FreedomWorks in the News

Dick Armey: Obamacare 'Ruthless' to Patients, Elderly

Oct 08, 2009

A government-run healthcare system favored by many Democrats would be "ruthless" in its treatment of healthcare recipients, warns former House Majority Leader Dick Armey.

In a wide-ranging exclusive Newsmax interview, the Texas Republican also said Sarah Palin will prove to be a far better proponent of small-government conservatism than John McCain was in 2008.

And Armey agrees with House Minority Leader John Boehner's recent assertion to Newsmax that President Obama's appointment of many so-called "czars" constitutes a "circumvention" of the Constitution.

FreedomWorks Harnesses Growing Activism on the Right

Oct 05, 2009

WASHINGTON -- When throngs of conservative protesters descended on the capital last month, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey led the crowd in a pro-market chant. "Freedom works!" he yelled. "Freedom works!"

It wasn't just a rallying cry. It was also a plug for Mr. Armey's small-government advocacy group, FreedomWorks, which the Texas Republican hopes will emerge from a summer of political turmoil as the right's answer to such liberal activist groups as MoveOn.org.

The left aims for critics' jugular

Sep 29, 2009

Liberal allies of President Barack Obama aren’t just getting mad at conservative attacks on his agenda. They are getting even in a way calculated to hit conservatives where it counts: their pockets.

Armey: Individual Mandate Would Be a Healthcare Industry Boondoggle

Do we really want to send billions more to the health insurance industry?

Oct 02, 2009

Two hundred billion dollars in new insurance premiums per year. And $463,000,000,000 in taxpayer subsidies over the next 10 years.

Armey's Army Marches Against Obama

Former House Leader Organizes Populist Movement Against an Expanded Government

Sep 29, 2009

Richard K. Armey has been an economics professor, House leader, corporate lobbyist and a blunt-talking critic of his fellow Republicans. Now, at the vanguard of a loosely-knit band of opponents of President Obama's agenda, Armey has morphed into a role Obama himself held years ago: a grass-roots organizer.

From the raucous town hall meetings of August to the Sept. 12 protests that brought thousands of conservatives to Washington, Armey and the group he heads, FreedomWorks, have spent their summer battling Democrats on health-care reform.

Armey's unlikely encore

Sep 25, 2009

A frustrated economics professor before becoming a Gingrich lieutenant and House majority leader, Dick Armey seemed to have reinvented himself for the last time when he abruptly quit Congress in 2003 to become a lobbyist and free-market policy advocate. But there he was, the Washington insider, at the foot of the Capitol two weeks ago leading tens of thousands of protesters animated by populist rage to march against Big Government and President Barack Obama’s effort to reform health care.

Crowd Counts Are a Game Nobody Wins

Sep 23, 2009

Numbers don't lie, right?

But the problem is, there are lots of numbers out there when it comes to counting crowds at Washington demonstrations. And finding the person who isn't lying about the numbers is a perennial sport when it comes to protest politics in the nation's capital.

The organizers of a demonstration exaggerate, sometimes by the hundred thousand. The opposition dismisses the crowd, slicing it by at least a half.

Police, if they talk crowd size at all, are all over the place. And federal agencies have learned to stay far, far away from the game.

McConnell, Pence, Cantor, Praise Tea Party Protests

Sep 21, 2009

It’s hardly a surprise now when Republican leaders align themselves with the Tea Party movement, and the Value Voters Summit has been full of it. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) got closest to the spirit of the crowd — which had heard wildly diverging estimates of the 9/12 march on Washington all day.

“If the national media covers this like it covered the events last weekend,” said Pence, “the headline will be: ‘Dozens attend Value Voters Summit!’”

Conservatives use liberal playbook

Sep 18, 2009

Conservatives are coming for the Democrats on their blind side — the left.

The evidence is everywhere.

At tea parties and town halls, conservative demonstrators oppose health care reform with signs bearing the abortion-rights slogan “Keep your laws off my body” or the line “Obama lies, Grandma dies” — an echo of the “Bush lied, they died” T-shirts worn to protest the Iraq war.

Conservative activists are yelling “Nazi!” and “Big Brother!” where they used to shout “Nanny state!” and “Big Government!”

Tea Partiers Take D.C.

Sep 14, 2009

An enormous crowd of conservatives gathered Saturday in Washington, D.C., for the 9-12 Patriots’ Rally at the West Steps of the Capitol Building to protest the Obama spending spree and tell Congress, “Enough."