“Dick Armey” on The Daily Caller

The tea party-aligned organization FreedomWorks is not ready to coalesce behind Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney yet, an official told The Daily Caller. (more)

On Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN, following former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s defeat in the Nevada primary on Saturday, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey said Gingrich’s campaign  has become less of a campaign and more of a vendetta. (more)

ORLANDO, Fla. – As the 2012 election draws near, FreedomWorks, the behemoth tea party organization, has learned a few things from past elections. (more)

Commentator Michelle Malkin said Friday she doesn’t think Republican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch should be re-elected, despite a pro-Hatch website prominently displaying a quotation from her on its website. (more)

A mysterious anti-Dick Armey website called “WhoisDickArmey.com” has been launched, The Daily Caller learned Friday. (more)

The government-shutdown blame game is in full swing. Which party will suffer the public’s wrath over delayed Social Security checks and shuttered monuments? Republicans are still smarting from the last time the government closed in 1996, when President Clinton got the upper hand. But a fresh look at history shows Republicans are not fully to blame. It turns out they had an accomplice . . . me, or more precisely, my lips. (more)

That could happen, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, said Thursday. (more)

Can GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt talk President Obama into a major corporate tax cut? Immelt has been appointed to the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which replaces the disbanded Paul Volcker Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Immelt was a member of that original board. Now he has a more elevated position in the Obama 2.0, allegedly pro-business, move-to-the-center Clintonesque White House. (more)

— “It is unlikely that House Republicans will take the vote to repeal the health care law, shrug their shoulders when it doesn’t reach the Senate, and move on,” writes The Daily Caller’s Chris Moody. “We aren’t going to just check the box off and say that we had one vote and we’re going to move on to other topics,” Rep. Michele Bachmann said Tuesday. Rep. Steve King echoed Bachmann’s sentiments, saying, “This is going to be a debate that goes on not just today and tomorrow and next week. It’s going to go on for the next year or two. It’s probably going to go on until we elect a president that will sign a final repeal of Obamacare. So this is an ongoing debate.” The GOP will fight, just like the Spartans fought at Thermopylae, until they are all dead of old age/exasperation, or until Americans return both the legislative branch and the executive branch to the second worst party in the country. In the meantime, House Republicans will build their own health care bill, starting with the key accomplishment of Obamacare: “A measure to restrict insurance companies from discriminating based on pre-existing conditions.” (more)

It’s inevitable. A new party is forming. (more)

FreedomWorks, the conservative political organization that spent millions of dollars helping to elect tea party-backed candidates across the country, is hosting a retreat in Baltimore on Thursday and Friday to encourage congressional Republicans to stay true to the small-government principles they espoused during the campaign. (more)

House Republicans Thursday reacted strongly against Rep. Michele Bachmann’s decision to run for a top leadership post in the new majority, looking to nip in the bud any chance that she might attract support from the substantially large group of incoming freshman lawmakers. (more)

They got behind like-minded candidates and crafted an agenda. Now it’s time to govern, those involved in the Tea Party movement say. (more)

New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie continues to say he’s not interested in running for president, but the ever-popular Republican known for cutting spending and taking on his state’s teacher union has been stumping across the country over the last month for candidates in a month-long tour that will bring him to Iowa next week. (more)

“Fear God (more)

Tea Party activists who are debating whether to embrace “family values” issues in a year when the economy could make or break the Democrats and sweep their candidates to power are also divided over another hot-button issue — immigration. (more)

Christine O’Donnell’s stunning victory in Delaware over the liberal — but, as some have argued, much more electable — Republican Rep. Mike Castle for the GOP Senate nomination was the culmination of several days of heated back-and-forth among conservatives. Here’s a sampling:
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Democrats love a good fight on the right. (more)

FreedomWorks held the second annual March on Washington and 9/12 rally on Sunday. Tea Partiers from around the country marched from the Washington Monument to the Capitol Building via Pennsylvania Avenue calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama to listen to the people about their concerns with government spending. (more)

The Tea Party effect may have hit Maine’s sometimes-liberal Republican Senator Olympia Snowe on Friday as a new Public Policy Polling poll suggested she might have to consider running as a Democrat in 2012 if she wants to keep her job – something that conservative Scott D’Amboise, who announced his candidacy back in February, is jumping at. (more)