Tag: tea party

It's angry Tea Party town hall month in America and, in Arizona yesterday, Senator John McCain got a taste of the kind of crazy that colored Colorado's gubernatorial race last year. The longtime public servant and one-time GOP presidential nominee was called out of touch by town hall Tea Partiers who were shocked McCain didn't know about "Agenda 21," an alleged United Nations plan that would see a world government take over the United States by wresting control of its farms.

Today brings deficit-deal hangover poll data. Public Policy Polling surveyed voters this past weekend in Colorado and North Carolina and found that they overwhelmingly think the tragic bargain was a bad move for the country's struggling economy and will fail to successfully address the deficit. PPP reports a glimmer of good news for President Obama amid the wreckage. Polsters found that more of those few people who support the deal give credit to Obama and more of the many detractors blame Republican members of Congress.

Next Media Animation has given the debt ceiling debate in Washington its signature treatment. The choppy digital short has Uncle Sam shopping and handing over his credit card to a giant Chinese panda register clerk wearing a People's Republic happy proletariat cap. Turns out Next Media writers don't know that the ironic U.S. "liberal" media only covers topics excessively that it does not take seriously. That's why the debt ceiling posturing is this year's biggest political story and that's why the Tea Party was last year's biggest story. So Next Media can't be blamed for inserting this in the video voice-over: "Most Americans agree with Republicans that the debt ceiling should not be raised." Holy biased animated media! Where's the polling on that assertion, Hong Kong?

Prominent Christian pastors in the United States who have dedicated themselves to serving the poor and most vulnerable citizens don't believe in trickle-down economics and they don't believe the problem of poverty should be left for churches to address. More than 4,000 of those pastors signed an open letter to that effect addressed to President Obama and the members of Congress, urging them as they hammer out a federal budget not to make poor and hungry Americans bear the burden of reducing the nation’s deficit. More than 95 pastors and clergy members in Colorado signed the letter, which appeared in Politico Wednesday.

Sarah Palin's movie is airing in select Tea Party friendly locations around the country this week-- eight locations so far, including Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where it's showing Friday evening. Palin asked conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon to make the film, apparently as message vehicle for a 2012 presidential run. The title is "Undefeated," which will leave some critics scratching their heads. Palin's most high-profile political campaign-- her 2008 vice presidential bid-- ended in resounding defeat.

"The justice of man is rot," which is why the Tea Party has swerved clear of traditional left-wing Hollywood and made its own contribution to the pop-culture U.S. history canon. Courage, New Hampshire, is a one-hour drama made by Tea Partiers for Tea Partiers that shines out with Christian faith and American exceptionalism and the unfettered right to bear muskets. After debuting Sunday in Monrovia, California, it heads straight to DVD.

The Institute for Research and Education and Human Rights has a report on the Tea Party group FreedomWorks, led by Dick Armey, and their increasing association with the John Birch Society.

Mitt Romney is announcing his long-coming official 2012 presidential bid on a New Hampshire farm today. A metaphor for the Romney candidacy, the announcement will look good-- all rolling hills, blue skies, tractors and hay bales, according to the New York Times-- but it will be undercut by the fact that the family farm is propped up by major federal subsidies, thinning Romney's small-government message for those in the know.

Third District Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton unseated Democrat John Salazar in last year's Tea Party-fueled Republican wave election, where voters sought to shake up business-as-usual in Washington. The brother of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, John Salazar is a long-time government employee who served in the state House before heading to Washington for three terms. He was a ripe target in 2010. Tipton was no political innocent, however, and now just months into his term he has admitted to the House Ethics Committee that his daughter has been using his office to promote the tele-townhall company where she’s employed.

Because you just can't make this stuff up: Tea Party darling and will-she-or-won't-she presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is pals with anti-gay crusader and hair-metal-music DJ talk show host Bradlee Dean.