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Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.), a Republican presidential candidate, called Saturday morning for Republicans and the Tea Party to stop fighting and work together to help save the country, presumably from Democratic policies, although he was not specific. “On the right, take note,” McCotter said on the House floor. “It is as unwarranted and injurious for a Republican to call a Tea Partier a hobbit as it is for a Tea Partier to call a Republican a RINO.”

This afternoon will mark an historical event: The FIRST EVER Presidential Twitter Debate! 640 WGST and Theteaparty.net have teamed up to bring you 5 GOP hopefuls as they face off online. The participants include: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, and Rick Santorum. Rusty Humphries and S.E. Cupp will be your hosts and moderators today starting at 3pm. Follow the tweets online (below) and LISTEN LIVE to the play-by-play and analysis from Rusty's panel of pundits. Jeffrey Kuhner from the Washington Times will be on hand along with John Hayward from Humanevents.com. Read more: http://www.640wgst.com/pages/Rusty_Humphries.html?article=8850590#ixzz1SfcKkvua

Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) formally announced his White House bid last week. Yesterday, in an interview with John Roberts on Fox News, he took aim at Romney, slamming the "Obama-Romney economy." "Unemployment rising, people struggling in the Obama-Romney economy," McCotter tweeted Friday. The congressman expanded on that critique during a Saturday interview with Fox News. "We have Obama as the champion of big government, we see Romney as champion of bail out banks in Wall Street bailout. They are less rivals than they are running mates," he said. Representative McCotter defended his support of auto bailouts, "saying he's [in] favor...

Due to copyright "stuff" I can't post an article on here from the Detroit Free Press, but it seems that Michigan GOP Congressman Thaddeus McCotter is entering the GOP race for Prez. The guy is very, very Conservative and smart. He has a very sharp wit and would devastate President Clueless in a Debate. He will have a little trouble explaining his vote for money for the Michigan Auto Industry, but, he does represent auto workers after all. He's been on FOX a lot (Red Eye [where they absolutely love him] and Huckabee.) Dude also plays a mean guitar. Just...

Big Labor bosses seeking protection from non-union competition on government construction jobs had a two-front fight going on last week in both Washington, D.C., and Lansing. Votes to determine the fate of project labor agreements occurred in both the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives and the GOP-dominated Michigan Senate. When it was all over, a total of 34 Republican lawmakers from Michigan had cast votes on these legislative battlefields, and just one voted on the side of the labor unions to protect PLAs: Congressman Thad McCotter, R-Livonia. “A PLA is little more than a mechanism to put non-union construction companies...

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter will make a "major announcement" Saturday about whether he will run for president in next year's election, a person familiar with the plans said Thursday. McCotter's office said Thursday that the 45-year-old will be the keynote speaker Saturday at a festival in Whitmore Lake. "He's going to make a major announcement at that event," the person, who is in contact with the Livonia congressman, told The Associated Press.

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) will enter the race for the presidency this weekend, according to published reports. McCotter, a five-term congressman who said recently that he thought the presidential field had room for more conservative candidates, will file paperwork to enter the race on Fiday, according to reports.

At today’s Iowa Straw Poll land auction, participating campaigns were surprised by a mystery participant who would not state which campaign she was representing. Kellie Paschke, a lobbyist whose clients include Iowans for Tax Relief, arrived at the scheduled Straw Poll auction intending to bid on a parcel of the Iowa State Center for an undisclosed candidate. Before the meeting started, representatives of Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, and Rick Santorum were seen outside the building discussing the situation of the mystery bidder. The representatives went inside and began the meeting, but a short time later, campaign representatives and party staff...

U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan says he's giving serious consideration to making a run for the Republican nomination for president. The fifth-term congressman from Livonia said Wednesday during an interview on WJR-AM in Detroit the job is attractive because it would allow him to shape the debate in Washington. But he says the ultimate decision will be made in consultation with his wife, Rita, a registered nurse, and their three kids. Politico reported a day earlier that McCotter would make his decision within the next two weeks. McCotter also has been linked with a possible run for the U.S....

The hand-wringing over the Republican presidential field has not abated much since Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced he would not be seeking the GOP nomination, but a new name might soon be entering the fray, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, the guitar-playing, soul-searching libertarian from Michigan. Mr. McCotter has told Politico he’s seriously considering a run and will make his decision in the next two weeks. Never heard of him? Well, here’s a McCotter primer: His jams on a Fender Telecaster emblazoned with red, white and blue , although he has been known to pick up a Stratocaster as well. The conservative...

