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2009-03-13 … from President Barack Obama himself. In an interview with the New York Times on Friday, Obama was asked to respond to charges from sections of the Republican Party that he is a socialist. Obama was taken aback by the question, but laughed it off and responded with a simple, "The answer is no." Following the …
2008-10-28 … of new capital. A 37 year old former Morgan Stanley banker and White House aide, son-in-law of cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder, a funder of the Republican party and ambassador under Reagan, Warsh was nominated for his Board role at the Fed by Bush and happens to be the only board member with any capital …
2009-04-14 … he chooses to work with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, he will be accused of supporting ethnic cleansing in Kenya. Indeed, Obama’s opponents from the Republican Party tried linking Obama with the ethnic violence in Kenya during the 2008 US Presidential campaigns. Obama’s visit to Kenya in 2006 and the pictures he …
2009-03-19 … if possible, wasteful if necessary. Keynes proposed burying money in mineshafts, so that workers would be hired to dig it out. (Imagine what the GOP could do with material like that.) World War II was an effective stimulus that, economically speaking, consisted of 100 percent waste. If war hadn’t …
2008-01-14 … a Democrat, and if she isn’t, that she should be. The core problem for her, it seems, is that she recognizes that the social backwardness of the GOP makes a vote for them untenable, but she has some trouble identifying herself as one of “the left.” I guess I don’t really see why this is all that …
2007-09-25 … based grounds, and in many ways represent a divergence from the standard net roots ideology. The irony is that they are as firmly anti-Bush, anti GOP as anyone in my narrowly defined netroots. So are these differences actually illusory? In a way they are — if you were to poll your average lefty …
2008-02-24 Anonymous resources- Desperate ‘Times’? Did the NY Times set out to smear GOP frontrunner John McCain?
2006-12-27 … Ronald Reagan, I will always think of Ford as a true statesman and a great man. It is also worth noting that several of the men who now lead the Republican party owe much of their success to Gerald Ford. Donald Rumsfeld served as White House Chief of Staff, and later as Ford's Secretary of Defense. When …
2009-06-30 … his 2012 Republican presidential rankings. Mitt ranks 5th. Surprisingly, Sarah Palin is 16th. You would think there are more than enough nuts in the GOP to push her into the top 5 […] BTW: I realize I was a little harsh on Mitt in the original post. Let me amend it to say I don't believe 85 percent …
2009-06-28 … them […] But what if they're not viewed as friends? What if the liberal-wing of the party is merely a mirror-image of the Limbaugh-wing of the GOP, seeking ideological purity and dismissing the moderate middle […] All of this is over the single-payer clause we all know is the wedge the left is …
2008-10-18 … globally, and that works for Barack Obama.’ He saw no comeback for McCain as ‘voters have decided that the base of the problems they face are the Republican party, George Bush and by extension, John McCain.’ On this day Bush registered a new ratings low of 25%, one point above Nixon in 1974 just before he …
2006-11-19 … David Frum, writing in the Sunday Times 13/11/06, said: 6. a) ‘America remains a very, very conservative country’. In a blizzard of bad news the GOP lost only half the seats the Democrats lost in 1994 and the senate only just went the challengers’ way. b) And the new boys are much less liberal …
2009-06-16 … flag - now juxtaposed with the ABC logo. I would be hypocritical to not point out, however, that Fox News appears to be doing the same with the Republican Party. It may seem a bit sensational to some for me to equivocate Obama/Bush with fascism. But I let the evidence speak for itself. And the evidence tells …
2008-12-14 … sounds like “taxpayer money today for reforms that may or may not come tomorrow.” Thursday’s showdown marked an important political moment for the Republican Party. By refusing to write a blank check to Detroit, Senate Republicans have started to reclaim some credibility on fiscal policy and the role of …
2008-04-01 According to CNN…. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Karl Rove dismissed Hillary Clinton’s Michigan primary win Wednesday, telling a group of Republican party leaders that her victory showed signs of weakness. Clinton, the only major candidate to appear on the Democratic presidential primary ballot, …
2008-11-11 … unexpected challenger Patrick Muldoon is a relative new comer to statewide politics. He has however unsuccessfully run in 1996 for Congress. The Republican party’s decision on which candidate to support will be decided by a party convention in May
