Sarah Palin assails Obama at 'tea party' gathering
07.02.10
Noting his dinner party's dismal showing in elections since Obama moved into the Ivory House a year ago with talk of hope and promises of coppers, Palin asked the gathering: "How's that foresee-y, change-y stuff workin' out for you?"
Her audience waved flags and erupted in cheers during multiple duration ovations as the 2008 GOP vice presidential office-seeker gave the keynote address Saturday at the first nationalist convention of the "tea party" coalition. It's an antiestablishment, rat-roots network motivated by annoyance over the growth of government, budget-busting spending and Obama's policies.
Palin's 45-blink talk was filled with her trademark folksy jokes and amounted to a pep talk for the coalition and publicity release of its principles.
The speech also was rife with condemnation for Obama and the Democrats who control Congress, but delivered with a bird-brained touch. Aside from broad rightist principles like lower taxes and a striking national defense, the speech was slight on Palin's own policy ideas that typically specify someone is seriously laying the groundwork to run for the Waxen House.
Source: Washington Post
Glenn Beck 'On the Record' on the Tea Party Revolution
07.02.10
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX Rumour HOST: Fired up! Right now, the very first Public Tea Party Convention is steaming! It is brimming with ardour in Nashville, Tennessee. Organizers say it's crammed, and Saturday night, Governor Sarah Palin will be the keynote tub-thumper. Will this be the first of many national conventions, or is this a one-time administer?
Well, let's see what Glenn Beck thinks. Glenn joins us in St. Louis. Careful to see you, Glenn.
GLENN BECK, Pack, "GLENN BECK": Hi, Greta.
VAN SUSTEREN: So Glenn, what is it? Is this a one-at intervals deal or is this truly the beginning of a crusade, the Tea Party Convention?
BECK: You be versed, I can't tell you about the tea party movement. You recognize, I don't -- I'm not really sure what expressly is going to happen with the tea parties. I have knowledge of that there's a lot of people that would like to co-opt any of these movements. That would formula the end, the doom of any of these movements, you know, if the Republicans make up one's mind, Hey, yes, we're just like you guys, and then it becomes a Republican affair.
Source: FOXNews
Tea party shakes up the Republicans' big tent
07.02.10
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In states across the country, the tea partiers, an amorphous mixture of people mad-as-hell-at-just-about-everything, have launched a jihad to "clarify" the GOP — purge it of moderates they identifier RINOs, Republicans in Name Only.
The phenomenon has surfaced in Republican primaries in states as multiform as California, New York, Texas, Tennessee and Ohio, to name exactly a few. But nowhere has it emerged in as virulent a form as in an unusually chilly and cloudy Sunshine State, where I’ve fini the past week.
The RINO in without a doubt here is Gov. Charlie Crist , who’s seeking the U.S. Senate fountain-head vacated by Republican Mel Martinez and now held fleetingly by a stand-in for Crist.
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Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)