Democrats are seeing signs of growing energy on the grassroots level, raising questions about the possibility of a Tea ...

The intensity of the anger roiling the party is at a historic level, suggesting a breach between congressional Democrats and ...

The Tea Party was born toward the end of the first full month of Obama’s first term. On Feb. 19, 2009, a CNBC editor, Rick ...

But it seems pretty clear from the vote tally that Tea Party–style "ideological purity has lost its power," says Jonathan Weisman in The New York Times. "The budget process that is culminating ...

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