Posts Tagged ‘Op-Ed’
Jenny Beth’s Journal: Senate is in desperate need of reform so it can function as the esteemed chamber it was intended to be
In her latest column, Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin says Republicans need to ‘shut down’ the Democrats if there is any hope of saving the Senate. Now the minority in the Senate, Democrats are looking for any opportunity to be “obstructionists.” From using the blue slip, to refusing to show up for votes,…
Read MoreActually, Speaker Boehner, we disagree on a lot
Over at The Daily Caller today, Tea Party Patriots’ Jenny Beth Martin has an op-ed responding to House Speaker John Boehner’s interview on 60 Minutes. The Speaker seems to think the Tea Party is all about disagreements “over tactics” and not substantive disagreements over things like Obamacare, immigration, and budgets. But as Martin explains, that’s…
Read MoreJoin the fight against the FEC!
In today’s op-ed for the Washington Times, [1] Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin partnered with FreedomWorks CEO and President Matt Kibbe to address unprecedented new efforts, led by FEC chair Ann Ravel, to regulate online speech. They write, in part: Under the current FEC regulations, political advertising and commentary posted for free on…
Read MoreJenny Beth Martin: When we stick to our principles, we win
There’s no shortage of people handicapping the 2014 primary season but most of them are focusing on the wrong thing; it’s not the people in these primaries but the principles. Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin’s May 16 column in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call makes the case of how our principles of…
Read MoreKeli Carender: Socialism, Seattle Style
The extended recession of the Obama administration and the sluggish economic recovery have spawned something of a faddish parlor game among the liberal intelligentsia; whether American capitalism has run its course and it’s time to usher in a socialist model of government. After all, with stubbornly high unemployment, workforce participation at historic lows and myriad…
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