Tag: Ted Cruz

With the fiscal cliff deal signed into law, the nation’s attention now turns to the debt ceiling debate, scheduled to hit in the next two months. As America reaches the debt ceiling yet again – an unbelievable $16.4 trillion debt

Tea Party favorite and newly-elected Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took his oath of office today – and immediately moved to take on President Obama’s chief legislative accomplishment, Obamacare. Cruz is the first Hispanic to serve as a Texas Senator. His

The National Republican Senatorial Committee had a rotten track record in 2012. But now they’re looking to get more deeply involved in picking candidates at the state level, hoping to foreclose Tea Party primary challengers like Richard Mourdock (R-IN). “There’s

Ted Cruz, the Senator-elect for Texas, is disgusted with the fact that Mitt Romney eschewed taking a strong conservative stance against Barack Obama instead opting for making nice with Obama. Conservatives never really made an argument. Cruz stated unequivocally, “We

Beginning today and extending through November 17, the Federalist Society will be holding its annual National Lawyers Convention. The Federalist Society is most famous as the largest constitutionalist legal organization in the United States; it was the breeding ground for

As the fog of the election clears, those who truly wish to restore the nation to its constitutional foundations seem to be falling into two camps. One camp asserts that, as a result of the re-election of Barack Obama, conservatives

The conservative movement took it pretty good on the chin earlier this week. President Obama and his liberal allies mobilized their vote and got it out very effectively in the key states. On Tuesday night, as I went to bed,

Ted Cruz, the Tea Party Republican from Texas of Hispanic descent, won his Senate bid on Tuesday, providing what may prove to be the most significant win for conservatives and Republicans when it comes to the future of the movement

In an election cycle in which progressive media tried to demonize the Tea Party and paint Republicans as hostile toward woman, Nebraska Senator-elect Deb Fischer will be important in Washington as a reform-minded Tea Party senator who also happens to

(AP) WASHINGTONTea-Party-backed Republican Ted Cruz has won the Texas Senate seat, making him the third Hispanic member of the Senate. Three more Democrats have won re-election: Sens. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.

In a memo sent before Election Day, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wrote that the Tea Party movement has effectively ended.  According to the DCCC, 2012 will be the “undoing of the 2010 Tea Party tsunami that crashed upon Washington.”

Beltway media shoe-gazer EJ Dionne is pushing an incoherent (and unintentionally humorous) theory that the Tea Party movement has joined Osama bin Laden as a casualty under the Obama administration. Mr. Dionne is apparently an authority on the Tea Party.

The Financial Times reports that online behemoth Google has offered a pre-emptive deal to settle anticipated European Union claims of unlawful behavior damaging to competition in the online search and services market: “Google has made a bid to avoid an antitrust war with

Tuesday’s theme at the Republican National Convention was “We Built It,” but the night’s speakers did not reference or mention the Tea Party movement that built the current Republican majority in the House during the 2010 midterm elections and infused

Mike Huckabee held a conference call yesterday in deference of embattled GOP senate candidate Todd Akin wherein he invoked the Biblical story of Mount Carmel to describe toe divided party and grassroots:  “This could be a Mount Carmel moment,” said the former Arkansas

The Tea Party movement is looking as vibrant and influential as ever with the recent naming of Paul Ryan to the GOP presidential ticket, and the Tea Party inspired Ted Cruz victory in Texas. So how exactly did the movement

On FOX News’ “On The Record,” Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus announced five new speakers to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.  Headlining the additions are two Tea Party stalwarts — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Texas Republican

When Sarah Palin campaigned in Texas the Friday before Ted Cruz’s victory last Tuesday, her appearance swung the polls by 17 points in one night. Professionals said they had never seen anyone — a politician, celebrity, or athlete — have