Articles tagged with: Tea Party
GOP Extremists Oust Lugar in Indiana
Last Tuesday’s Republican primary in the State of Indiana represented a sad day for America, and yet another step forward for the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement. Richard Lugar, a thirty-six year veteran of Congress, known as being one of the last remaining moderate Republicans in the Senate, was soundly defeated by Tea-Party backed candidate Richard Mourdock. Ironically, the political virtues …
Walker Recall Will Give Tea Party a Black Eye
In a few more weeks the people of the State of Wisconsin will be voting to decide whether or not to throw conservative Governor Scott Walker out of office. The recall vote will be a major test of Walker and the the ultra-conservative “Tea Party‘s” ability to strip public worker unions of their collective bargaining rights, and to balance their …
Tea Party Bravado Results in Mitt Romney
Many Americans who have watched the drama of the Republican presidential primaries unfold have been astounded by the total lack of enthusiasm among the electorate. Simply stated, the prospect of Mitt Romney becoming the inevitable nominee has left the majority of Republicans disgusted and disenfranchised. Many of the GOP faithful feel that Romney has been foisted on them by the …
GOP Leadership Seething over Good Economic Data
It’s beginning to look like the year 2012 is going to be a solid year for economic recovery in the United States. Today, the much-awaited “retail sales” numbers were released by the Commerce Department, which showed a decent gain over the prior period. This follows other good news concerning housing starts, manufacturing activity, consumer confidence and employment. When combined with …
The Republican Party : A House Divided
For the first time since the Republican Party’s national convention in 1952, there is a good chance that no presidential candidate will have the required 1,144 votes needed to sew up the nomination at the time the convention begins. The possibility of a “brokered convention“, like the ones held a hundred years ago with party bosses in smoke-filled rooms, has …
Tea Party Will Crash and Burn With Santorum
During this particular time in the primary “election cycle”, the Republican and Democratic Party front-runners usually step forward to stake a claim to their party’s presidential nomination. This time around, however, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are both claiming to be the Republican candidate best suited to take on Barack Obama in the November election. The battle for supremacy between …
Tea Party Will Anoint Santorum as Standard Bearer
The upcoming Republican caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, along with the non-binding primary in Missouri should determine once and for all who will be anointed as the front-running, “non-Romney” candidate in the GOP. This is not a small issue among the ultra-conservative “Tea Party” wing, who view Romney as a betrayer of core Republican values, and an opportunist that is …
Happy New Year from AskCherlock!
It has been a rocky year politically, economically, and socially in many ways this past year. And it has been a fun year, now ending with Newt Gingrich in tears and a who-would-have-thought Iowa surge for Rick Santorum. Occupy rose to counter the Tea Party and we even attended an Occupy event. Activists to the end, we are! Global changes …
Sen. Toomey Fails the Super Committee & Fails Pa.
Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, after less than one year in office, has managed to bring disgrace upon himself and his State by refusing to act in a bipartisan manner while serving on the so-called “Super Committee”. The fact that the ultra-conservative Toomey got elected to the Senate in Pennsylvania in 2010, a state that voted for Barack Obama …
Bachmann Claims No Respect From Media!
The presidential campaign of Michelle Bachmann, the one-time favorite of the Republican Tea Party faction, seems to be unraveling at a rapid pace. Meanwhile, the Bachmann campaign is moaning and complaining that their candidate is being disrespected by the media, and being unfairly dismissed as “irrelevant.” The truth of the matter is that Bachmann is, in fact, being disrespected by …
