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By Jeremy W. Peters
WASHINGTON: In all its fury and unanimity, the response from the right over President Barack Obama's decision to change immigration policy without the consent of Congress was the manifestation of a major transformation inside the Tea Party.
What started five years ago as a groundswell of conservatives committed to curtailing the reach of the federal government, cutting the deficit and countering the Wall Street wing of the Republican Party has become largely an anti-immigration overhaul movement. The politicians, intellectual leaders and activists who consider themselves part of the Tea Party have redirected their energy from fiscal austerity and small government to stopping any changes that would legitimize people who are here illegally, either through granting them citizenship or legal status.
"Amnesty for Millions, Tyranny for All," declared The Tea Party Tribune, summing up the indignation among conservatives over Obama's executive action to shield up to 5 million people from deportation.
A group of sheriffs is organizing a demonstration next month at the Capitol. Activists are sending fat envelopes stuffed with articles on illegal immigration to members of Congress.
And in their most audacious plans, Tea Party groups are preparing to recruit challengers to run against high-profile Republicans they accuse of betraying them - as they did when they toppled Eric Cantor, the former House majority leader. At the top of their list of potential targets are politicians like Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a proponent of immigration overhaul. Their fantasy candidate: Sarah Palin, McCain's former running mate who now spends much of the year at her home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Two prominent conservative activists, who spoke anonymously to divulge private discussions, said leading Tea Party figures planned to reach out to Palin to see if she was interested in running against McCain.
The way they are organizing around the issue of immigration bears striking parallels to how the federal bailouts of financial institutions and the Affordable Care Act galvanized many of the same people in 2009 and 2010. The issues have shifted, but the common enemy has not: Obama.
"This is going to become the Obamacare for the 2016 cycle," said David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group. "You're going to see a constant drumbeat, a constant march.
"It will be no one thing," he added. "When you call down the thunder, sometimes it's not pretty."
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Tea Party: Shifts focus from fiscal austerity to opposing Obama's immigration overhaul
Anyone itching to sport their wackiest holiday sweater without shame has a legitimate reason to do so during Cooper-Siegel Community Library's upcoming Victorian tea and luncheon.
If you have one with flying reindeer or Frosty, now's the time to wear it, reference librarian Ann Andrews said.
The Crazy Sweater Tea and Lunch will be at noon Dec. 4 at library, 403 Fox Chapel Road.
The cost is $7 and includes lunch and scones. Participants should bring their own teacups.
Andrews this spring instituted a themed tea party every other month and found that the idea caught on quickly.
We have about four book groups going on, a knitting group and music groups. Some of the ladies are always interested in what else they can join, Andrews said. We found that this is a nice social thing, and ladies just like to get together.
This summer, the group sipped their tea while enjoying the gardens outside the library that are kept pristine by members of the Fox Chapel Garden Club. Andrews said that during lunch, the group learned trivia about author Jane Austen.
At Halloween, attendees wore crazy hats, learned tidbits about the Oct. 31 observance and shared legendary Pennsylvania ghost stories.
In December, the guest speaker is scheduled to be Laura Ainsley, assistant curator of education at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh. Ainsley will share Victorian Christmas traditions with the audience.
Some of the customs associated with that era are Christmas caroling, sending cards and decorating trees, Andrews said.
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BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France Two years after losing the lyse Palace to the Socialists, Nicolas Sarkozy is seeking to mount a historic comeback by swinging further to the political right.
In the United States, the tea party revolution may be cooling. But in Europe, Sarkozys shift is a sign of the times. He and other European conservatives have found themselves caught more than ever in a political no mans land: the territory between their traditional opponents on the left and the rising fortunes of the far right.
Their apparent answer: If you cant beat the nationalists and populists, then start to sound more like them.
The animated president of France from 2007 to 2012, Sarkozy will see his first goal post arrive this Saturday: a vote for the leadership of his center-right Union for a Popular Movement party. It comes after a campaign he has waged through town hall meetings and special appearances across France and in which the debonair 59-year-old has unveiled pledges seemingly aimed at currying favor with voters flirting with the far right.
Angry about immigration? Dont worry, he says, he may just pull France out of a treaty that allows passport- and visa-free travel between 26 nations in Europe. Dont like Frances new law legalizing gay marriage? Sarkozy is now vowing to repeal it. Not happy with the European Union? He now says he wants its powers cut in half.
In recent weeks, Sarkozy has ostensibly been campaigning only for his partys leadership. But the race has been tinted with far more ambition. At a recent rally in this wealthy Paris suburb, for instance, ubiquitous campaign posters simply dubbed him My President, suggesting what many observers see as a grand plan: to reclaim the presidency in 2017 by staging the biggest comeback in French politics since Charles de Gaulles return to power in the 1950s.
I am not here to be the chosen candidate of journalists, Sarkozy said. I am here to be carried by the French people.
By hardening his stances on immigration in particular, Sarkozy is following a trail being blazed by other European conservatives facing similar challenges from the far right including British Prime Minister David Cameron. But in France, at least, there are early signs the strategy may not be working suggesting a complicated path ahead for European conservatives.
True, Sarkozy is expected to handily win on Saturday. But that is only because his top rival for the partys ticket in 2017 the mayor of Bordeaux and former prime minister Alain Jupp is not running. Worse, opinion polls show Sarkozy is failing to connect with French voters beyond his core supporters.
Even as he sets the stage for his comeback this Saturday, one survey conducted this month by the CSA polling firm showed him with a national approval rating of only 35 percent, down from 39 percent in September. The anti-immigrant nationalists led by Marine Le Pen have never been stronger here. Yet increasingly, his decision to court supporters of her National Front seems to be backfiring by turning off more centrist voters.
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Sarkozy shifts right, but will French voters shift away?
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