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Dem bigs skip Nancy Pelosi's health-law partyBy DAVID NATHER | 3/17/11 5:08 PM EDT House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s not hiding under her desk— she held another press conference Thursday morning to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the health care law next week. The only thing missing was the rest of the heavy hitters. When the Democrats were pushing health care reform through Congress, Pelosi was always surrounded by a cast of all-stars at the big press conferences. The rest of the leadership was there, as were Rep. John Dingell of Michigan — who had gaveled the passage of Medicare...

Democrats argue party failing to humanize cuts, losing message warBy Mike Lillis - 03/18/11 06:00 AM ET A growing chorus of Democratic loyalists argue their party is losing the messaging battle over spending by failing to put a human face on cuts proposed by the GOP. Instead of shining the spotlight on the programs slashed and the people affected, Democrats have let the debate revolve around the cumulative size of the cuts, the critics charge. That attention to an arbitrary figure — and not the underlying programs on the chopping block — has spun the debate into a fight over...

The thing Rep. Scott DesJarlais remembers most about the energy crisis of 1979 is collecting extra gas money from his buddies. The Republican from Tennessee was 15. When President Reagan was renominated by his party in 1984, Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) was outside the Dallas convention center with his friends, wishing he was a few years older so he could vote for the man he already idolized.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama will keep his plans to travel to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador despite mounting crises demanding his attention. Obama is scheduled to visit the three Latin American nations starting Saturday and through March 23.

<p>UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Two western Pennsylvania men are in trouble for allegedly serving poached food at their Super Bowl party — and that doesn’t mean eggs or salmon.</p> <p>Instead, a state wildlife conservation officer has charged 21-year-old Christopher Layman, of Uniontown, and 35-year-old James Donaldson, of Lemont Furnace, with killing two deer out of season on Feb. 5 so they could serve fresh venison at their Super Bowl party the next day.</p>

I had an idle thought, which should have been my first clue to keep my brain moving I guess, but it stuck anyway: Why not just call a Teaper and pick his brain? So I googled indiana tea party and within 60 seconds I was talking to a bona fide Tea Party Leader. Cold-calling a man who takes the 2nd Amendment very seriously, what could possibly go wrong? (You gotta love the web!) Now as strange as it may seem I have never been to a Tea Party Event, or from my best recollection even talked to a ”Teaper.” If...

Oregon residents and news followers nationwide can be forgiven for shaking their heads over the Associated Press's latest item on the misadventures of Congressman David Wu. All of a sudden he's apparently not a Democrat -- well, at least he's not identified as such by the wire service's Jonathan J. Cooper. (Snip) The theory here is that now that Wu's woes have become a more prominent national story, the AP has decided that the party identification of Wu should came to a halt, lest readers get their minds polluted with the craaaaazy idea that politicians in various forms of trouble

The Big Five, CBS, NBC, ABC, the New Obama Times, and the Washington ComPost are all still in the Democrats corner. They have suppressed stories that make the Democrats look bad (deficits and debt caused by Democrats, housing bubble created by liberal policies, worldwide ineffectualism, huge unemployment numbers, failed stimulus, and Party allegiance dwindling) and highlighted Democratic Party successes. They trumpeted Obamacare, financial strangulation, bailouts and partisan payoffs as all being positive successes. They have elevated Obama to star status and yet, its not working. Their consistent Party-propaganda has fallen flat. Even with all their constant support and smear of...

CAIRO – A moderate Islamic party outlawed for 15 years was granted official recognition Saturday by an Egyptian court in a sign of increasing political openness after the fall of autocratic President Hosni Mubarak. Al-Wasat Al-Jadid, or the New Center, was founded in 1996 by activists who split off from the conservative Muslim Brotherhood and sought to create a political movement promoting a tolerant version of Islam with liberal tendencies. Its attempts to register as an official party were rejected four times since then, most recently in 2009.

