House Republicans Face Tea Party Primaries

So much for being fiery outsiders

(NEWSER) - The House’s crop of enraged Tea Party freshmen hasn’t exactly been the independent firebrands they were advertised as, at least as far as their actual voting record is concerned. In more than 100 key House votes, Republican freshmen bucked their party at a rate of about 12.5%, almost identical to the 12.34% rate of their veteran colleagues, according to an analysis from Politico . They broke away en masse on only two of those 100 votes, and neither were major roll calls. More»

Here's a look at the fun activities at Tampa 912's 'Liberty' camp

(NEWSER) - Are you tired of liberally biased summer camps? Well then the Tampa 912 Project has just the thing for your kids. This Tea Party group is running a camp this summer that instills 8- to 12-year-olds with principles such as “America is good,” “I believe in God,” and “Government cannot force me to be charitable,” the St. Petersburg Times reports. How will they do this? With fun activities and games, of course. Some actual examples: More»

Obama calls White House meeting as deadline looms

(NEWSER) - The federal government is careening rapidly toward a shutdown, so Democrats and Republicans alike are scrambling to ... lob political grenades at each other. Still. A roundup of the latest:

• President Obama today invited John Boehner, Harry Reid, and other top lawmakers to the White House tomorrow morning to "urge leaders to reach final agreement,” reports the Washington Post.

Says deficit measures come before party loyalty

(NEWSER) - When it comes to the budget deficit, Sen. Rand Paul says fellow Republicans "aren't maybe yet brave enough to talk about the cuts to come.”" The new House GOP budget plan is "really not going to touch the problem," he told ABC News . While the plan would cut non-security discretionary spending by some $58 billion by the end of the fiscal year, Paul proposed a plan that would reduce spending by $500 billion. More»

And they oppose any path to legal status for illegals

(NEWSER) - Republicans are pressing President Obama to resume the large-scale workplace immigration raids that were a hallmark of the George W. Bush administration. Though deportations have soared under Obama, his administration has focused its crackdown efforts on employers who knowingly employ illegal immigrants; arrests from worksite raids for immigration-related offenses have dropped by 70%, the LA Times reports. More»