2009-02-26 … reporting all those years, you know. IN THE COMMENTS: I mean, after Chris Matthews admitted he uttered that infamous "Oh God", and stating that the GOP CPAC conference this week will resemble a Star Trek convention (you know, more uncool geeky white guys), what do we expect anymore. But JSU reminds …
2009-02-25 … have A Star Is Born moment, if they are capable of delivering it. Problem is, Bobby Jindal didn't deliver tonight. By choosing him, though, were the GOP signalling that Bobby Jindal, and not Sarah Palin, is the presumptive front-runner in the Republican Presidential stakes? I think so. Bobby Jindal, …
2009-06-30 THOSE GOP CONGRESSMEN ARE TRAITORS! TRAITORS! Andrew Stuttaford remembers the good old days when liberals defended the president's critics from accusations of …
2009-06-24 … Democrats of their own complaints about excessive coverage and claim a double standard. Democrats will say the real double standard is all the GOP blather about family values, which clearly means nothing to elected officials. And so on. Cross-posted at Conventional Folly
2008-11-09 … network-campaign and Sarah Palin made it IMPOSSIBLE for the Arizona Senator to win. And 46% are not a disaster for McCain. The performance of the GOP in the congressional elections was much worse. The lost (at least)* six Senators and the Democrats got an historic number of House seats. But even …
2008-07-25 … want to win elections again and regain the majority one day, they will have to listen to the voters instead of the John Micas and Don Youngs of the GOP.
2008-10-20 … Now, it isn't any secret that Colin Powell was always uncomfortable with the social conservatives that are increasingly THE base of power in the Republican party. Powell was a Republican mostly on the basis of economic and foreign policy issues, and on the latter, the W administration burned him badly, …
2009-07-08 Jeb.Bush. Jeb Bush Slams Obama, Neglects To Mention Palin As Future Leader Of The GOP Huffington Post 07/07/09 Think about the implication of those words: Jeb.Bush. Bush Doctrine II. Compassionate enhanced interrogation. A kinder, …
2009-07-01 … power than that man. How does Palin's situation pose that question any differently than every election does? Why did so many skilled veterans of the Republican Party - long regarded as the more adroit team in presidential politics - keep loyally working for her election even after they privately realized she was …
2009-07-07 … power after her surprise resignation Friday, which came just as she had been expected to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 GOP presidential run. "I said before […] You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,'" she said. Speaking in fishing waders from the …
2009-06-24 … You don't win with your hand, you make the other guy lose with his […] Many in the popular press have said this was Obama's capitulation to the Republican party, that the pressure on him to upgrade his rhetoric is his way of getting the GOP off his back […] Bollocks, to continue the British theme. Re-read …
2009-06-10 … after Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced that Sotomayor's confirmation hearings will begin July 13, months earlier than many GOP leaders had wanted. The GOP is still debating how to make that case against a nominee who, barring a disqualifying revelation, is expected to emerge …
2009-06-09 … the Senate and House Republican campaign committees, but it was Sarah Palin who stole the show. The Alaska governor's last-minute appearance at the GOP's biggest fundraiser of the year ended 24 hours of speculation that the she might skip the event. A late attempt to have her speak at the dinner …
2009-07-07 … power after her surprise resignation Friday, which came just as she had been expected to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 GOP presidential run. "I said before […] You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,'" she said. Speaking in fishing waders from the …
2007-03-03 … and yelling. The fact that there were claps at this Convention when she said this, worries me. Sure, I do not agree with a lot of what the Republican party stands for, but I am going to call someone a 'fag' or any slur or label we use to put somedown because I am shaking in my boots about them taking …
2006-11-04 … control of the Congress. Democrats have been criticized for not having a position or being too cautious when it came to being an opposition to the Republican party, and the majority of these criticisms hold a lot of weight. However, I am cautiously optimistic about the outcome of Tuesday's election for the …
