Sentences with phrase «own tea party»

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.

By that stark analysis, it is McConnell and his cohort, not the Tea Party, who are on the wrong side of the trend line — and possibly the wrong side of history.

For all his tactical talent, McConnell was blind - sided by the Tea Party revolution that remade the political landscape in Kentucky and across America.

So expect plenty of politicking around the TPP, which is opposed by a disparate alliance of labor unions, some Democrats, and many Tea Party Republicans.

Tea Party supporters, naturally, scoff at such a dismissive characterization.

My opinion is that Kevin 07 and Julia's tea party by giving the stimulus package and homeowners grant to first time homebuyers @ $ 14,000.00 and $ 21,000.

The existential threat posed by an unchecked Tea Party became suddenly clear.

Tea Party freshmen led by Ted Cruz of Texas made the most of the void.

I'm going to have tea parties and sell tea leaves, and it's going to be great!»

For someone who enjoys Downton Abbey — style tea parties and whose idea of indulgence is a cup of Earl Grey every morning — no milk, no sugar — Jahshan is far from boring.

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.

This was the late»90s: Big Wreck, Tea Party, Bif Naked, we would often open for these bands.

Bachmann added that Republican presidential ticket reflects these Tea Party values, as well.

To keep their gains, the Republican Party had to follow the lead of the Tea Party, not the other way around, which led to a government shutdown they never wanted, and the resignation of their top leadership.

The main principles of the Tea Party permeate the Republican Party platform and the Republican presidential ticket, Rep. Michele Bachmann told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street.»

Big - business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, are planning to oppose several Tea Party Republican candidates in the 2014 GOP primaries.

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.

And picking a fight with the Tea Party isn't the way to maintain that coalition.

As a result, many small - business owners see the Tea Party as defending their interests against an overzealous government.

Many small - business owners support Tea Party efforts to cut personal income - tax rates, reduce regulation, and stop Obamacare.

They see the efforts of big business to get Congress to reform the tax code and cut corporate income - tax rates as a diversion from the Tea Party's fight to lower personal income - tax rates.

By throwing their support behind establishment Republicans in their disagreement with the Tea Party, big - business groups are making it harder to claim that they represent the interests of all businesses, small businesses included.

Small - business owners aren't likely to abandon the Tea Party; and being stripped of small - business support isn't good news for the GOP establishment.

However, turning on the Tea Party could hurt establishment Republicans» standing with small businesses.

Another Tea Party freshman, Graves sits on the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, and is another member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.

He is also a member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.

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 reform.

That will likely stir opposition from Tea Party members and fiscal conservatives in the House.

He'd made most of his money by illegally smuggling products like Dutch tea, glass, lead, paper, and French molasses, according to the Boston Tea Party Historical Society.

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.

If you look at the Tea Party, they are totally convinced that America is going in the wrong direction, that there is something fundamentally wrong with America, and that is a very similar feeling to what we have on the left.

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.

Does it bother you at all, Rupert, that there is a view that Fox News has contributed in a big way to the political discontent in the U.S., degraded the political process, and maybe, in spotlighting the Tea Party, even hurt the Republican Party?

In Florida, meanwhile, Governor Rick Scott — a Tea Party darling — signed a bill aimed at making it easier for banks (or whoever else owns the debt) to foreclose on a property.

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.

It then surged to a record in March, and generally has stayed above the highest levels reached during Barack Obama's presidency, a period that featured the rise of the Tea Party and a government shutdown, among other things.

The White House's strategy heading into the fall was: If you don't negotiate with «terrorists» (a.k.a Tea Party Republicans), they will stop trying to blackmail you.

By the way, we don't promote the Tea Party.

Gaetz, along with cosponsors Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Steven Palazzo of Mississippi, and Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, is associated with the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party.

The case in point, of course, is Tea Party Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who spearheaded an effort to tie the GOP's campaign to repeal Obamacare to the process of renewing funding for the federal government.

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.

As I wrote last week, one possible explanation for why Boehner and the rest of the Republican establishment have given the Tea Party so much free rein is that they fear primary challengers to the right.

There's another possible take, though: The current shutdown is a trap for the Tea Party, the product of an unspoken alliance between Democrats and pragmatic Republicans to tame the anarchists.

Who would question the senator's Tea Party credentials and the sincerity of his Obamacare hatred now?

From Tahrir Square to the Tea Party — our community organizes these demonstrations using our infrastructure for events and groups.

Modern social movements often fizzle after their moment in the national news (Occupy Wall Street and to a lesser extent the Tea Party come to mind).

«What the president wants is to move spending from, say, overseas back in this country,» said Trump's budget director, former tea party Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.

Is this remarkable episode, variously described by some observers as a Tea Party «hostage - taking» or even «suicide bombing,» going to end in the unthinkable?