Tag: tea partiers
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Loser Tea Party congressman refuses to apologize for being a douchebag
So Paul Broun is not the most contemptible man in Congress. Meet Joe Walsh.
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Memo to Joe the Asshole: The media is not your P.R. arm
“Mr. Burns, your campaign has the momentum of a runaway train. Why are you so popular?” It appears tea partiers take their cues from the Springfield despot when it comes to dealing with the media. Joe the Plumber, who on Tuesday secured the GOP nomination for Congress in Ohio, threw a hissy fit after a…
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If you’re not embarrassed by Rick Santorum you’re an embarrassment
Father Santorum plays to the crowd. Rick Santorum took a swipe at the president’s higher education push on Saturday. “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college,” Santorum said. “What a snob.” The GOP candidate was speaking to a crowd of Tea Party activists in Troy, Michigan.
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Meh-lanta
A sobering thought for anyone who cares about Atlanta: An expert in land use and urban development, Leinberger outlined how metro Atlanta has fallen out of favor nationally as a business hub and is now competing with cities like Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Dallas, cities once overshadowed by Atlanta. My hometown, competing with Orlando…
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Judge Tea Party by the candidates they support
At various points the Tea Party has vaulted Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain into front-runner status. Not a very good batting average. There’s a price to be paid when you confuse talk show hosts with leaders. Each of the aforementioned candidates was “legitimized” by talk radio and each, to varying degrees,…
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