2009-07-07 … power after her surprise resignation Friday, which came just as she had been expected to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 GOP presidential run. "I said before […] You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,'" she said. Speaking in fishing waders from the …
2009-07-07 … weren't attacks, they were justifiable criticisms of a self-absorbed dimwit who was in way over her head but who nonetheless managed to arouse the GOP mob […] 2) Fred Barnes -- Kristol's pal at TWS and an unabashed partisan (and Palin booster). For Barnes, who can't seem to keep it in his …
2009-07-06 … her enemies: She should have said no. If Sarah Palin’s political career ended last Friday, 10 tumultuous months after she was introduced as the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, those five words will be its epitaph. Had she refused John McCain, Palin would still be a popular female governor in a …
2009-07-04 … sour, and she got into an ugly squabble over federal stimulus funds. It's much more enjoyable to travel the country waving to adoring crowds of GOP activists. So Palin decided to chuck her office for the limelight. She can now tour the country as the only superstar in a party that desperately …
2009-07-08 … contender for the presidency in 2012. All of this amounts to a portrait of a leaderless party going to shambles. Indeed, it may take a while for the Republican party to regain its footing and find its relevance in the era of "Obamunism." With that being said, the race for 2012 is already starting to shake out. …
2009-04-29 … of chermin de fer in the film Thunderball is a pretty good summary of today's political defection. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Spector has left the Republican party and is now caucusing with the Democrats. If Specter's official statement is credible, he feels that the party has moved too far to the right and …
2009-04-29 … Is this different from Mussolini's "syndicates" where the corporation and the goverenment were inseparable from each other? In spite of the Republican party's flaws, at least they pay lip-service to the idea of free markets and letting economics, not an interventionist government, decides who wins and …
2009-03-18 … foxy daughter) and making snide comments about her weight. And it's all because Meghan McCain speaks the truth about the problems facing the Republican party. How dare somebody point out that Republicans have lost touch with younger voters, and failed to make the case that limited government can benefit …
2009-02-04 … than the current package. The worst course of action isn’t inaction; rather, the wrong action may be far worse. As it currently stands, the Republican party is weaker now than at any other time in my life. There isn’t even a standard-bearer, as Mitch McConnell and John Boehner try to rally opposition in …
2008-07-11 … an expression of German-American friendship. Another socialist party politician has gone even further and accused Merkel of being in league with the Republican Party. Democrats, for their part, have no objection to Obama’s speech. And no wonder: Having Obama appear before an enthusiastic Berlin crowd will boost …
2009-06-16 … on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime. Respectfully, Ken McKay Republican National Committee Chief of …
2009-06-16 … Lead Story Sen. Coburn: Our watchdog By Michelle Malkin […] June 16, 2009 09:42 AM Wrecovery.gov! It’s a good thing the White House can’t fire GOP Sen. Tom Coburn the way it fires inspectors general for blowing the whistle on waste. He’s doing the job no one else in the administration is …
2009-06-16 … agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming. The GOP requested time to present their health care plan — rebuffed by ABC. The Republicans are also saying that this is little more than a White House …
2009-06-16 … on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime. Respectfully, Ken McKay Republican National Committee Chief of …
2009-06-22 … since the party and federal government are led by a black president and black voters are closely aligned with the Democratic party. "The Republican Party needed to do it," Swain said. "It would have shed that racist scab on the party." It's that last bit that is truly bizarre: the pedigree of the …
2009-07-04 … Transportation to use these means to get some. So there is a vicious double circle of irony here, that as states and localities cut taxes during the GOP years, under the flawed assumption that lower taxes means higher revenues, the states and municipalities also cut back on the funding needed by …
2009-07-04 … the top Republican on the powerful finance committee. Grassley — and, to be sure, other Republicans — remember Obama’s scathing criticism of their GOP presidential nominee. “Since the president denigrated John McCain’s effort to move in this direction during the campaign, it’s going to take, in …
