Sentences with phrase «over the tea party»

The Republican civil war that erupted over the Tea Party's disregard of big business's agenda threatens to turn (big) business brother against (small) business brother in the 2014 Republican primaries.

Washington — U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna held off a Republican primary challenge in the new 22nd Congressional District, and was on his way tonight to a convincing victory over tea party - backed Michael Kicinski, of Earlville.

Washington (CNN)-- House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, told conservative activists Thursday that the Republican Party should not try to take over the Tea Party movement, but rather work closely with these grassroots activists.

Not exact matches

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.

Tea Party Republicans, for example, might worry that a straight up and down vote on trade might give the president too much influence over economic policy.

He's betting that he can broaden his Tea Party following by winning over social conservatives, and use a victory in Iowa — where he's in a virtual dead heat with Donald Trump in a new Des Moines Register / Bloomberg poll released Wednesday — as a springboard to success in South Carolina.

The Tea Party gets put on ice: The Republicans have just had a humiliating year, full of self - inflicted wounds and infighting over the government shutdown and debt ceiling impasse.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

Unfortunately, we are run over by the most radical group of conservatives — Tea Party - Evangelicals.

As a Tea Party supporter I will vote for Obama any day over these Israel shills.

Now that machine they created (Tea Party etc) is running them all over and they're all but assuring a 2nd term for him.

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.

I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for work.

The Tea Party in particular, with its belief in Jeffersonian ideas, has been responsible for re-introducing the Constitution into the public debate, a place that it has not held in the same way for over a century.

More than half of self - identified Tea Party members say America is a Christian nation, while just over four out of 10 white evangelicals believe that - the same as the proportion of the general population that says so.

The tea party rallies here in DC are frightening, there is racist innuendo and propoganda all over the place.

Glen Beck is The DRAGON of MARDUK — The BEAST of the APOCALYPSE — THE HIGH PRIEST of MAMMON — THESE are The GODS of The Tea Party which is Just another MASK of POWER and DOMINATION of The Powerless of GREED and The DEPRAVITY of the Worship of SELF over GOD.

Rick Perry and his Tea Party friends would run Jesus over with a Brinks Security Truck on the way to the Koch Brothers bank laughing all the way.

Our strategy is to anger Hispanics by freaking out about the illegal aliens, to anger women by reducing their control over their own bodies and lessening their health care choices, to anger Blacks by calling the NAACP and MLK racist, to alienate moderates with our extremist ideologies like Tea Party and Limbaugh and the Religious Right.

It's as if the Tea Party is taking over one part of baseball discussion, and that's not right.

barefeet, bicycles, bruised knees, sandals, backyard camping, tea parties with dolls and cats, plants in the ground, sunshine, sandals, spring peepers, and marshmallows toasted over a fire... oh, now that was a spring weekend!

I saw the Beauty and the Beast Tea Party Set and now I am having anxiety over what I have bought already and what I should take back with these new options.

Bellavia backed businessman and tea party candidate Jack Davis last time out over Corwin.

Fascinating article over at Google's Politics & Elections blog: their analytics team looked at search trends for Occupy Wall Street and compared them with those for the Tea Party, and the results are most interesting.

The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight over abortion access in 2011.

It's not clear the conflict between the Republican establishment and the so - called tea party is over.

New York's Tea Party movement — which last fall helped drive the tax - protest defeat of two county executives — has been ga - ga of late over Buffalo millionaire developer Carl Paladino, who proposes to spend $ 10 million of his own money to run for governor this fall.

The 15 minutes of fame for the TEA Party is over.

Rep. Mario Diaz - Balart, a Florida Republican working on a House immigration bill, spoke briefly in Spanish at the McMorris Rogers event and was heckled by one of the tea party protestors who had wandered over and yelled, «Learn English!»

The Tea Party Express just ran over its second establishment Republican in the past few weeks, and since Delaware's victorious Christine O'Donnell doesn't seem to stand much of a chance in the fall, this time the Democrats are likely to be the real beneficiaries.

Also, I'm not even going to try to parse the internal battle going on in the Buffalo area Tea Party movement, which has been roiling over NY - 26 for some time now, thanks to the GOP's rejection of Iraq War vet David Bellavia's candidacy.

The Tea Party Express just ran over its second establishment Republican in the past few weeks, and since Delaware's victorious Christine O'Donnell doesn't seem to stand much of a chance...

We must win the 2nd American Civil War, against the Republican Tea Party, Anti Gov. forces, or our traditional right to a decent life economically speaking is over in these United States.

The anxiety in the tea party - infused days was over government spending and accountability, leading some Democrats to neutralize Republicans on economic issues by urging fiscal restraint during the recovery.

True the Vote, a tea party linked group that supports restrictive voting rules, sent out a fundraising appeal Tuesday warning that «Hillary Clinton's attorney» had filed suit over Ohio's voting rules, and adding: «The stage is being set right now for a 2016 ballot box battle unlike anything we've ever seen.»

Today's «capitulation» (no doubt the operative Tea Party term) by Speaker John Boehner on putatively ending the shutdown invites the question: Who is more brilliant, Senator Ted «over the top» Cruz or Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform?

Update 4:10 pm A Republican Super PAC has spent over $ 500,000 opposing a New York tea party candidate in the June 24th Republican primary.

Once the primaries are over and we see who is up and who is down and they start tracking likely voters (Tea Party & very upset Republicans) not to mention those pesky Independents.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, appearing on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» earlier today, said the Senate's Republican caucus is in danger of being taken over by the tea party should more candidates like Texas GOP candidate Ted Cruz succeed.

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If Palin does make a stab at presidential politics, she'll have a natural following among Tea Party activists, whose grassroots network is fueled by anger over the growth of the federal government and President Barack Obama's policies.

Over the weekend, while stumping for the Orthodox Jewish vote, Paladino, who actively courted the Tea Party, basically said that gay people are mentally ill and should be ashamed.

And the race between Republican state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, Democrat Kathleen Hochul, the Erie County clerk, and Jack Davis, a once - conservative Democrat who is running as a so - called tea party candidate, is becoming more and more a referendum on House Republican plans to alter Medicare, as both sides filling the airwaves with television ads attacking the other side over Medicare.

BY SHERLY JOURDAIN Over 30 concerned citizens attended the documentary viewing of «Agenda: Grinding America Down» held by The Rockland County Tea Party Patriots on Sunday.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, a conservative who has received Tea Party support, sent out campaign mailers over the past month accusing Hanna of voting against Second Amendment rights.

The billionaire leans over to the Tea Party member and says «Be careful or the state worker is going to take your part of your cookie.»»

The war of words between Paul, King and (related to Sandy aid) Christie has escalated over the past several weeks and comes at a time when the Republican Party is continuing to experience an internal struggle between the recently empowered Tea Party / Libertarian set and the ever - shrinking circle of moderates that hasn't yet given up hope of reclaiming ideological control.

Was not Hayworth endorsed by the Tea Party over McCain?

FreedomWorks, which has provided much of the organizational heft behind the Tea Party movement, clashed with the RNC last fall when they endorsed an independent conservative in a New York congressional race over the GOP - backed candidate.