Posts tagged “Tea Party”
Pew Report & “King of Bain” – Evidence of OWS’ Success
Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center released a new report that showed a strong increase of americans acutely aware of class conflict. While it explicitly mentions the Occupy Wall Street movement in its report, the report did not speak directly to the origins of the increased awareness (which is generally impossible to determine anyway). [...]
How Many House Republicans Does It Take To Screw Over The Light Bulb Industry?
The House GOP’s inclusion of a policy rider in the $1 trillion “omnibus” spending bill that prevents the Department of Energy from phasing out Incandescent light bulbs is not sitting well with the light bulb industry: Big companies like General Electric, Philips and Osram Sylvania spent big bucks preparing for the standards, and the industry [...]
Buyer’s Remorse
The Pew Research Center has some startling new numbers about Tea Party favorability in alleged “Tea Party Districts”: Another snippet from this poll indicates a sharp decline in Republican Party favorability in Tea Party Districts: The Republican Party’s image also has declined substantially among people who live in Tea Party districts. Currently, 41% say they [...]
Thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street Protest
Yesterday evening, I took the time to check out what all the commotion was about in Lower Manhattan. When I first heard about the Occupy Wall Street protest two weeks ago, I was honestly unimpressed. Although I applauded its anti-consumerist, anti-corporate character, I failed to understand how they would hone those beliefs into practical and [...]
Rigging the Vote 2012
In case you haven’t heard yet, many conservative-leaning state legislatures are doing whatever they can to disenfranchise as many citizens as possible from voting in the upcoming 2012 Presidential elections. In their effort to prevent Obama from being a two-term president, they have resorted to passing all types of new laws that tweak the election [...]
Enter Rick Perry
I’m back from my two-week hiatus, which I spent traveling around the east coast. Nearing the end I had to cut my vacation a day short, under threat of Irene, and I headed back to Syracuse on a last minute train ticket. But, I’m back now, and during the last two weeks one of the [...]
Are they admitting that they are fake?
Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks has gone into crisis mode overnight. After cultivating the Tea Party’s “brand” over the past three years as an organically spawning libertarian movement, they now have to deal with Mitt Romney stepping on their (astro)turf. Romney plans on attending a Tea Party rally this weekend in New Hampshire to begin his new [...]
Constituent Backlash
Town halls have just not been the same since the fiery Republican talking-points inspired health care rage summer of 2009. Instead of mostly calm civic discourse, they now are predominately characterized by wild screams, hoots, and hollers regardless of the elected officials’ political orientation. Lately, the tides been turning against Republican Congressmembers who, according to [...]
A friendly reminder from the New York Times about the Tea Party
The New York Times ran a scathing Op-Ed piece today called “Crashing the Tea Party” that examines the political makeup of voters who identify themselves with the Tea Party. Using longitudinal polling data that looked at voters’ political attitudes during 2006 and 2011, the writers found that the Tea Party was not – Spoiler Alert! [...]
The Politics of Middle Earth… er.. the Debt Ceiling
A recent back-and-forth between Senator John McCain and the Tea Party reminds us all about the fun metaphors that can be used to understand Conservatism’s Manichean worldview of good v. evil. From CNN: In a Senate floor speech laced with sarcasm and stings, the Arizona Republican aimed especially harsh fire at the tea party Wednesday. McCain [...]