“Tea party” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican political figure and tea-party favorite Christine O’Donnell says she’s backing Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. (more)

Kentucky GOP senator and tea party supporter Rand Paul blasted Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich Friday, calling the former House Speaker a “big government, status quo Republican.” (more)

It should come as no surprise that some people are biased against the tea party movement. We have seen it in the media, which often portrays tea partiers as anti-government naysayers and rabble-rousers with nothing better to do than complain. At the same time, the so-called “Occupy Wall Street” whiners have largely been given a pass. (more)

Curiously, there’s an important Senate primary race in Indiana that some top conservative voices are ignoring. The Republican incumbent candidate supported amnesty and the Kennedy-McCain DREAM Act, as well as President Obama’s nominations of Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. It’s no wonder that Senator Dick Lugar has been called “Obama’s favorite Republican.” (more)

Questlove of The Roots, the house band of “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” was attacked by “3,500 tea party extremists” on Twitter after he publicly insulted Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann by playing the song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” when she took the show’s stage last week. (more)

One tea party chapter in Virginia is fighting back against what it has called a double standard for tea partiers and members of Occupy Wall Street, and, it alleges, the capital city of Richmond has punished the group for lodging complaints. (more)

Colin Powell on Sunday blamed the media as well as the Tea Party for the divisive political tone in Washington. (more)

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder and Service Employees International Union organizer Wade Rathke acknowledged that the tea party movement has been more effective than Occupy Wall Street in influencing American politics. (more)

Thanksgiving can mean different things to different people depending on their point of view, whether it is William Jennings Bryan suggesting it’s an acknowledgement of dependence, or Rush Limbaugh suggesting it is a lesson of self-reliance and a rejection of collectivism. (more)

New York Democrat Chuck Schumer was the U.S. senator who decided that a group of tea partiers couldn’t meet in a Capitol hearing room with lawmakers on Thursday, new video shows. (more)

The Senate Rules Committee on Thursday had a message for a group of tea partiers who planned to meet with Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee and other lawmakers in a congressional office building to discuss cutting spending: You can’t meet here. (more)

Pass the tea party plan and the country’s budget will be balanced by 2015 — just four years from now — according to the organizers of the “Tea Party Debt Commission” — a project of tea party-aligned FreedomWorks. (more)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney laid out his plan to win the Republican nomination for president Monday night, the St. Petersburg Times reports. (more)

The Daily Caller spoke to celebrated author Anthony Bourdain, host of Travel Channel’s culinary program “No Reservations.” (more)

The leader of a tea party group is calling for scandal-embroiled GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain to drop out of the race. (more)

I’ve been a conservative my entire adult life. During that time, I’ve watched the conservative movement fail. Sure, I’ve seen supposedly limited-government candidates win elections and promise to shrink government. What I haven’t seen is government shrink. Ever. (more)

Registered voters view the tea party both slightly more favorably and slightly more unfavorably than Occupy Wall Street, according to a new poll set to be released Tuesday. (more)

Not long ago, our elites fretted that Election 2012 was going to be all about how much we resented them. Either a populist hateswell of “bitter clingers” would triumph over the progressive spirit of expert competence, they gulped, or sanity — in the form of elite speech, elite deeds and elite power — would prevail. (more)

“Occupy Wall Street” has captured global attention and become the darling of the world press. CNN hosts a “Meet the 99%” Web page advertising the movement on CNN.com. MSNBC’s praise of OWS has approached religious awe. Yet for all the attention, many assertions about the movement are flatly inaccurate. (more)

Former Republican Congressman Ray LaHood, currently Secretary of Transportation — and the only Republican in the Obama administration, bashed members of his party in an interview given to Eleanor Clift of The Daily Beast. (more)