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Tea Party Caucus

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    July 8, 2011

    Michele Bachmann pledges to ban "all forms of pornography" if elected president

    ​Michele Bachmann just became the first GOP presidential candidate to pledge to ban "all forms of pornography" if elected president in 2012.Bachmann signed the promise yesterday in order to secure the endorsement of Bob Vander Plaats, an influential Iowa activist who is the CEO of The Family Lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Michele Bachmann to speak at National Press Club on July 28

    ​Michele Bachmann will speak at the National Press Club on July 28, according to an announcement today.This isn't the first time Bachmann has regaled national scribes--we've got the highlights of her previous appearances below--but it is the first time since her sudden vault to national prominence ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Bachmann warns Obama to fear the Tea Party, who are not all toothless hillbillies

    Michele, prepared to lead her red, white and blue hillbillies into battle.​Michele Bachmann has issued a warning to Barack Obama and the Democrats that they should "be afraid of the Tea Party."Bachmann, the self-anointed queen of the Tea Party, said the Democrats have the wrong idea about the grou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Where Michele Bachmann gets her money

    Following the money.​Michele Bachmann may represent Minnesota's 6th congressional district on paper, but she's really America's Congresswoman, playing on a much bigger stage than the northern suburbs and exurbs of the Twin Cities. (Did you catch that star turn at Lincoln Center?) Just take a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Tea Party Caucus membership declines under Queen Bachmann

    Bachmann leads a shrinking Tea Party Caucus.​So much for a movement sweeping through the halls of Congress: Since Michele Bachmann founded the House Tea Party Caucus last summer and declared herself Receptacle in Chief, it has actually lost members. The Hill reports that the caucus now has 50 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Michele Bachmann betrayed tea party with PATRIOT Act vote

    Did Bachmann vote against liberty?​Right before she showed up at CPAC and a drubbing in its presidential straw poll, Rep. Michele Bachmann voted for a a temporary extension of the PATRIOT, and proudly announced the vote on her Facebook page: "As a mother of five and a foster mother to 23 children ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Michele Bachmann concentrates on district work ... in Hawaii

    Apparently speaking in Hawaii is part of Bachmann's "district work"​Michele Bachmann has apparently been inundated this week with calls from reporters wanting her take on the freedom-loving protesters in Cairo. But our most famous congresswoman just isn't picking up the line. She's busy with " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    CNN justifies airing Bachmann's SOTU speech [UPDATE]

    Michele Bachmann: Equal time?​The tempest in a tea pot is now the perfect storm. Michele Bachmann's little State of the Union speech scheduled for an online-only audience tonight is now being put on a par with Barack Obama's address to Congress, and the official Republican response from Rep. Pau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Al Franken will mentor Rand Paul

    Al Franken will be Rand Paul's Democratic mentor.​Right-wingers concerned about their favored politicians drinking the Capitol Hill Kool-Aid instead of the tea must be gagging over this news: Freshman GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky wants our very own liberal firebrand Al Franken to be his Democrat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    10 most popular Blotter stories of 2010

    Paragon/TeabonicsKeeping us infromed.​A lot of stories fly across our radar here at The Blotter on any given day. We never know what's coming next, and we're never really sure what readers are going to latch onto -- with a few notable exceptions. With that in mind, here's our Top 10 list of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Keith Ellison scores Progressive Caucus chairmanship [UPDATE]

    Keith Ellison wins another election.​Rep. Keith Ellison has just won election as a chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. That means the leader of of one of Congress's most liberal groups now shares a property line of sorts with the chairwoman of one of its most conservative, Rep. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Keith Ellison seeks top Progressive Caucus post

    Ellison keeps swinging left.​Regardless of the Election Day teabagger wave, a whole lot of Democrats won re-election to the House of Representatives two weeks ago, sent there by Americans who expect them to fight the Republican tide. One of those Democrats is 5th district Rep. Keith Ellison. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Keith Ellison rolling to re-election

    Ellison swept his opponents off the map​With 95 percent of the precincts reporting, looks like Keith Ellison has won a second term to Congress. The numbers came in fast and decisive: Ellison, 68.5 percent, Joel Demos, 23.6 percent.This race had more than its fair share of bigoted overtones. 

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Michele Bachmann was for the stimulus while she was against it

    Bachmann: Saddling our kids with the fedeal debt is OK when she does it.​Remember the Fox News gabfests, the D.C. rallies and the campaign ads where Michele Bachmann brags about voting against President Barack Obama's stimulus bill? Too much federal spending, she says. Turns out she had her h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Michele Bachmann dodges tea party smackdown with sick day

    Graphic: Matt BardinsTea partiers in Missouri were spoiling for a fight with Michele Bachmann​So much for the smackdown with Missouri tea partiers: Michele Bachmann called in sick. Instead of showing up in the Show Me state in a dialing-for-votes effort with Rep. Roy Blunt, she went home after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Michele Bachmann vs. "Joe The Plumber" smackdown

    ​Michele Bachmann recently crowned herself the queen of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress, with ready-for-Fox News sound bites about saving the U.S. from socialist hell. But according to a bunch of Missouri teabaggers, along with Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher, Bachmann's part of the problem.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Illiterate Tea Party Caucus slogan nominations [PHOTOS]

    Michele Bachmann invented herself a Tea Party Caucus, put herself in charge, and she's trumpeting who's in -- and who's not. We believe that it's our patriotic duty to help her spread the word with the help of a new slogan. Our nominees: Tea Party Caucus: Impeah Obama! Photo via Pargon/Teabonics/ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    RSVP to Michele Bachmann's Tea Party

    Who wants to board Michele Bachmann's crazy train?​Michele Bachmann is having a tea party! Only instead of inviting all the neighborhood girls to bring their dollies, she's hosting members of Congress!Bachmann has scheduled a special announcement to reveal the elite members of her new Tea Party Ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Bachmann: I'm the "receptacle" of the Tea Party

    Michele Bachmann is queen of the Tea Party.​Michele Bachmann's crazy Tea Party Caucus press conference surpassed all expectations and was even loonier than we could have imagined.The first thing the Tea Party did was trot out their new Uncle Toms. Apparently stung by the accusation that they're a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Michele Bachmann crowned "Queen of Crap" on MSNBC [VIDEO]

    MSNBC crowns the Tea Party Caucus chair the Queen of Crap​Michele Bachmann decided last week that Congress needed a Tea Party Caucus, and promptly made herself its chairwoman. MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan has now derided her as "full of crap" for talking about fiscal responsibility while siding wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Michele Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus

    Michele Bachmann's House Tea Party Caucus​Crazy Congresswoman Michele Bachmann filed paperwork yesterday to form the House Tea Party Caucus.Bachmann claims that she started the Tea Party Caucus "to promote Americans' call for fiscal responsibility, adherence to the Constitution, and limited govern ... More >>

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