The tea-party movement: Waiting for Captain America | The Economist

DAVID WEIGEL, Slate’s roving political reporter, looks at the Iowa caucus entrance polls and draws three lessons from Tuesday night’s results. I agree with each of Mr Weigel’s lessons, but I’d like to reflect on …

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Focus on Electability as Caucuses Near – NYTimes.com

Rick Santorum and Ron Paul defended themselves on Sunday against claims that they could not win in November, as a new poll suggested that they were now the primary threat to …

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Jon Stewart on Pat Robertson and GOP Craziness | Lauren Lipsay | Rolling Stone

In an unexpected move – and fresh off of saying it was OK for Christians to divorce spouses with Alzheimer’s Disease – noted televangelist Pat ‘Gay People Cause Hurricanes’ Robinson recently fretted that that the hard-right GOP base was forcing presidential candidates into positions so extreme as to make them …

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Is the Tea Party Over? – NYTimes.com

This was supposed to be the Tea Party’s time. The incumbent president the rebels despise so much seemed vulnerable. The Republican establishment was AWOL, leaderless or intimidated. So the angry, God-fearing, government-loathing populist …

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Dislike of Tea Party Is Key to 2012 Vote | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Saw this item in Mother Jones, thought it was worth pointing out. Apparently a new CNN poll is showing the unfavorability rating of the Tea Party is …

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