Sources around Capitol Hill are chatting up a dark horse candidate for the 2012 Republican nominee for president, I'm told. Conservative Republican donors and grassroots activists, who have raised concerns that there is not yet a true Reagan conservative in the GOP presidential primary are privately encouraging Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, Michigan Republican, to look at a potential entry.

Freedom Radio Rocks with Congressman Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan and Diana West, Sunday May 1 at 8 pm EST. McCotter is known as the conservative congressman from Michigan, but is also widely known as the congressman from FoxÂ’s Red Eye, with the required wit of a visionary statesman. Listen here to a sample of McCotters wit and wisdom. Also check out his new book Seize Freedom. We will be sure to include in our discussion with the Congressman, his Flying Squirrels band appearance in support of our vets and their families at the Armed Forces Family Aid Concert, which will...

The sign outside the ballroom was matter-of-fact: "Unsigned $20. Signed $15. No Haggling." That matter-of-fact sign was next to a matter-of-fact pile of books, which sat on a matter-of-fact folding table. And sitting behind it was a matter-of-fact man, whom you might walk right past without so much as a glance. That's too bad, because he could become the next President of the United States. The man was Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, and he was signing copies of his new book, "Seize Freedom! American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age," outside the Conservative Principles Conference in Des Moines late...

Reagan@100: He Won the McCotter Household’s Cold War, Too February 4, 2011 4:51 P.M. By Thaddeus G. McCotter By the time I turned 15 in 1980, I had grown acutely aware of a quadrennial rift between my parents. My father was a Truman Democrat; my mother was an Eisenhower Republican; and my brother and myself were KISS fans. Then one cold November night, there was a thaw. My father walked in the door, sat my mother down, and in a hushed, tremulous tone — as if every fellow Irish Catholic Democrat he had known from his days in the St....

Are Republicans in danger of making the same mistake that George H. W. Bush made in 1991? Bush, you will recall, was wary of "instability" in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China. Thus, he delivered his infamous "Chicken Kiev" speech urging the Ukraine not to secede. Ukrainians, of course, rejected Bush's counsel and did just that, by declaring their independence three weeks later. Bush also refused to encourage the Chinese student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square -- even though these student demonstrators had built a replica of the Statue of Liberty and were quoting Jefferson, our Declaration of Independence,...

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) represents one of the largest Egyptian-American populations in America. "We do not want history to record that we had a failed democratic revolution within our enemy Iran, and a succesful revolution within our ally Egypt that led to consequences for our national security.

De Pasquale’s Dozen: Rep. Thaddeus McCotter by Lisa De Pasquale 06/03/2010 When conservative actor Robert Davi told me Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R.-Mich.) should be President, I laughed. Just kidding. I said, “Who?” Rep. McCotter represents the 11th district in Michigan and can play guitar behind his head. He is chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee and frequent contributor to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood. Actually, before Davi professed his love for bald, Michigan congressmen, I saw McCotter speak at the weekly Blogger Briefing organized by Robert Bluey at The Heritage Foundation. Unlike some members of Congress, Rep. McCotter doesn’t do...

Just got this in my email box. Shapiro hosted for Doyle yesterday and was awesome: We'll have on Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), and we'll tackle the latest triumphalism from the Obama White House over the destruction of America's health care system. We'll also have exclusive tape on President Obama's new judicial nominee who many say will be sitting on the Supreme Court within the next year -- and yes, he's a radical socialist! You can listen live here.

Last week, Congressman Thad McCotter introduced a Bill HR 4500, The Freedom From Rationed Health Care Act, that invalidates a little known, hidden part of the Stimulus Bill. That hidden part of The Stimulus Bill created the rationing and enforcement boards. ..In my discussion with Judge Napolitano on the Glenn Beck Show, I hammered on the facts that (1) the Rationing and Enforcement Boards were already created and passed into law through the Stimulus Bill (2) the President had already appointed the members, funding them to the tune of $20.6 BILLION. When I pointed out that these boards were charged...

... Thad McCotter is chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, a leadership position from which he will play a role in shaping the GOP congressional agenda. [...] [...] Shortly after Barack Obama took office, Gutfeld asked McCotter the familiar question about whether the GOP was in "disarray." His reply was typical McCotter, with carefully wielded pop culture references sending his co-panelists into guffaws as he dutifully pressed his party's case. "Well, when we were growing up we used to look at the Flock of Seagulls' hair and we'd say that looks in disarray, but there was a whole lot...