2009-03-16 … Strategies, or Canvas. The group is funded in part by the International Republican Institute, which many describe as the international arm of the GOP, and Washington-based Freedom House, which receives most of its funding from the U.S. government” (12) and is interlocked with the CIA. (13) The …
2008-10-13 … candidate, Alexander Milinkevich, lost badly, an outcome Washington attributed to vote fraud. But even Western newspapers and polls paid for by the Republican Party’s international arm, the IRI, acknowledged that Lukashenko would win the vote handily and that the opposition’s support was in the single digits. …
2008-09-04 … Saakashvili. Gogiberidze’s salary is paid by the Soros-linked Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, funded by the Republican Party arm of the US Congress’s National Endowment for Democracy, headed by John McCain, a friend of Saakashvili. Freedom House, a US ruling class …
2008-11-14 … in the Thursday to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in next month's runoff, warning that Democrats will increase taxes and cut defense spending and the GOP needs to strengthen its ranks.Chambliss failed for to cross the 50 percent threshold and faces a Dec. 2 rematch with Democrat Jim Martin. Georgia's …
2008-10-19 … running mate sarah palin, a backhanded compliment saying joe the plumber has done a better job of laying out the republican platform than the republican party. the so-called joe factor. should not be overlooked. that mccain has been able to attach a visual image to barack obama’s taxation proposal has …
2008-08-18 … (i.e. the old New Republic crowd) – and probably more importantly, by the Eastern European émigré lobbies that had clout both with the GOP and with the hawkish “Scoop Jackson” wing of the Democratic Party. And these passionate interest groups did what passionate interest groups usually …
2009-02-15 … and things have come to a head. The “republican” agenda, starting with Nixon (not Eisenhower), has been to give more power to the plutocracy. The Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln anymore. To a great extent, the Secession War was a war of the industrialized north plutocracy against the much less …
2009-06-03 … suspects escaping from U.S. high-security prisons. Yet again, more Republicans express concern than Democrats. Still, the figures indicate that the GOP-fueled fear may be resonating. Leading the charge by Republicans against Obama's policies is Cheney, who the poll shows may be benefiting from his …
2007-03-03 … he was perceived long ago as a Republican who leaned more to the middle, and therefore appealed to moderates. And that position in the Republican Party has been taken over by a younger, fresher face: that of Rudy Giuliani. The two have something in common that most of the other candidates lack: the …
2008-06-17 … Up against him is the eccentric, if not slightly schizophrenic, candidate McCain. Who has gone from being seen as a liberal voice within the Republican Party, as well as a possible running mate for Kerry in 2004, to a hard-line Republican. He supports the Bush tax cuts, which he once criticized, he has …
2008-03-14 … quite an exceptional character in Presidential Candidate terms, beyond the bland and depressing accolade of being the oldest person to receive the GOP nomination, he is less conservative then the incumbent Republican administration, and his support eclectic. His main backing is Liberal Republican …
2009-06-27 … not the brand new 300-page amendment. No one in the U.S. House actually owned a copy of this amendment during the proceedings. John Boehner, the GOP minority leader, is close to an exception and we will discuss some of his findings below. The supporters have uniformly been delusional imbeciles, …
2009-01-17 … House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The dinner at the Will home may have been part of Mr. Obama's effort to obtain GOP support for his stimulus plan, from which he has much more to gain than Republicans do. If it works, Mr. Obama will get all the credit. If it …
2009-07-02 … discovered enough to win. This was the model for the Franken team. Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the …
… unclear under what circumstances this provision would apply, but we want to make sure that you all are aware of whats going on in the SFC! The GOP gets a lot of mileage out of the argument that people shouldn't be forced to indirectly finance a medical procedure that they consider immoral. …
2008-09-08 … loud complaints about Olbermann’s anchor role at the Democratic and Republican conventions. Olbermann, who regularly assails President Bush and GOP nominee John McCain on his “Countdown” program, was effusive in praising the acceptance speech of Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He drew flak …
2008-11-07 Feeling gleeful to see the GOP busy counting their spoons… and frocks.
