, and since then has racked up a staunchly conservative record in Congress.
All this suggests that the assimilation of Establishment Republicans and Tea Party conservatives began long before their Wednesday night lovefest.
A staunch social and fiscal conservative, Broun is a member of both the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.
Representative Trey Gowdy, the 49 - year - old from South Carolina chosen by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to chair the panel, is a Christian conservative elected to Congress in 2010 on the wave of the Tea Party movement.
«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.
The top Republican lawmaker in charge of oversight of the IRS set a hearing to probe the agency's admission that it gave extra scrutiny to conservative «Tea Party» groups.
Hensarling — a polite and low - decibel conservative with a deadpan sense of humor and an occasionally sharp tongue — has become a tea party favorite by relentlessly striving to cut federal spending and shrink the federal government.
Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the House.
The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund is hitting back at what it calls the «bullying tactics» of the left by calling for advertisers to pull their support for the Ingraham Angle, the Fox News program hosted by popular conservative commentator Laura Ingraham.
But a group of the House's most conservative and Tea Party - sympathetic lawmakers are concerned the momentum might be headed in the wrong direction, and they're cooking up alternatives to rein in the president.
Even tea party groups that have backed Akin in the past said he should step aside for the good of the party and the conservative cause.
Unfortunately, we are run over by the most radical group of conservatives — Tea Party - Evangelicals.
Robber Baron Romney and the founders of the Tea Party (Koch brothers & other billionaires) are using religious conservatives.
The survey found that most Tea Party members reflect the views of religious conservatives, as opposed to libertarians, on social issues.
About half of the Americans who identify as part of the Tea Party movement say they are also part of the religious right or conservative Christian movement, according to a survey released last year by the Public Religion Research Institute.
«There's really no daylight between those the two groups,» says Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion group the Susan B. Anthony List, referring to Tea Party and religious conservatives.
When you look at the GOP or the more conservative Tea Party section of the American, of course evangelicals are going to hold a widely diverse group of opinions.
Conservative Christians did claim some victories Tuesday night, including helping the GOP retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives and helping elect tea party favorite Ted Cruz as a U.S. senator from Texas.
Those kind of beliefs, while almost mainstream among Tea Party members and some Evangelical Conservatives in the deep South, are premised upon ignorance, malevolence and racial hatred.
«Tea party» takes health - care protest to the Hill Hundreds of conservative activists gather outside the U.S. Capitol to protest health - care legislation, which is approaching a final vote in the House this week.
«Thirty percent of Republicans say Obama is Muslim, Pew found, about twice as many who said that during the 2008 campaign» This is an example of the distortions, lies, and disinformation advanced by the uber - conservatives, Tea Party, and racists.
I know that a lot of these so call conservative Christians and the tea party are driven by hatred and bigotry for Obama.
Last November I pointed out that a significant faction of the Tea Party is a subset of the religious right and that, despite the perception of the movement being comprised of economically - oriented libertarians, the majority held social conservative views.
An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).
As a matter of fact, the CDU is much like the Tea Party here in the states, packed with social conservatives.
There were plenty of Tea Party rock stars who spoke at the event including Christine O'Donnell, who may have some explaining to do to social conservatives after comments about her dabbling in witchcraft surfaced over the weekend.
(CNN)- For all the attention paid to the clout of fiscally focused tea party conservatives and of the primacy of jobs in the 2012 election, Rick Santorum's trifecta victories Tuesday night are a good reminder of the powerful role religious conservatives play in the GOP.
The extremist faction of the GOP / Tea Party has been rooting out the rational moderates by disparaging them with RINO labels and condemning those who don't toe the party line through conservative litmus tParty has been rooting out the rational moderates by disparaging them with RINO labels and condemning those who don't toe the party line through conservative litmus tparty line through conservative litmus tests.
The first, characteristic of many conservatives (such as the so - called West Coast Straussians and students of Fox Professor of Tea Party Studies Glenn Beck), is to proudly proclaim that we don't need no (to quote the unmatched eloquence of our vice president) bleepin» foreign aid.
Fact: Among Americans who consider themselves a part of the Tea Party movement, nearly half (47 percent) say they consider themselves to be part of the religious right or conservative Christian movement.
This much is now clear: a majority of Americans who identify with the Tea Party are old - style Christian conservatives in new clothing: they now quote the Declaration of Independence more than the Bible (although some do both), and attend rallies led by Glenn Beck instead of Pat Robertson.
These group of people are now called «The Conservative Republicans / Tea Party».
Fact: Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement make up just 11 percent of the adult population - half the size of the current conservative Christian movement (22 percent).
«We found actually that among the Tea Party, rather than being libertarians, at least on the issues of abortion and same - sex marriage, they're actually social conservatives,» the survey's lead author, Robert Jones, said Tuesday.
Those of us who care will continue to try to get guns out of the hands of children, but it will be a difficult fight because Tea Party evangelical christian conservatives will be fighting tooth and nail to keep guns as available as possible.
It's refreshing to see prominent followers of Jesus like Chuck Colson point out that not all of the conservative dogmatic mantras of the tea party movement correspond with the teachings of Christ.
The coalition is drawing attention because it has the potential of providing the infrastructure for a grassroots conservative movement that now includes tea party activists and social conservatives.
Tea Party Patriots believe that the movie Deliverance is an accurate depiction of conservative christian life in America.
@Tea Partier... hmmm, when I walk into the average nursing home in this «Great Christian Nation» of ours, I have to ask how much you and your Tea Party friends care about the elderly... I am amazed at how little conservatives, Evangelicals and the latest version Tea Party members care so little for the living except their own tribe in the so - called «light» of their scriptures...
That is all you hear from Rand Paul and all the Conservative Tea Party they are the ones that are taking away our rights in the name of being a Christian for there religion.
He as the king of Gods kingdom will change things on earth he doesn't need conservatives, republicans, tea party evangelicals, Muslim brotherhood... He doesn't need party's to make changes... He himself will to changes!
It just irks me that the founding father of the Tea Party gets no respect from the Tea Party even though he is the only true fiscal conservative in the race.
Best Headline: Bruce Reyes Chow with «10 Things This Liberal, Social Justice Christian, Progressive Democrat Has in Common with Conservative, Evangelical Christian, Tea Party Republicans» ``... At the core of our discourse should not be an obsession with winning the future, but our common yearning to discover where God is leading us.
He is a darling of the far - fight, especially among Tea Party members and Christian conservatives, which bodes well for him during the primary season.