Tea party group lashes out at ‘tax and spend liberal’ John Boehner

Tea party group lashes out at ‘tax and spend liberal’ John Boehner | The Raw Story

Family Feud breaks out between Tea Party and GOP leader, after House Speaker finally lashes out at the Tea Party nuts...

Tea Party Roots in the Dallas of 1963

Tea Party Roots in the Dallas of 1963


If today’s extremist rhetoric sounds familiar, that’s because it is eerily, poignantly similar to the vitriol aimed squarely at John F. Kennedy during his presidency. And just like today, Texans were leading what some of them saw as a moral crusade. To find the very roots of the tea party of 2013, just go back to downtown Dallas in 1963, back to the months and weeks leading to the Kennedy assassination. - See more at: http://portside.org/2013-11-22/tea-party-roots-dallas-1963#sthash.fwItSYKb.dpuf

The tea party’s assault on workers

The tea party’s assault on workers

GOP Senate Candidate Addressed Conference Hosted by Neo-Confederate Group That Promotes Secessionism

GOP Senate Candidate Addressed Conference Hosted by Neo-Confederate Group That Promotes Secessionism | Mother Jones

Mississippi Republican Chris McDaniel, who is challenging Sen. Thad Cochran and backed by the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Club for Growth, took the stage with a historian who says Lincoln was a Marxist.

Inside the Conservative Brain: Why Tea Partiers Are Desperately Afraid

Inside the Conservative Brain: Why Tea Partiers Are Desperately Afraid | Alternet

Who Increased the Debt?

10 Reasons Why the Tea Party is So Unpopular

10 Reasons Why the Tea Party is So Unpopular | Alternet

Government Shutdown Ended, Austerity Drive Lives On

Now that the government shutdown has been avoided, progressives and the democratic left must prepare for an even bigger battle: fighting more austerity budget cuts.  The Republican Party, and much of the Democratic Party establishment, including President Obama, have already signaled they will accept a budget deal, a "Grand Bargain"  that will drastically cut "entitlements" (i.e., Social Security and Medicare).  We must prepare to fight back!

Instead of cutting Social Security, we must expand it, to cover more people. Instead of raising the retirement age to get SS benefits, we should lower it.   There is no Social Security "crisis," the trust fund has nearly $3 Trillion, the problem is Congress has stolen part of the surplus to cover other spending.  What should be cut is military spending.

The long term national debt can be addressed by cutting military spending, corporate welfare programs, and by RAISING taxes on the corporate rich, like the "Robin Hood Tax" on Wall Street transactions, and returning to the pre-Reagan top tax rates.

Austerity  budget cuts have already cost millions of jobs.  The federal government must spend MORE to create jobs,  we need a national policy to guarantee Full Employment (John Conyers has re-introduced the Humphreys-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act  HR 870 to address the jobs crisis)

Government Shutdown Ended, Austerity Drive Lives On

The Government is Open. Now Fight for Just Government Policies

The Coming Debt Ceiling Settlement

It's the Austerity, Stupid: How We Were Sold an Economy-Killing Lie

Deal or No Deal on Shutdown and Debt Ceiling, Biggest Fiscal Policy Crisis Remains

Robin Hood Tax Petition

The Tea Party’s Last Stand

E.J. Dionne, Jr.: The Tea Party’s Last Stand 

Obamacare Is Such a Threat to Libertarian Ideology that Republicans Have Shut Down the Government to Delay It-Thom Hartmann

The Libertarian Billionaire Agenda Propelling the Tea Party Monster that Has Shut Down Congress

How the Right Wing Manipulated the Government into a Shutdown

Outside Groups Drove The Government Shutdown: A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning

The 1 percent played Tea Party for suckers

The 1 percent played Tea Party for suckers - Salon.com

Tea Party Supports Austerity Budget Cuts to Protect Who?

