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Christine O'Donnell is back in the lineup for a Tea Party of America rally in Iowa.

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is set to headline a major Tea Party rally on Labor Day. The former Massachusetts governor, who lags behind ...

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Rep. Maxine Waters has four words for the tea party: Go straight to Hell. At a community summit on Saturday, the California Democrat, who has been increasingly critical of President Obama, as well, had tough words for the other side.
“I’m not afraid of anybody,” Waters said at the summit in Inglewood, Calif. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to Hell.”

A Tea Party group is fighting back against Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who said this weekend that the small-government movement "can go straight to hell."

Former White House adviser David Axelrod on Sunday pinned responsibility for the recent U.S. economic downgrade on the Tea Party movement, arguing that the group's political "brinkmanship" during debt ceiling negotiations "brought us to the brink of a default" -- and that, subsequently, "this is essentially a Tea Party downgrade."

Little more than a year ago, most Americans did not know enough about the Tea Party to have an opinion. Now, more people have opinions, and they are hardly positive. The latest on President Obama, the new Congress and other news from ...

One of the Senate nominees singled out by GOP Sen. John McCain during a tongue-lashing that compared the Tea Party movement to hobbits is responding ...

The first thing that's wrong with the new documentary glorifying former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the title."The Undefeated" profiles Palin's rise as a national heroine to the tea party, but it fails to mention that she's actually been defeated. Setting aside the 2008 presidential race when her party's ticket did not claim the White House, Palin lost a 2002 GOP primary for lieutenant governor.

The Tea Party will support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination - - even if that person is former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. That's the affirmative word from Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer.