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Remember, Remember The Fifth Of November -- A Day With The Tea Partiers
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 30 days ago
Remember, Remember The Fifth Of November -- A Day With The Tea Partiers
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The first thing you need to know about the Tea Partiers: they take their traffic laws very seriously. In a city known for its jaywalking, roll-through red lights and the white-knuckled anarchy of the traffic circle, the thousands of flag-carrying jeans-clad protesters who descended on Capitol ...
Tea partiers hit Capitol
politico.com - 30 days ago
Tea partiers hit Capitol
— politico.com — Capitol Police arrest nine protesters Thursday morning in the Hart Senate office building.... (more) Tea partiers hit Capitol

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Strange Scene: 10 Arrested As Tea Partiers Heckle Police
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 30 days ago
Strange Scene: 10 Arrested As Tea Partiers Heckle Police
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — U.S. Capitol Police arrested 10 people this afternoon Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, public information office for the Capitol... Police, told TPMDC they happened in the Cannon House building as tea partiers attempted to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi about ... (more) Strange Scene: 10 Arrested As Tea Partiers Heckle Police

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The $900 billion mistake
voices.washingtonpost.com - 24 days ago
The $900 billion mistake
— voices.washingtonpost.com — Barack Obama has not given much in the way of specifics for health-care reform. Few policies have... been nonnegotiable and virtually none have been dictated. The exception is a number that was neither nonnegotiable nor dictated, but was received ... (more) The $900 billion mistake

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Talking Points Memo:  The Tea Party Big Picture

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The Tea Party Big Picture
Talking Points Memo — TPMDC's Evan McMorris-Santoro spent the day among the Tea Party crowd at the Capitol. And Christina Bellantoni filed this report on what the Tea Partiers are saying about 2010 based on interviews she conducted with the protestors. Both are great reads. And I'd suggest reading both of them. In many ways, though, what struck me most about today was what happened at the podium. This event began as a Tea Party event organized and galvanized by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the over-the-top, far-right congresswoman from Minnesota. As recently as Monday, ...

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