" Using the Tea Party’s database of organizations (online at TeaPartyPatriots.org), the scholars dispute the group’s claim that the growth of their movement is a direct response to increased government debt and higher taxes. Fetner and King told conference attendees that the facts reveal the opposite: lower-taxed counties have a greater propensity to give rise to Tea Party organizations. "

" Well, well, Tea-Party supporters. Looks like you don't actually like the Tea Party anymore.

" At least that's what the Pew Research Center suggested this week, when it found, surprisingly, that poll respondents are souring on both the Tea Party and the Republican Party in congressional districts represented by members of the House Tea Party Caucus. Pay close attention to the findings on the right: "

" West sounded downright moderate as he explained his new reasonableness. “One of the things that I think conservatives have a problem with is what I call incrementalism,” he told the students. “We believe that when we run a marathon and we start at mile zero, we’re automatically supposed to be at 26.2, but I tell you there are miles in between. . . . What are those incremental steps that get us there?” "

Anything can be terrorism. "I mean, those are the same basic thing, as everyone knows" 1:29

Academics studying Tea Party activism make their colleagues look like hacks when they take sides.

Ray Bradbury: tea party primitivist

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