Tea Partiers Explain How to Properly Celebrate the 4th of July

Tea Partiers Explain How to Properly Celebrate the 4th of July | Mother Jones

What We Can Learn From America's First Tea Party About Countering Corporate Power

What We Can Learn From America's First Tea Party About Countering Corporate Power

Before there was Citizens United, a modern Tea Party movement, or national momentum to ban corporate personhood, Thom Hartmann shows that resistance to corporate power is just as patriotic as Boston’s original Tea Party.

So Much for the IRS Tea Party "Scandal"

Even Republicans Admit It: Politics Did Not Drive the IRS Tea Party "Scandal" | Mother Jones

Another Nail in the Tea Party "IRS Scandal"

Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaires

Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaires

The I.R.S Was Right

The I.R.S Was Right, Obama Caves Again

Marsha Blackburn: Women 'Don't Want' Equal Pay Laws

Marsha Blackburn: Women 'Don't Want' Equal Pay Laws

Tea Party America: Corporations Win While Workers Pay the Price

Tea Party America: Corporations Win While Workers Pay the Price (Video) - Americans Against the Tea Party

How Corporations Created the Tea Party Zombies...

It’s Time for a Worker’s Movement in USA

It’s Time for a Worker’s Movement in USA | The Progressive Press

Retail and Fast Food Workers Strike In Chicago

How Unions are Getting their Groove Back

Tea Party Nation's Toxic Response to The Boston Marathon Bombing

Tea Party Nation's Toxic Response to The Boston Marathon Bombing

Over Two Million Americans Tell Obama: No Cuts to Social Security and Medicare Benefits

Over Two Million Americans Tell Obama: No Cuts to Social Security and Medicare Benefits 

Obama’s Social Security Cuts are Our Wake-Up Call

Obama’s Social Security Cuts are Our Wake-Up Call | NationofChange

The amazing disappearing tea party

Rachel Maddow: The amazing disappearing tea party

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House Republicans, Senate Democrats Offer Competing Visions For The Federal Budget

INFOGRAPHIC: House Republicans, Senate Democrats Offer Competing Visions For The Federal Budget:

The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot

The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot | Common Dreams

In Historic Inauguration Address, Obama Takes the Fight to the Right

In Historic Inauguration Address, Obama Takes the Fight to the Right | Alternet

Raving Violent Lunatic Threatens to ‘Start Killing People’ if Obama Tries to Take His Guns

Raving Violent Lunatic Threatens to ‘Start Killing People’ if Obama Tries to Take His Guns (video) | Americans Against the Tea Party

Another Tennessee Teabilly goes nuts...  (thankfully, he loses his gun permit!)

Powerful Tea Party Group's Internal Docs Leak

Powerful Tea Party Group's Internal Docs Leak—Read Them Here | Mother Jones

Dick Armey Quits Tea Party Group in Split Over Direction

Fiscal Cliff Deal Passed By Congress After Republicans Cave

The House passed the Senate "fiscal cliff" deal, not sure to cheer or not.  The tax cuts for incomes below $400,000, not $250,000 are all made permanent, which means less tax revenue.  The temporary payroll tax cut is gone, so all working class taxes go up some (some prog. opposed it to begin with because it came out of Social Security), on the other hand, unemployment benefits are extended and the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credits are extended, a victory for progressives.  And the GOP were not able to add any cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits, they are saving that fight for the Debt Ceiling cliff, so hand on for the next ride... it ain't gonna be pretty.  Now the Republican, and some corporate Democrats, will be pushing AUSTERITY (cuts to social programs)

Fiscal Cliff Deal Passed by Congress After Republicans Cave

Forget the "Fiscal Cliff"

Reich: Lousy Deal on the Edge of the Cliff

On the Left, Seeing Obama Giving Away Too Much, Again

Everything You Need to Know About the Emerging "Fiscal Cliff" Tax Compromise

Krugman:  Uninformed Politicians Pushing Us Toward Austerity

Fiscal Cliff Deal Passed By Congress After Republicans Cave