2009-07-08 … pass on a voice vote. Rep. Peter King, who cut a video calling Jacko a "pervert" and "child molester," is sure to object, and he'll get a cascade of GOP seconds calling for a roll call. And that's a headache for Nancy Pelosi & Co., who would like to avoid having to go on the record spending …
2009-07-02 … don't know if TARP is going to be making any money, so taking the dividend payments going back to Treasury is pretty questionable," says one House GOP aide. Indeed, in its June report, the GAO revealed that 17 troubled institutions have not paid their dividends, much less repaid the TARP money …
2008-11-17 There is a serious leadership vacuum on the Right. The GOP has lost the Presidency and now has even weaker presences in the two houses of Congress and over the next two years, at least, they will have an …
2008-11-13 … start... Going forward the Republicans appear to be in a very tough spot. The central strategic electoral and political organizing principle of the GOP for the past four decades has been the Southern Strategy. For a long time it succeeded brilliantly. They have largely continued to execute, but the …
2008-10-31 … enough to be considered tossups now (I don't actually think that Obama will win more than one of these, at best, but it's tenuous enough that the GOP has started running ads in Montana--when was the last time they had to do that!?) So mostly it's a matter of the size of victory, which will mean a …
2005-08-27 Ruffini Straw Poll The results of the Ruffini GOP straw poll are out. He had a list of a good 15 or so potential candidates, and then a second vote that included four fantasy candidates or the …
2009-07-08 … and pro-settlement nationalists to be embarrassing and distasteful. He wants the Likud to be portrayed as analogous to the blue-blood, pre-Reagan Republican Party in the United States. It matters not that Likud's platform is much closer to the Democratic Party on far too many domestic issues. 5) Party …
2008-04-03 A landslide victory over GOP presidential nominee John McCain and Republican congressional candidates is essential to “realign the political balance of forces and set the stage …
2008-03-17 … said he would not move away from his beliefs, which tend to run anti–abortion and anti–big government, just to win more votes. Although he said the Republican Party has compromised itself in recent years by moving away from its platform, voting–in a Democrat for either the House or the presidency would make …
2006-11-10 They just don't get it' is why Republicans lost Dobson, Bauer, Minnery, Perkins say GOP ignored voters' values The so-called "values voters" who handed both houses of Congress and the White House to Republicans in 2000 and 2004 were at …
2006-11-02 "This is the classic GOP playbook," Kerry said. "I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to …
2009-01-30 Bite my hyperpartisan ass. Oh noes! Obama is getting shit done and the GOP doesn’t want to be part of the solution — obviously Obama should do whatever is necessary to appease the party most responsible for putting us in …
2009-01-29 … news programming directors are encouraging such a stimulating (snerk) debate as the president attempts to unshit the bed that (too many years) of GOP rule and freemarket orthodoxy has left soiled beyond recognition. As Digby put it, “If I didn’t follow politics closely, I would think these people …
2009-01-26 … by them“–in mind as the new administration ties itself in knots trying to untangle the legal and moral mess left behind by the previous–and, as GOP leaders like John Boehner continue to peddle the Club Gitmo myth, also remember Shephard’s stark recounting of Guantanamo’s true legacy. Recommend …
2008-10-29 … War II. John Kennedy defeated Nixon with only 0.1 percent of the vote, and Bill Clinton outpaced George Bush Sr with 5.3 percent in 1992. Even the Republican Party’s “big guns” do not believe in Mr McCain’s victory. Colin Powell, former chief of staff and Secretary of State, publicly endorsed Mr Obama several …
2008-10-13 … an honest answer, though. But, it is worth pointing out that all the participants in the soon-to-be-over presidential race, including the Republican Party’s Ms Palin, manage to make hundreds of speeches without mentioning the most-important Bush doctrine. Senators McCain and Obama are, naturally, …
2009-02-16 … as extremely dangerous and in the most forceful terms any of the “smart enforcement” and other militaristic language and policy used by Napolitano, GOP & Dems and some “immigrant rights advocates.” Without a powerful pushback against these powerful interests who claim to be “liberal” and …
2009-06-08 … 45% now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues, while 39% trust Democrats more. This is the first time in over two years of polling that the GOP has held the advantage on this issue […] Voters not affiliated with either party now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues by a two-to-one …
