“Joe the Plumber” on The Daily Caller

About 5,000 Tea Party protesters gathered in St. Augustine on Saturday to voice their concerns regarding Democratic control of Washington, staying mostly positive despite an apparent effort to disrupt their rally. (more)

Supporters of the Tea Party Movement say they are dedicated to the ideals and principles of the Founding Fathers. Wouldn’t it be ironic, then, if they succeeded in forcing from office a man who has shed as much blood for his country as any Patriot in the Revolutionary War? (more)

After the recent period of [intlink id="694653" type="post"]cool treatment of Israel by the Obama administration[/intlink], the New York Times reported that there will be a Seder in the White House this year to commemorate Passover. One wonders if the well-timed and prominently placed piece is supposed to cause American Jews to forget the substantive activity of the past few weeks and suddenly celebrate this new symbolic gesture. (more)

Sitting at the Purim Spiel (an annual Jewish fundraiser where Broadway stars perform to raise money for the Birthright Israel Foundation) and waiting for the stage lights to dim, I began chatting with a friend about how exciting it is to see a resurgence of young Jewish conservatives in New York. (more)

1.) Lawmakers: We don’t fight without putting clothes on first – “I don’t go in the shower. I don’t accost people,” Sen. Jon Tester told the Washington Post Tuesday. The denial follows former Rep. Eric Massa’s claims–reiterated Tuesday night on Larry King Live and the Glenn Beck’s show–that a naked and feisty Rahm Emanuel accosted Massa while the two were showering in the House gym. According to Sen. Jim DeMint, Massa broke the first rule of gym time: Never talk about gym time. “It’s protocol never to talk about what you talk about there,” DeMint told the Post. Other congressmen said funny things, too. “It’s the only place where you get to see a member in a different light,” Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy said. “Way too many middle-aged, overweight men walk around that locker room without any clothes on…I wish they would just drape themselves with towels,” added Joe Scarborough, who represented Florida in the House before making the move to television. FYI, these people are running things, so there’s that, too. (more)

Last week I made a rare appearance on MSNBC (a network on which I have had numerous “YouTube moments” since the 2008 election, when they became the “Obama Network”) and shared some statements which apparently shocked some of my fellow conservatives. (more)

Arizona’s Republican primary may not be until Aug. 24, but as March dawns in the Grand Canyon state former Congressman J.D. Hayworth is working hard to win voter support in his uphill conservative primary challenge to Sen. John McCain. (more)

DCCC to institute paddling if members don’t catch up on dues — Dems distraught over distant, distracted public option — Eric Holder confuses drug dealers with terrorists — Inhofe seeks climate redemption — Christians attack C Street for being shady — Dirty Chavez embarrasses self, southern hemisphere, in Mexico (more)

Wurzelbacher touched on several different points during his speech, and many of them were surprising. He said he doesn’t support Sarah Palin anymore. Why? Because she’s backing John McCain’s re-election effort. “John McCain is no public servant,” he told the room, calling the 2008 Republican nominee a career politician. (more)

1.) Dems: We’ll pass health care as soon as we finish watching this show — Dems said yesterday that “they no longer felt pressure to move quickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missing them,” the NYT reports. As Sen. Harry Reid pointed out to the paper, “there is no rush;” both health care and the swaying tower of empty takeout boxes in Reid’s office will still be there when Congressional Dems finish covering their rears on the jobs front. Reid says that he is working with Rep. Nancy Pelosi toward a procedural workaround for the long-lost bill, as well as schematics for a time-travel device, tentatively titled the Massachusetts Way-Back Machine. Other Dems sound even more hopeless about everything in the entire world, like Steny H. Hoyer, who told the NYT that he doubts Pres. Barack Obama will say “specifically exactly how he hopes to get health care done.” (more)