The Plum Line Archive: Tea Party
Latest B.S. controversy: Obama said Tea Partyers driven by race!!!
One of my favorite right wing fantasies has it that Democrats are broadly convinced that the vast majority of Tea Partyers are closet or overt racists. You hear this so often that it often seems as if some folks wish...
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Greg Sargent
| March 3, 2011; 1:08 PM ET |
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Happy Hour Roundup
* Joe Klein calls on his media colleagues to demand all the 2012 GOP hopefuls take a position on Obama's heritage, and to mercilessly hound them out of town if they equivocate. * Mike Huckabee is now claiming that Obama...
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Greg Sargent
| March 2, 2011; 6:24 PM ET |
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Happy Hour Roundup, House GOPers, Labor, Senate Dems, Tea Party, budget
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The Morning Plum
* Lefty groups enter the ad wars in Wisconsin: Progressive groups are going up in Wisconsin today with an interesting new ad that lets ordinary Wisconsinites make their case against Governor Scott Walker, an effort to harness the grassroots nature...
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Greg Sargent
| March 2, 2011; 8:35 AM ET |
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The Morning Plum
* Wisconsin poll finds strong support for public employees: With the standoff in Wisconsin intensifying, the well-respected Dem firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner has released a new polling memo -- bankrolled by unions -- finding strong opposition to Governor Scott Walker's...
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Greg Sargent
| February 22, 2011; 8:41 AM ET |
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The Morning Plum
* Wisconsin Dems hanging tough: The leader of Wisconsin Senate Dems tells the Milwakee Journal Sentinal that Dems won't buckle and have no intention of returning until the GOP takes the assault on public employee bargaining rights off the table:...
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Greg Sargent
| February 18, 2011; 8:31 AM ET |
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The Morning Plum
* Obama voices strong support for Wisconsin public employees: With the standoff continuing to rage over Governor Scott Walker's push to strip public employees of bargaining rights, Obama has now waded into the debate, denouncing Walker's proposal as an "assault...
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Greg Sargent
| February 17, 2011; 8:41 AM ET |
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Foreign policy and national security, House GOPers, Labor, Morning Plum, Senate Dems, Senate Republicans, Social Security, Tea Party, deficit
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