Kurt Schlichter I was furious that Thad Cochran slimed his way to victory, but every time we hardcore conservatives lose a battle, it seems a contingent of bitter-enders starts up about how the Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same, and how they’ll refuse to vote in the general, and how they’ll take their collective […] Continue reading → 
A tea party official charged with conspiring to take photos of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife inside a nursing home apparently committed suicide Friday, police said, days after Cochran won a nasty Republican primary. The body of attorney Mark Mayfield was found Friday morning in the garage of his two-story, brick home in a gated […] Continue reading → 
U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi narrowly defeated challenger Chris McDaniel on Tuesday in a high-profile runoff election that pitted the Republican Party establishment against the insurgent Tea Party movement. The bitterly-fought election had become a multimillion-dollar referendum on the direction of the Republican Party as it tries to win control of the U.S. Senate […] Continue reading → 
Battling for political survival, six-term Sen. Thad Cochran led tea party favorite Chris McDaniel Tuesday night in a bruising, costly Mississippi primary runoff that exposed deep divisions within the Republican Party. With 92 percent of precincts reporting, Cochran led with 51 percent to McDaniel’s 49 percent. The veteran lawmaker and his allies had highlighted his […] Continue reading → 
Tea Party and Establishment Races Dominate the Center Stage While there are not a lot of primaries on June 24th, the quality makes up for the lack of quantity. Conservatives hope to inflate their ranks in the US Senate by two while the power of opposing illegal immigration heats up in Colorado. In New York, […] Continue reading → 
In a setback for the tea party and libertarian forces in Iowa, establishment Republicans on Saturday nominated their candidate for a House seat in one of the nation’s most competitive congressional districts. The nomination of David Young in Iowa’s 3rd District punctuated the efforts of Republicans in the party’s mainstream who had desperately worked to […] Continue reading → 
HONOLULU—Hawaii tea party leaders are outraged the Internal Revenue Service lost emails of Lois Lerner, former director of IRS’ Exempt Organizations Unit, during a critical time when the agency admitted to targeting conservative groups for additional scrutiny. The agency informed Congress of the missing emails in a letter last week. The IRS said Lerner’s emails […] Continue reading → 
The IRS targeting of conservative groups scandal, which was originally explained away as rogue agents at a local office, has proven to be a wide-ranging pattern of criminal misdeeds that have been traced back to Washington, most notably members of Congress, the Department of Justice, and even the White House. A slew of released emails […] Continue reading → 
A Louisiana conservative seeking to be the No.3 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives has the potential to be a bridge between the party’s leadership and Tea Party rebels. Representative Steve Scalise is a staunch conservative who, in assessing President Obama’s first 100 days in office in 2009, gave him a grade he considers […] Continue reading → 
Eric Cantor’s defeat in a primary this week poses a tricky problem for Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel. The victorious David Brat slammed Cantor for being soft on immigration, calling it “the most symbolic issue that captures the difference” between the two men. The Journal, however, explicitly favors open borders. Strassel’s solution is an […] Continue reading → 
An outspoken Tea Party-backed Republican lawmaker on Friday opened his campaign for the No. 2 leadership post in the House of Representatives against a top deputy of Speaker John Boehner in a bid to boost conservatives’ influence in the party. Raul Labrador of Idaho said he would run for the House Majority Leader job in […] Continue reading → 
Haley Barbour almost certainly isn’t running for office again in Mississippi, but the former governor, one-time Republican National Committee chief and influential Washington lobbyist is playing a prominent role in the state’s battle for the GOP Senate nomination. Barbour is the patriarch of a politically savvy family driving Sen. Thad Cochran’s bid for a seventh […] Continue reading → 
Aw, shoot! The IRS was trying so hard to come up with documents requested by the House Ways and Means Committee, as part of its investigation into the abuse of power against conservative groups during the 2012 election. But wouldn’t you know it? One of those newfangled computer thingamabobs had itself a crash, and all […] Continue reading → 
The shock defeat of Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary in Virginia this week has fueled hopes among Tea Party activists in Tennessee that they can stage a similar upset against Senator Lamar Alexander in August. But the Cantor loss, while enough to shake Washington and the Republican establishment, may not be […] Continue reading → 
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s defeat this week in a primary election in Virginia has ignited a race among lawmakers who’d like to have his GOP leadership job. And Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s decision to try to move up to majority leader from his current job as whip has created another contest. Votes are scheduled for […] Continue reading → 
Representative Brat is a marked man Dave Brat, a professor of economics at Virginia’s Randolph-Macon College, is a marked man. Professor Brat defeated Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a prime trophy of the Israel Lobby. I doubt that Eric Cantor ever lost an opportunity to place Israel’s interests above the interests of his constituents. […] Continue reading →