The U.S. Senate’s most outspoken contrarian, Ted Cruz, became the first official 2016 candidate to launch a bid for the White House Monday. Despite the fact that he’s highly controversial within his own party, it has long been known that
Grassroots conservatives across Texas are cheering the news that Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will announce that he is running for President in 2016 on Monday. The news was especially welcomed by many activists who have supported Cruz for years, long before he became a household name.
Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) alleged that the Tea Party wants to bring back segregation and make women “secondary citizens” at an event that on Saturday. Cleaver recounted that during the Obamacare debated “we had Tea Party people all over everywhere,
Thursday marked the sixth anniversary of CNBC editor Rick Santelli’s famous “rant heard ’round the world” from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. It was the moment that launched a nascent movement, rousing conservatives to stand up to the radical presidency of Barack Obama. As I note in my recent book Wacko Birds: The Fall (and Rise) of the Tea Party, the Tea Party succeeded in stopping much of Obama’s agenda. It has since helped the GOP retake both Houses of Congress.
CNBC Contributor Rick Santelli recalled his famous rant that helped spark the Tea Party movement on its six-year anniversary on Thursday’s “Squawk Alley.” Six years ago, he railed against bailouts and said “we’re thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in
While NBC’s Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special featured cast members and guests from all eras of the show’s four-decade run, one SNL alum was notably absent from all the laughter — Christian conservative and Obama opponent Victoria Jackson.
The Obama administration, which lauds itself as “the most transparent administration in the modern era,” has refused to release over 500 IRS Tea Party targeting documents.
The “Reformocon” movement won’t gain ground unless it realizes that the market is the best way to help people. The poor don’t need handouts from a more efficient version of the Mommy State to “reap the benefits of competition” – the incredibly low cost and high quality of the goods and services they enjoy, from inexpensive and abundant food to the low-cost shopping experience of Wal-Mart, have done more to improve their lives than easily-abused Big Government welfare programs.
On Thursday, Glenn Beck said the Tea Party movement must adopt left-wing tactics and change its name. “We’ve got to find new language,” Beck reportedly said, according to The Blaze. “[On the left], they’re shape-shifters. You have to constantly shift
The 2015 South Carolina Tea Party Convention was a phenomenal success on many fronts and caught the mainstream media totally off balance. It was too big to ignore, too American to trash, too positive to criticize, and too candid to berate.
Pro-amnesty Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), in delivering the Republican’s Spanish-language response to the State of the Union (SOTU) address, called on Obama to cooperate with the GOP in crafting “permanent solutions to our immigration system.” Freshman Rep. Curbelo did not challenge the president on illegal immigration or executive amnesty.
A writer at Politico, the newspaper of record for Beltway insiders, takes note of Ted Cruz’s warm welcome from conservatives in South Carolina.
During this past weekend’s Tea Party Coalition Convention in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) doubled down his assertion that a moderate 2016 Republican presidential nominee would lose against the Democrat presidential nominee.
South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention in Myrtle Beach welcomed one the rocks of modern day conservatism, Texas congressman Louie Gohmert, who took time on Sunday to talk with Breitbart News senior political writer Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot radio channel 125.
Col. Rob Maness believes that the recent terror attacks in Paris should be the “centerpiece” of every argument against illegal immigration and open borders. “Our porous border for years enabled terrorists and enemies of our country to be able to
Black author, radio personality and the purveyor of conservative website TheBlackSphere Kevin Jackson told Breitbart News political analyst Matt Boyle that liberals have “succumb to the idea of color.”
Breibart News Sunday will be broadcasting from the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina from 7PM to 10PM EST. South Carolina is a crucial battleground for Republican candidates leading up to the 2016 Republican nomination for president.
Talk radio host Laura Ingraham argued that the Republican establishment is now “firmly entrenched” and that the GOP winning control of Congress may be “one of the worst developments for conservatism in a long time” on Friday. “That [the Cromnibus]
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Laura Ingraham’s radio show, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) revealed that there is an internal unhappiness with the Tea Party for pushing members to vote against House Speaker John Boehner for a third term. According to Huelskamp,
As lawmakers prepare to select new leadership on Tuesday, conservative movement powerhouse Citizens United is urging Republicans to replace Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker of the House.
South Carolina Tea Party convention leader Joe Dugan, the head of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party, is putting his state’s GOP House members on notice: he wants them to vote against John Boehner for Speaker on Tuesday.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed that all Republican Senate incumbents will win their primaries in 2016. McConnell told the Washington Post that he has told incumbents, “Don’t try to reinvent yourself. Be yourself, number one. And don’t be
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be with in studio co-host Matt Boyle to talk about the most important news of the week including the conservative attempt to unseat John Boehner as Speaker of the House, the Establishment’s backing of Jeb Bush’s presidential run, and much more.
Thanks to an assortment of delay tactics, including a colorful episode where former Tax Exempt Organizations head Lois Lerner was depicted as a one-woman electromagnetic pulse bomb who caused every hard drive she walked past to detonate like a firecracker,
Columnist David Brooks argued that Jeb Bush is “the favorite” in the 2016 presidential race and that “the party is coming back…to about where Jeb Bush is” on Friday’s “PBS Newshour.” Brooks said of Bush “I think he’s the favorite,
