Tea Party activists and the much younger Occupy Wall Street protesters are in furious agreement that they are not alike. But neither generation has exclusive ownership of the frustration sweeping the US.
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Public servants: invisible heroes or easy targets?
Since 1990, the Australian Public Service has become more top-heavy, with a growing and male-dominated senior executive service and a corresponding reduction in the lower employment bands, writes Dr James Whelan, the public service program research director at the Centre for Policy Development
Did the Tea Party win the debt debacle?
The New York Times gets together a panel of experts — including Glenn Greenwald, Lara M. Brown and Dan Schnur — to discuss whether the controversial Tea Party movement emerged as winners from the debt-ceiling deal.
The death of Glenn Beck
After his successful Restoring Honor rally last year, US shock jock — and Tea Party supporter — Glenn Beck has seen plunging ratings and his show dropped in numerous cities. What happened? Was he too extreme for the conservatives?
Arizona shooting Arizona shooting puts political rhetoric in the crosshairs
Crikey media wrap: Is the accused Arizona shooter simply a crazed individual or was his violent act a product of increasingly violent political rhetoric in the US?
US midterm elections Tea Party has 40 year plan, but will they last that long?
The Tea Party movement was jubilant over its impact on the US mid-term elections, with some 40 candidates on their way to Washington. Harley Dennett joined the Tea Party Patriots in DC and found the movement has long-term thinking but splintered support.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s mid-terms: tea with Christine O’Donnell in Dover, Delaware
The music cranks up, as the crowd swells towards low triple figures, “don’t stop believin”, “walking on sunshine”, ancient pop-rock that’s become the house music for these events.
Crippling Obama: no we can’t
Expect the upcoming US midterms to be brutal for the Democrats, with the Republicans likely to get significant increased power. But will Obama — thanks to a fracturing of the Republicans with the Tea Party — still control the foreign policy debate? Unlikely, says Matthew Hill.
Albrechtsen: Bring the Tea to Australia
The rise of the Tea Party movement in America has propelled people off the couch, inspiring political activism from those who historically couldn’t give a damn. If only it could move across the Pacific Ocean, longs Janet Albrechtsen.
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Tea party art: not just finger painting
A Tea Party rally brings out a plethora of posters and t-shirts based on manipulating Barack Obama’s face, favouring a communist China artistic style or just a direct rip-off of Shepherd Fairey’s iconic poster.
VIDEO: Rally to restore sanity
With all the Tea Party madness — including Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ rally — recently in the States, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is fighting back with his own rally: the Rally to Restore Sanity.
Why women rule the right
The rise of Sarah Palin’s mama grizzlies in the conservative corner of US politics isn’t a new phenomena. Since the 1950s, the grassroots right-wing movement has been run by women, ironically spruiking values different from what they’re living.
Crikey Wrap: The Tea Party takeover
In just a few short years the super conservative and sometimes a little kooky Tea Party movement has come to dominate the political landscape in the US. And now it’s gunning for control of the Republican Party, following massive wins for Tea Party supported nominees at yesterday’s US Primaries.
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Who supports the Tea Party?
In a fascinating infographic it seems the biggest supporters of the far right-wing Tea Party movement are over 65 years old, white and wealthy. Oh, and they hate the Democrats.
great read Hitchens: Hanging at Glenn Beck’s white pity Tea Party
Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ — a pro-conservative America rally starring Sarah Palin, held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — reflected the new anxious air pervading white America, writes Christopher Hitchens.
The Gulf spill is drowning the Tea Party
It’s not just Barack Obama suffering politically from the Gulf spill (although he is looking terrible). Has the ship sailed for the Tea Party with this latest environmental disaster?
Bartlett: Are the Libs turning into the Tea Party?
The Coalition has turned into a force that disagrees with everything for the sake of it, no matter how mundane, and it’s destroying the government’s ability to form public policy, writes Andrew Bartlett.
Meet Rand Paul: the new Sarah Palin
Republican Senate candidate and Tea Party pin-up boy Rand Paul is being called the “new Sarah Palin”: a popular political novice making big headlines — for all the right and wrong reasons.
The Tea Party claims its first big scalp
Florida’s governor Charlie Crist has surrendered his attempt to win the Republican nomination for the US Senate to run as an independent, following backlash from tea partiers and the party’s hard-right conservatives, reports Charles Richardson.
Sarah Palin Inc.
Sarah Palin is the “president of right-wing America” — a job that has netted her $12 million already. New York magazine goes behind the building of the Sarah Palin brand-name: an empire driven far more by money than political ideology.
The Tea Party gets a TV network
The US’s right-wing Tea Party movement is starting a TV network called RIGHTNETWORK, for “Americans who are looking for content that reflects and reinforces their perspective and worldview.” Fox is suddenly looking decidedly “fair and balanced”.
The Tea Partiers in their own (crazy) words
NY Times cleverly asked members of the Tea Party to video themselves discussing the problems of the US, proving conclusively that Tea Partiers are predominately white, old and angry with everyone.