2008-11-06 … and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let’s remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity. Those are values that we all share. …
2008-09-05 Well, now that the set is set for the final two months countdown for the much-awaited US Presidential Elections. Now, both Republicans and Democrats ready with their Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates, the stage is set for the ultimate battle. Earlier last week, Obama accepted …
2009-03-01 … of a president just elected in a landslide. Limbaugh takes us right back to the 1980s and 1990s – the old red-blue paradigm that has led to massive GOP losses. But Obama has reframed his opponents as the vested interests resisting reform. Who do you think will win on that battlefield? And Steve …
2009-02-28 … what the Republicans run on (besides God and guns). Ron Beasley suggests that might be pointless now; If you are a middle class American the Republican Party has been taking you for a really unpleasant ride for the last 29 years. The American people started getting it in 2006 and had pretty well figured …
2009-02-26 … noted liberal offended. Paul Krugman came to this conclusion: The intellectual incoherence is stunning. Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead. …
2009-02-25 … way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians,” said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who gave the Republican Party’s official response. The massive economic stimulus bill recently enacted by Obama and congressional Democrats, Jindal said, will expand the …
2009-02-22 … skipped the event to attend a governors’ conference in Washington, and they didn’t invite him anyway. Finnegan explains: To be sure, none of the GOP lawmakers who demanded that the state close its $42-billion shortfall without raising taxes detailed the doomsday cuts that approach would entail, …
2009-02-20 … realignment, along with the gerrymandered creation of safe districts, has given us – on Capitol Hill, at least – an almost uniformly rightist GOP and a somewhat less uniformly progressive array of Democrats. And Hertzberg on his blog says that “the problem is, too many Americans have …
2007-03-11 Morning Coffee Videocast: The Five Factions of the Republican Party: AND why no honest policy can keep all five of them on board and win elections in America today...
2009-07-06 … and even cross-post at RH Reality Check — while Sarah Palin is endlessly ridiculed and reviled for having the same beliefs. Notice, too, that the Republican Party (and even the Democratic Party) is full of other “pro-life” politicians, none of whom have ever been crucified and slandered Palin-style. Speaking …
2009-07-05 … election with the party’s percentage of seats won in the most recent House of Representatives election. It begins with the formation of the modern Republican party and continues to the present day. Senate seats are ignored for two reasons: (1) Senators were not elected by popular vote until the early 1900s (the …
2006-07-30 … the Lone Star State. It seemed, as elsewhere in the South, that the right wing get out the vote machine was going to make Texas a shoo-in for the GOP. Johnson, Rayburn and Lloyd Bentsen are long gone, and the Democrats have not won a state-wide office since 1994. Their nominee this time (a …
2009-06-29 … son, and he fielded questions about Sanford’s admitted infidelity with difficulty on NBC’s Meet the Press. In a contrite moment, he called the GOP a party of sinners — apparently referring to his own religious convictions, because he added that the same was true of ‘every other group in …
2009-05-21 … name?… Democrats have to ensure that in trying to defeat McAuliffe, they don’t also run down the major rhetorical advantage they’ve had over the GOP in the last few years.” First Attack Ad on TV Yesterday afternoon, Brian Moran’s campaign launched its first television ad. However, instead of …
2008-12-06 … urged through the organization known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection with the reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party. By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the …
2009-06-18 … industry and its Democrat cronies. And a chilling effect has undoubtedly taken hold in every other inspector general’s office in Washington. GOP Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is pressing Obama for more details. Tough questions need to be asked of First Lady Michelle Obama, who has “taken the …
2009-07-08 I made an off-hand comment in a previous thread that the only thing standing between Obama and certain defeat in the next election is the Republican party, but look at Ohio. Obama's popularity has seriously diminished, 13 points in two months according to Quinnipiac, and that despite the non-stop …
2008-11-07 … Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is talking to Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman about the possibility of Lieberman caucusing with the GOP. Lieberman’s affiliation with Democrats is up in the air. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, angered by Lieberman’s support of Republican …
