Posts by David Weigel
For conservative donors, latest RNC scandal is the ‘nail in the coffin’
For many conservative activists, the RNC’s lavish spending only accelerated the revolt against the committee that had been brewing for months.
Repeal becomes GOP litmus test
The GOP base is clamoring for its party to repeal health care reform — indeed, promising anything but full repeal can prompt a mini-revolt — but there’s plenty of wiggle room as to what exactly repeal would mean.
Conservatives doubt path to health reform repeal
Beneath the headlines, press releases, petitions and donation drives that followed Sunday’s historic vote in the U.S. House, lawyers and legislators in opposition to health care reform legislation are less confident that it can be repealed — much less that it can be repealed quickly.
Through tears, Tea Party activists vow to keep fighting health care reform
“The American people lost today,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) to Tea Party activists who’d just learned of passage of the health reform bill Sunday. “But we’ve got some opportunities. We’ll fight this in the courts. We’ll fight this at the ballot box. Hopefully, in January, we’ll have enough votes to begin the process of repealing this bill.”
Bachmann pushes rumor that ‘Kucinich sold out for veganism’
I thought yesterday’s NRCC hit on Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) for the “coincidence” of voting for health care reform after his wife got to appear at
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Nervous tea partiers see possible Democratic win on health care
Tea party protests on Capitol Hill are getting smaller and more pessimistic as activists realize the U.S. House of Representatives may well pass the health care reform bill.
Romney tries to fill GOP national security void
After being outmatched by John McCain on national security in the 2008 presidential primary, Mitt Romney hopes to capitalize on the issue in 2012.
Bunning’s unemployment benefits blockade now a conservative rallying cry
Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) blockade on extending temporarily unemployment benefits put the Tea Party movement in an unfamiliar position. Instead of nudging the Republican Party to take a stand, activists watched a politician pick an anti-government fight they didn’t even know existed.
Ron Paul wins presidential straw poll at conservative convention
Rep. Ron Paul’s surprise win in the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference is being dismissed by some party insiders as the result of eager young Paul fans casting their votes. But Paul’s win — topping the likes of Mitt Romney and Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who placed fourth — reveals plenty about the state of conservatism today.
At CPAC, Tea Party movement re-enters conservative fold
On Thursday, the Tea Party and libertarian factions of the conservative base re-entered the fold and took center stage in packed-to-the-rafters educational panels at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. And at the same time, mainstream conservative groups invited these activists to rejoin the Republican Party that had disappointed them.
