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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
In Defense Of The Tax-Day Tea Parties — The of tea-party enthusiasm on the American right has provoked a fairly typical reaction from the organized American left. It's a fake. It involves tea bags and (a) Dick Armey. It's got the consistency of astroturf, not natural grass.
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Jim Iovino / NBC Washington:
1 Million Tea Bags, But No Place to Dump — Permits end dumping before it starts — WASHINGTON — It was a great idea, really. Take a million tea bags and dump them in Lafayette Park to protest government spending. Hip, hip, hoo-ray! — But a funny thing happened en route to a visually pleasing Tax Day protest.
Jane Hamsher / The Huffington Post:A Teabagger Timeline: Koch, Coors, Newt, Dick Armey There From The Start
MSNBC:Anti-tax ‘tea parties’ vent anger across U.S.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Gov. Perry Talks Secession for Texas at Tea Party: “Texas Can Leave Union If It Wants To” — All the insane talk coming from the Limbaugh National Convention is spreading into the fabric of the entire GOP. Listen to Texas Gov. Rick Perry say: … These republicans are talking treason in my mind.
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Wayne Slater / Associated Press:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry gets crowd boiling at Austin ‘tea party’ — wslater@dallasnews.com — AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry told an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday the federal government is “rampaging through the halls of Congress” with big-spending programs and only states' rights can stop it.
Texas Politics:
Perry says Texas can leave the union if it wants to — Note to commenters: The comments do not post automatically. I have to read them and post them. Since it is dinner time here, I may be away from the computer for a bit. — Speaking with reporters after a tea party rally in Austin today …
Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
Perry fires up anti-tax crowd — AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!” — An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall …
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the DC Tea Party: More Photos! — Here's a supplement to Aaron's great photo spread from this afternoon's rally. — Remember: Fox News reported on these rallies. It didn't promote them! — This was a popular theme, along with references to images of President Obama's bow to the King of Saudi Arabia.
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Michelle Malkin:
Massive: Tax Day Tea Party USA — I just have one word: Wow. More than 800 tea parties across the country. Here's your first photo/vid round-up from the events across the country, large and small, every corner of this great nation (hit your refresh button often...I'll keep updating):
Founding Bloggers:
BREAKING! Chicago Tax Day Tea Party Pictures! — UPDATE: Exclusive Video! Today, there was a brief and minor drama involving a CNN reporter and some Tea Partiers. We have posted our footage of what went down after CNN's camera's signed off. — Here are some shots from the tax day tea party in Chicago.
New York Times:
N.S.A.'s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, according to government officials.
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
CNN's Roesgen grills tea party protestor who calls Obama a “fascist,” says protest “highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox” — This whole FARCE is custom made for cable news, not the MSM of network TV. The MSM cant cover something 24/7 like CNN or FOX can.
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Chris / TVNewser:CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's “Anti-CNN Since This is …
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Jimmy Vielkind / Politicker NY:
NY-20 Judge: Most Objections Invalid — ALBANY—Judge James Brands just ruled that most of the over 1,200 contested absentee ballots in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress were objected to improperly based on discrepancies in their applications. This means many more ballots will be counted.
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RushLimbaugh.com:
President Obama Ordered the Killing of Three Black Muslim Kids — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them? They were teenagers.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Limbaugh defends the teenage pirates of Somalia while a US Cargo ship evaded another pirate attack — Without comment: … (h/t Mark Nicholas) — Last night there was a report that another attack had happened on a US Cargo ship:
Department of Homeland Security:
Statement by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on the Threat of Right-Wing Extremism — The primary mission of this department is to prevent terrorist attacks on our nation. The document on right-wing extremism sent last week by this department's Office …
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
World's Stupidest Argument — Bush flunkies trying to argue that Obama is more polarizing than Bush was. Given the fact that Obama had to take dramatic action, at home and abroad, to start lifting the country from the mess Bush made almost everywhere—and also begin to turn the country away …
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William Yardley / New York Times:
For Gov. Palin, a Rough Return to the Day Job — JUNEAU, Alaska — Before Tina Fey and “Drill, baby, drill,” there was mud season here in the Alaskan capital. This soggy, socked-in spring has been no exception, but it sure has been different in other ways.
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Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Minn. Senate flashpoint: the judges — Norm Coleman's campaign hasn't yet filed its expected appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court, but partisans are already gearing up for what could be the next flashpoint in the Coleman-Al Franken Senate contest — the backgrounds of Minnesota's high court justices.
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Sarah Palin's Dad Wishes Levi Johnston Would “Buy Some Diapers” — In the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands today) Sarah Palin's father slams Levi Johnston — the 19-year-old father of Bristol Palin's baby — for recently badmouthing the Palin family in the press.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Hillary took in $5.6M in 1st quarter — In the first three months of the year, Hillary Clinton paid off $3.7 million in bills left over from her failed presidential campaign, according to a report her campaign filed Wednesday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission.
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