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Shadowy Des Moines Group Comes Out Against Boswell After Getting Checks from Republicans

Posted on August 1 2010 by Congressional Aid

The Des Moines Tea Party is neither registered federally with the FEC or IRS as a political organization, nor at the state level with the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board. This makes the finances of the Des Moines Tea Party somewhat shadowy. Nevertheless, it has come out swinging in the Iowa 3rd District congressional [...]

3 Tea Party Challengers And The GOP

Posted on July 30 2010 by Congress Watcher

If this year’s contest in Doc Hastings’s district is any indication, the Tea Party is more of an aspect of the Republican Party than an independent movement working to check the power of the GOP.

Tea Party Caucus Includes No African-Americans

Posted on July 22 2010 by Congress Watcher

The new Tea Party Caucus contains no African-Americans, even though there are many African-Americans in the House of Representatives.

Should Congress Let Corporate Abuses Slide By?

Posted on May 23 2010 by Congress Watcher

Accidents happen? Is that what Rand Paul would say face-to-face to the families of the eleven oil rig workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion?

Texas 2nd District Lacks A Clean Water Option

Posted on May 10 2010 by Congress Watcher

If residents of the 2nd district are looking for a representative who will be more active and responsive to offshore drilling problems, it seems that they’re going to have to wait for another couple of years

Please Don’t Tell Me I’m a Republican Tool

Posted on April 20 2010 by Congressional Aid

“Please don’t tell me I’m a Republican tool.” So said Tea Party Express head Mark Williams last week as he announced his organization’s list of “Tea Party Heroes” and “Tea Party Targets” for the congressional races of 2010. Every single one of the 11 Tea Party Express targets for 2010 is a congressional Democrat. Not [...]

Tea Party Candidate Suggests Hutarees Were Set Up

Posted on April 1 2010 by Congress Watcher

Scott Aughney’s rush to defend the Hutaree without expressing any concern at all about the dangers of violent paramilitary groups organizing within the United States, illustrates the strength of the ideological association between the Tea Party and the Hutaree.

Barney Frank A Communist?

Posted on March 21 2010 by Congress Watcher

For Tea Party protesters to call Barney Frank a Communist suggests that they simply use the term “Communist” to attack anybody or anything they don’t like.

Kesha Rogers Fights Obama’s British Empire

Posted on March 4 2010 by Congress Watcher

With a campaign slogan of “Send Kesha to Congress, and your grandchildren to Mars.”, Kesha Rogers won the 22nd district Democratic congressional primary in Texas, with a platform of opposing the White House’s “British imperial controllers”.

Sen. Bennett Declines Home-State Invitations, Heads to Party With Gambling Lobbyists

Posted on February 27 2010 by Congressional Aid

Utah Senator Bob Bennett has been busy declining some invitations and accepting others. Bennett failed to attend a candidate forum in his home state of Utah on February 13, 2010. On January 15 of this year, Bob Bennett declined an invitation from Tea Party activists to attend an Independence Caucus in Provo. Bennett said he [...]

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