2009-06-08 … Message "If the government owns 60% of GM and is borrowing money like crazy from China...who really owns GM?" It's a very good question. She and the GOP have figured out the open door to walk through. Attack government borrowing and point out that it comes at the cost of giving increasing policy …
2009-06-30 … it must also be said with affable good humour. My irritation with Sandel was quickly overwhelmed by my irritation with a questioner from the Republican Party. He started by saying ‘we Republicans’ as if all members of the Republican Party thought the same way. Last time I checked it was a mixture of …
2009-07-01 … back the tears. Oliphant is a party-line leftist who loathes both America and Christianity. In a 1993 cartoon, he had a frightened elephant labeled GOP being dragged by rodents into a building with an electric Cross that read "Religious Right." Oliphant chose interesting imagery for conservative …
2004-07-27 … and historically nonpartisan Common Cause assert that Fox News' reports are "deliberately and consistently distorted and twisted to promote the Republican Party of the U.S. and an extreme right-wing viewpoint." Alleging consumer fraud, the complaint calls for the FTC to order Fox News, consistently the …
2009-05-04 … and incivility that [moderator Jim Lehrer had referred to in a question]. I think it's an extremely valuable service to have a voice within the Republican Party who says we ought to be one nation. We ought to cross all of the racial and ethnic and cultural barriers. I think that is a very important message …
2009-01-24 … an Oprah-like punch for the former Razorback governor. However, Huckabee’s rhetorical debate skill established him as a formidable player in the Republican Party in 2008 and beyond. Third Place: Rick Warren. Warren did the best job of any debate moderator. Although his Saddleback Civil Forum was not a formal …
2008-10-26 … as the candidate herself has described it in speeches and interviews, lies largely in her persona. At her acceptance of the VP nomination at the GOP convention, she self-identified as a “hockey mom,” a regular gal from a small town whom voters could trust to clean up corruption and big spending …
2009-06-27 … republican" for the rise and advent of Ronald Reagan that occurred in 1976? Perhaps. Revenge and envy are a path to the dark side and I'm afraid the Republican Party is still suffering from internecine fighting that has not spent itself in spite of the fall of prominent moderate Republicans such as Specter …
2008-08-31 … I swear I could hear Democrats and leftists screaming in sheer panic and anger when it became apparent that she would be the shieldmaiden of the Republican Party. Vengeance is a dish best served cold, icy Alaskan cold, that is! Oh, the pain and agony of the Democrats. Immediately they charged ahead with …
2009-06-29 … Benjamin Netanhyahu that Palestinian leaders must recognize Israel’s right to exist as part of a Middle Eastern peace agreement. Maybe if the Republican party did a better job in tying Barack Obama to his policies (and those of his Demcoratic Congress), people would realize the disconnect between who Obama …
2009-01-20 … once the crowd calmed down. “This is objectively the finest group of people ever to serve our country,” he said. “Not to serve me, not to serve the Republican Party, but the United States of America.” “I am glad we made this journey,” he went on. Then he engaged in a little reminiscence. “Remember the time in …
2009-07-03 A GOP Presidential contender for 2012 hadn't melted down yet this week, so I figure since it's Friday, there's still time. And sure enough-- I'm reading …
2009-07-01 … a week before the election, but it would have taken something of that magnitude to shift the poltical landscape last year enough to produce a GOP win.) In that framework, it is worth taking a look back to last year's epic primary battle betwen Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. There is no …
2009-06-27 … rose by 1.6 per cent in May, it increased by just 0.2 per cent without the stimulus benefits. Pity the poor conservatives. To a member, the house GOP voted against the stimulus and no Senator who is presently a Republican and comes from a state west of Maine voted for it. So it is clearly a …
2009-06-18 … Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) resigned his leadership position as Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee (the number four spot in the house GOP leadership) but declined to resign from the Senate. As a matter of fact, I will say that I support his decision not to resign. That's because it is …
2009-06-17 … they could send to the Governor (and in the process, there were several Republicans who crossed party lines in the house to vote against it,) the GOP leadership haven't sent the budget bills to her yet because she said she will veto it. So they are holding it back, presumably so if she vetoes it …
