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- Bachmann hands out ‘Bachmann 12′ shirts at CPAC
- Tea Party Patriots Team Up With Steve King On Last Ditch Effort To Destroy ‘ObamaCare’
- CPAC victory in hand, Ron Paul takes on Tea Party
| Bachmann hands out ‘Bachmann 12′ shirts at CPAC Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:20 PM PST
Further fueling the speculation that Rep. Michele Bachmann may be making a bid for the White House in 2012, she handed out jerseys with "Bachmann" on the front and "12″ on the back at a reception Thursday evening. As promised, Bachmann also gave away vouchers for free drinks as she collected information from attendees at CPAC, an annual gathering of conservatives which has drawn over 11,000 attendees this week. While Bachmann's spokesman Sergio Gor said the "12″ was a reference to the 12 Apostles and meant to convey "Obama out in 2012," the information gathering that Bachmann conducted in order for attendees to receive their shirts and free drinks suggests the number could also mean a run for president — or, at the very least, perhaps it was part of her campaign to win the CPAC presidential straw poll. To read more, visit: http://minnesotaindependent.com/77519/bachmann-hands-out-bachmann-12-shirts-at-cpac |
| Tea Party Patriots Team Up With Steve King On Last Ditch Effort To Destroy ‘ObamaCare’ Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:14 PM PST
The Tea Party Patriots are backing up Iowa Republican Steve King in a last-ditch effort to sink “ObamaCare” before the end of winter. But they’re running out of options. King wants his party to be bold, and attach a measure hacking $100 billion out of the health care law to legislation that will fund the government from March 4 through the end of September. He knows the Democratic Senate and the White House won’t let that fly — but for him larger principles are at stake here, and if the government shuts down because of this fight, so be it. Republican leaders aren’t wild about this idea, or they would’ve written King’s plan into the base spending package. So King’s trying to do an end-run around them. Monday evening, the House Rules Committee will decide whether to grant King’s plan protected status, so he can offer it on the House floor and pass it with a majority vote. It needs that protected status because it’s not really relevant to the appropriations legislation at hand — and if Rules Committee Republicans decide not to give it that waiver, it will need supermajority support, which it doesn’t have. To read more, visit: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/tea-party-patriots-team-up-with-steve-king-on-last-ditch-effort-to-destroy-obamacare.php |
| CPAC victory in hand, Ron Paul takes on Tea Party Posted: 14 Feb 2011 01:00 PM PST
Libertarian Ron Paul, a godfather of the Tea Party movement, isn't altogether happy with his political progeny these days. Fresh from victory in last week's CPAC presidential straw poll, the Republican congressman from Texas laments to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that some Tea Partiers aren't measuring up when it comes to the tough defense and entitlement program cuts he believes are needed to save the United States from economic cataclysm. "They don't want you to touch Social Security. They don't want you to touch anything but Obamacare," Paul says. "Some of them are real Republicans and they wouldn't dare touch Bush's increase in medical care costs, you know, prescription health programs." "They treat the symptoms and they don't look at it philosophically," he adds. This sounds like a new fissure in the divisions emerging among Republicans. The Tea Party movement swept Republicans into the majority in the House of Representatives last November, while narrowing the Democratic Party's hold on the Senate. To read more, visit: http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2011/02/14/cpac-victory-in-hand-ron-paul-takes-on-tea-party/ |
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