Tag: tea party

Sarah Palin loses in her Home State Of Alaska Backing Politically and Financially George Miller For U.S. Senate seat

Conservative Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin, pictured in October 2010, said Wednesday she could beat President Barack Obama in a race for the White House amid growing speculation she will run for the presidency in 2012.« (AFP/Getty Images/File/Randy Snyder)

Ex- half term quitter the governor of Alaska pulled out all the stops to help her tea party candidate George Miller win the Alaskan U.S. Senate seat but failed when write in candidate republican Lisa Murkowski won the seat outright. Question is  if Mrs. Palin can’t win in her backyard she may not be as formable candidate in the presidential general election as some political pundits have suggested in 2012.

The stunning victory of a write in candidate that stopped the tea party express.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)

Ladies Night…Tuesday’s Primary Voters Shake Up Good Old Boy Political Establishment

South Carolina Republican candidate for governor, Rep. Nikki Haley, right, and her husband Michael Haley, left, react to news of an early lead, while watching the returns come in, on Primary night, at the Capital City Club in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, June 8, 2010.(AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)

Women Rule Primary Night…

From South Carolina to California woman such as Nikki Haley and Blanche Lincoln weathered the storm and came out on top. I’m not so certain it was a gender vote more as a push back from voters to established party candidates.

The irony though is both Blanche Lincoln and Nikki Haley are established party politicians but both were able to run like outsiders in their respective state primaries.

 

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., greets supporters as her husband Steve, left, watches as the senator claimed victory in the Democratic primary runoff election in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, June 8, 2010.(AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman celebrates after winning the Republican nomination for California governor in Los Angeles, California, June 8, 2010.REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

 

House To Vote Directly On Senate Bill;Tea Party D.C. Rally Turns Mob Ugly

BREAKING — House to vote directly on the Senate bill … 

The House announced today it will give the Senate bill a straight up or down vote tomorrow. A positive indication democrats have the 216 votes to pass the senate bill.

A graphic showing the extent of current US healthcare insurance coverage. President Barack Obama looked to energize his Democratic allies Saturday with an in-person appeal for his historic health care overhaul on the eve of a cliffhanger vote on the sweeping legislation.(AFP/Graphic)

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 Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health-care reform bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.