2009-06-08 … common usage (though Newt seems to want to change that) it is more specific to the extreme right. Now, I can understand how Newt recognizes that the Republican Party's base of old, white conservative fundamentalists is declining and he needs to reach out beyond the party's collapsing tent and bring some new …
2009-05-23 Much has been written about how no one seems to be calling the shots at the GOP. Michael Steele, whose job it is supposed to be, has in his short tenure as chair of the RNC had to backtrack at least twice, once having to …
2009-07-08 … standards of discourse in an attempt to escape the judicial fate that befell the Austrian “belittler” of Muslims. It’s a reminder that we, like Republican Party in the USA, must be purer than pure. Nowhere in the West can prominent conservative risk the slightest impropriety without expecting a …
2008-10-31 … 17 points, New Hampshire by 18, behind among white males in Florida, and projected South Carolina and Colorado too close to call. It looked like the GOP would be wiped out. Bob Shrum famously became the first to congratulate Sen. John Kerry by addressing him as "President Kerry." Commentators let the …
2009-07-07 NRO's David Kahane plays Devil's Advocate in what I think is the best political opinion piece ever about the current state of Republican Party politics. "Stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party, because it’s much more than that. We’re not just the party of slavery, …
2008-11-15 … the American people and presenting an alternative to the economic ideas of Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Rangel […] More generally, the Republican Party needs a prominent figure who can discuss the full range of economic issues -- growth, the dollar, global trade and monetary policy included." More …
2008-08-16 … their rates during 2007." More […] The Club for Growth […] the South Carolina GOP convention in May, in which [Gov. Mark Sanford] out why the Republican Party has found itself in the minority in Washington. In it, he says: 'The …
2008-09-04 "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities […] GOP Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, in her acceptance speech Ms. Palin, I've done my best to refrain from extensively commenting on your …
2008-09-01 … but it would not have "finished the job that Katrina started […] As far as the political implications go: Had landfall occurred in NOLA, the GOP would have been in a far more difficult position than what they want you to believe. A successful effort in protecting the region would receive …
2009-02-09 GOP The Only Ones With The Guts To Fight For Americans The stimulus package is a hodge podge of pet projects. They made it into rocket science, and no …
2006-03-02 … proof) believe Muslims are incapable of ever accepting modern rules, law, and society. It is worth remembering that it is Bush II who has moved the Republican party–at least most of it–away from this view. Only really right-wing commentators like Pat Buchanan and Tony Blankley still support this xenophobic …
2009-05-29 … R. McClarey, American Catholic Secular Commentary & Analysis: California, A Failed State - Alan Aronoff, American Thinker When Democrats Derailed A GOP Latino Nominee - Byron York, Wshngtn Examiner Does Obama Believe Israel Is A Sovereign State? - Richard Baehr, American Thinker Britain's New …
2009-05-11 … obligations.Steve Connor, Climate Chaos Predicted by CO2 Study, Independent/UK, 4-30-09 Vice President Al Gore, testifying to Congress, told GOP global warming deniers that they are the victims of "the Bernie Madoffs of global warming […] They ordered the censoring and removal of the …
2009-07-05 … office in the face of some bombshell revelation scandalous enough to kill any chances she might have in 2012, we would be averaging the loss of one GOP Presidential hopeful per week over the past month.) Even in the absence of a Mark Sanford-style drama, Palin may be resigning to escape ongoing …
2008-07-27 … is not a Democrat (or a Republican) and I have to resist the temptation to think God is at least closer to the Democratic platform than that of the GOP. As a Christian, I know that the work of the church goes on regardless of who wins–but it is hard to be calm and trust in God’s providence no …
2008-11-07 … truth and in His Spirit. As well as saying Palin was not called, God said she was not equipped, and again history has embarassed her and McCain the republican party by her proven ill-equippedness and foolishness. She was a gift to Obama’s side then in helping lose the election for McCain and some will say she …
2008-11-06 … the shopping spree as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast,” and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books […] McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign and aides kept him in the dark about the details …
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