Rand Paul may still be green to the ways of the U.S. Senate (he only assumed office in January) but he’s got a lot to say about the political state of the country. Most of his new book, “The Tea Party Goes to Washington,” is a defense of the movement from what he sees as unfair attacks by liberals, the Republican establishment and the mainstream media. He does, however, devote a few pages to his campaign, his childhood and his literary influences.

Hopefully, Big Government readers can help us identify these Democrat senators from Wisconsin. In the video, they claim they are heading back to the state to fulfill their constitutional obligation. They’re Democrats though, so we’re skeptical they worry about things like that. We’ll see.

1. The Rooting Interest Fan He is a diehard of one of the teams in the game and will be rooting with everything he’s got. This is one of the biggest nights of his sports fandom life and he’s taking it seriously. Then, during the kickoff, someone will walk in front of the television and he’ll suddenly realize he’s made a grave mistake: “Oh, no. I’m surrounded by morons. This is the last place I should be watching this game.” If he lives close enough, he’ll make a break for it at halftime and try to get home before the...

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., arrived early at the first-ever public meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus on Thursday. Dozens of activists had trekked into the grand meeting room of the Hart Senate Office Building just to meet the senators, or to get their signatures on their pocket Constitutions. DeMint moved quickly through the crowd and walked right into Lisa Miller. "We're really hoping that you'll present enough to balance the budget per annum within this year," said Miller, an activist from Alexandria, Va. "It takes $1.5 trillion, right now, to really start paying down the debt. But given that...

RUSH: Folks, I know I speak for all of you. We had this last caller. He's been paying attention to politics for two years and he's tired of all the bickering, and he said, "We just want everybody to get along. We want there to be no division between rich and poor." (laughs) Well, how's this gonna happen, sir? Are the rich just gonna give up their money or are the poor gonna go find the pot of gold? How does it happen? Who's gonna sit there and determine what everybody has, what everybody gets? I know I speak for...

<p>Police say a Connecticut man became so angered by a woman's reprimand for his continued flatulence at a party that he went on a stabbing spree, killing a personal friend.</p> <p>According to published reports, Marc Higgins, 21, allegedly stabbed to death his friend, Matthew Walton, and injured three others during a house party Saturday night in Bristol, Conn., where alcohol was being consumed.</p>

RUSH: We find ourselves in the midst now of a whole brand-new template that has been created, and that template is we are to shut up, in the name of civility, we are to abandon our principles, we are to stop arguing for our principles, when this isn't about civility or any of the rest of it. Accusing the president of trampling on our liberties and so forth is hate language. So Obama, he's showing the way. How about this. Ho-ho.

Talk show host Bill Maher once again displayed his ignorance for America’s history and founding by telling Tea Partiers that the Founding Fathers would have “hated” their “guts.”

We've heard that Jared did not listen to the radio or watch TV. Where did he plug in to find his favorite books, movies and conspiracies? Can we blame the internet in general? Or do we blame the vast splintered paranoid liberal left wing that occupies more of the internet than anything else? He obviously knew how post to YouTube and use social media - and links between and to his pages were found to exist before the shooting. Can We Blame The Internet? What else can we blame?

The Communist Party USA is wasting no time exploiting the recent tragic murders in Arizona to amp up its vilification campaign against the Tea Party and patriotic politicians and media personalities. They realize they have a golden opportunity here to do their enemy some real damage. This is a great case study in how communist propaganda works - take an emotionally charged event, deliberately ignore or falsify the evidence and vilify your opponent from multiple directions.

You would think the smartest guys in the room of American politics would have figured out the tea party by now. But you would be wrong. Abundant proof was just provided on the opinion pages of The New York Times in an indignant editorial entitled “The Repeal Amendment.” The Repeal Amendment is a proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to enable the legislatures of two-thirds of the states to repeal a federal law they find objectionable. It comes as a surprise to no sentient being who has witnessed the grass-roots rebellion, aka the tea party, against expanding federal power.