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Tea Partiers to ‘storm’ Capitol Hill next week

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From Chris Good: Capitol Hill will get another taste of tea partiers later this month. The Dick-Armey-led group FreedomWorks, which has developed relationships with the tea party movement and helped organize the meeting of activists in DC, is organizing a protest of “ObamaCare 2.0” at the House office buildings March 16, according to the event’s page at the FreedomWorks website. The rally is scheduled to last from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with protesters meeting at the Cannon building and…

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Marco Rubio: Belle of the CPAC Ball

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Conservatives from across the nation will get their first in-the-flesh look at Marco Rubio Thursday as he delivers the keynote address before the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. Click back here for coverage and updates: Marco Rubio speech at CPAC conference brings conservatives to their feet: Marco Rubio, the 38-year-old son of Cuban immigrants and candidate for an open Senate seat in Florida, electrified thousands of conservatives Thursday morning with an impassioned defense of American exceptionalism. Beth Reinhard: Is…

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Mucho gracias: more than 20,000 readers visit Saint Petersblog on Saturday for coverage of Glenn Beck’s tour of Florida

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First, let me say this: there are many, many blogs and websites that are important than mine and receive much more traffic that Saint Petersblog. But this blog has come a long way in one year. Last November, I could count the number of unique daily visitors on my hands and toes. Over the course of the year, as the St. Petersburg Municipal Elections heated-up, the number of visitors to Saint Petersblog increased day by day, building to a crescendo…

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My 1,000th post: I will be Live Tweeting from Glenn Beck’s book signing in Tampa and his rally where he will reveal “The Plan”

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First of all, thank you for making this blog so worthwhile that, with this one, I will have written 1,000 posts worth of opinions, apologies, endorsements, gotchas, links, predictions, pleas for mercy, rants, screeds, etc., etc. They say the first 1,000 is always the hardest to write, just as the first million is always the most difficult to earn. So, hopefully, the next 1,000 will come sooner — and easier — than the first. Regardless, I really am grateful for…

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Marco, say it ain’t so! Rubio all but compares Barack Obama to Fidel Castro, then asks for Sarah Palin’s endorsement

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Like the proverbial sorority sister who “experimented” with kissing girls while an undergrad, I dabbled in Republican politics in my early 20s. Those were heady days: Newt Gingrich was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year, former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, among others, was infusing the GOP with compassionate conservatism and leaders like Jeb Bush towered over the political landscape. Heady days, indeed. Then the Recount happened and then W emerged and it wasn’t long before I returned to my Democratic…

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Time: 2-Min-Bio on Charlie Crist

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Time Magazine offers this 2 Min-Bio on Charlie Crist: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s May 12 announcement that he will run for Senate instead of reelection in 2010 was rare good news for the flailing GOP. The first-term governor, who is seeking the seat held by retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez, has consistently boasted approval ratings in the high 60s since taking office despite economic dark days in the Sunshine State. An adroit campaigner who addresses every citizen he meets as…

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Glenn Beck barfs on Charlie Crist

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In its bio of Charlie Crist, Time Magazine shares a Glenn Beck tweet after Crist announced his run: “Just what we need, a ‘soft, friendly’ moderate GOP member….BARF”

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