memeorandum: About that Tea Party convention... canceled (Raven Brooks)

3:35 PM ET, September 19, 2010

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Bridget Johnson / Ballot Box:

DeMint rips Murkowski as ‘big-tent hypocrite’ — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) ripped into Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) as a “big-tent hypocrite” in a fundraising e-mail for Tea Party favorite and GOP nominee Joe Miller on Saturday. — Murkowski announced Friday that, after the primary defeat …

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Raven Brooks:

About that Tea Party convention... canceled — Back in June we learned that the much hyped Tea Party Unity convention was being canceled and rescheduled to October 14-16 in Las Vegas. This barely registered a blip with the media at the time and I called them out on it and set the record straight on what this was really about.

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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:

Bloomberg: Tea Party is a ‘boomlet’ — In a wide-ranging interview published Saturday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg characterized the recent increase in Tea-Party rancor as a temporary development in American politics. — “I think there boomlets come along when the public is dissatisfied,” he told the New York Times.

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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Bloomberg Pushes Moderates in National Races

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Jay Heflin / Ballot Box: Hayworth to be Tea Party spokesman

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Myth and Madness — Christine O'Donnell is in a fantasy world. Literally. — The pretty Palin Mini-Me identifies with the women of Middle Earth, comparing herself to the female characters in the “Lord of the Rings” novels by J. R. R. Tolkien. — “Look at the significance that he gives to Eowyn …

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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Rove: Murkowski's write-in campaign is ‘sad and sorry’

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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
In Iowa, Palin Skips Candidate Routine

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The Hill:

Clinton says he was wrong on healthcare bill's popularity — Former president Bill Clinton, a champion of healthcare reform, admitted on Sunday that he made the wrong prediction about the popularity of President Obama's healthcare bill. — Initially, Clinton had predicted that the polls …

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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Tea Party is ‘general revolt against bigness’

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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:

Colin Powell critical of President Obama — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican who endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president in 2008, said on Sunday the president needs to “shift” his approach with voters feeling overloaded by a series of new laws that expand the scope of government.

Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Powell holds off on next endorsement, says Obama should focus on ‘governing’

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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:

Members of U.S. platoon in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport — AT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it. — For weeks, according to Army charging documents …

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New York Post:

Rep. Meeks helped ‘jihad’ flier — Tweet — US Rep. Gregory Meeks scolded immigration officials for questioning a Muslim scholar whose nonprofits have been linked to financing terrorism. — The Queens Democrat contacted federal agencies — finally appealing to then-Homeland Security …

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Daily Mail:

Britain goes halal... but no-one tells the public: How famous institutions serve ritually slaughtered meat with no warning — A Mail on Sunday investigation - which will alarm anyone concerned about animal cruelty - has revealed that schools, hospitals, pubs and famous sporting venues …

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Michelle Malkin:

Bill Maher's witch hunt — and the missing context for O'Donnell's remarks — Narcissism. Blackmail. Distortion. All wrapped in his trademark smirk of pallor. Yes, it's tired old liberal “comedian” Bill Maher trying to get Senate GOP primary candidate Christine O'Donnell to come …

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John / Power Line:
Christine O'Donnell's Career, RIP

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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:

Gingrich Calls For Federal Ban On Shariah Law In US — The second morning of speeches at the Values Voter Summit here in DC was dominated by a man who is swiftly becoming the nation's spokesperson for Islamophobia — former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Fresh off the release of his Islam-focused film …

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Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Pence edges out Huckabee, Romney in conservatives' straw poll for president

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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:

Hey, Look at Me, I'm a Conservative Dupe or, What Part of Massive Increases in Federal Spending Don't You Understand? — Over at The New Republic, Jon Chait takes issue with my blog post from yesterday that's titled, “Why is everyone picking on the ‘Bush tax cuts’ rather than the ‘Bush spending increases’?”

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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:

In Which Mr. Deling Responds to Someone Who Might Be Professor Todd Henderson — I had published a link and a long excerpt from Michael O'Hare's rant after reading University of Chicago Law Professor Todd Henderson. — And now somebody purporting to be University of Chicago Professor Todd Henderson writes: