Tag: Republican Party
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Doctors Becoming More Liberal?
America’s physicians are becoming more liberal in response to changing working conditions.
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Is She In? Is She Out? Reading The Sarah Palin Tea Leaves
Once again, Sarah Palin has made herself the center of attention in the political world.
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Republican Field Not Weak As You Think
The GOP doesn’t have a charismatic superstar waiting in the wings. That’s okay.
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Report: Rudy Giuliani “Very Close” To Entering 2012 Race
For reasons that only he completely understands, Rudy Giuliani is keeping the Presidential speculation alive: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose presidential campaign fizzled in 2008, is leaning toward another race for the White House, according to a close associate. New York Republican Rep. Peter King, who has known Giuliani for more than 40…
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T-Paw to Announce
So reports the AP: APNewsBreak: Aide: Pawlenty running for president. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a laid-back Midwestern Republican who governed a Democratic-leaning state, is running for president and will declare his candidacy on Monday in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa, an adviser told The Associated Press. The adviser, who disclosed the plans on…
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Daniels To Decide On POTUS Run By End Of May
It looks like the GOP won’t have to wait on Mitch Daniels for much longer: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) will decide whether or not to make a 2012 presidential run by the end of the month, according an Indiana GOP strategist. The two-term governor has indicated this week that his public mulling can’t continue…
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Jon Huntsman Heads To New Hampshire
The enigmatic Jon Huntsman, who some political pundits apparently think is in a good position to make waves in the GOP race for President, is headed for his first trip to New Hampshire: Jon Huntsman Jr. sets off Thursday on his first campaign-style swing through New Hampshire, testing whether his moderate brand of politics can…
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Paul Ryan Fine With Defaulting On Debt Payments “For A Day Or Two”
House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan doesn’t seem to think that defaulting on the national debt is a big deal: Holders of US government debt would be willing to miss payments “for a day or two or three or four” if it put the US in a stronger position to pay them later on, Rep.…
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Republican Donors Funding Fight To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage In New York
Perhaps the most interesting development coming out of the ongoing legislative battle in the Empire State is the fact that Republicans are the ones donating to the cause: As gay rights advocates intensify their campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, the bulk of their money is coming from an unexpected source: a group…
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Guess Who Else Liked The Individual Mandate? Newt Gingrich
Mitt Romney isn’t the only Republican candidate for President with a health care policy problem: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) is set to defend his state’s health care law from conservative critics in a high-profile speech on Thursday. But Romney is far from being the potential 2012 Republican presidential contender with the most politically…
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Spouses and Running for the Presidency
Can one effectively run for the presidency if one’s spouse doesn’t want to be in the spotlight?
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Tea Party Leader: We’ll Accept Raising Debt Ceiling If You Reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
But, but I thought the Tea Party wasn’t concerned with social issues: For Tea Party Founding Fathers chairman William Temple, a reinstatement of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and keeping women out of combat roles would also be acceptable. Temple, who addressed the audience in his trademark colonial garb, is organzing the Tea Party Freedom Jamboree…
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Majority Of Republicans Support A Third Party
For the first time, a majority of Republicans support creation of a third political party. Does it really mean anything?
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WaPo’s Richard Cohen: Antebellum Republicans Should’ve Compromised On Slavery, Or Something
In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.
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Senate GOP Abandons Ryan Plan’s Medicare Changes
Senate Republicans appear to be sending a message to their House brethren that they aren’t going to back the Ryan Plan’s proposed changes to Medicare: A deep rift is opening wider and wider in the Republican Party over controversial proposals to cut Medicare. Senate Republicans have decided to avoid jeopardizing their chances of capturing…
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The First GOP Debate: Clash Of The Pygmies
Last night’s Presidential Debate in South Carolina was interesting, but, in the end, not very important.
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Beyond “Liberal” And “Conservative”: A New Political Typology
The Pew Center is out with a new political typology.
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Ranking The Pundits
A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.
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So Does This Mean An End To Obama Derangement Syndrome?
Will the successful action against Osama bin Laden cause people on the right to stop believing crazy things about the President? Don’t count on it.
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Negatives Up for Tea Party
Via Gallup: In U.S., Negative Views of the Tea Party Rise to New High Really, this should hardly be a surprise. The Tea Party is a faction of the Republican Party, which means that it already is unlikely to have much support in the Democratic Party (although the poll does show 10% Dem support) and…
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Rand Paul: I Want To See Donald Trump’s “Long Form Republican Registration”
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took a swipe at Donald Trump this morning during a breakfast speech in New Hampshire: CONCORD, N.H. – Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, opened a breakfast speech here Thursday at the Merrimack County Republican Committee with a new demand for proof – not of President Obama’s citizenship, but of Donald Trump’s…
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Leading From Behind: To Where?
An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.
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Why Nobody’s Running Against Obama
Why are many of the top Republicans are sitting out the race despite a seemingly vulnerable incumbent?
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Ron Paul Running Again
Libertarian icon and perennial presidential candidate Ron Paul has launched another quixotic bid for the White House. National Journal (“Ron Paul Launches Presidential Campaign“): Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, whose outspoken libertarian views and folksy style made him a cult hero during two previous presidential campaigns, will announce on Tuesday that he’s going to try a…
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63% Of Americans Say They Wouldn’t Vote For Donald Trump
The Trump for President idea isn’t very well-received among the respondents to a new USA Today/Gallup poll: WASHINGTON — Republicans may be ready for a fling with Donald Trump, but a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows they have reservations about installing him in the White House The real estate developer and reality TV star, who scores…
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Tea Party Politics At The State Level: Less Libertarian, More Authoritarian
If you look at the Tea Party’s impact on state politics, you see it really isn’t much different from the Religious Right.
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Krauthammer: Trump GOP’s Al Sharpton
Charles Krauthammer called Donald Trump the “Al Sharpton” of the GOP presidential primary contest
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Donald Trump: We Need A Health Care System Like What Canada Has
Donald Trump may be running as a supposed conservative now, but ten years ago he was sounding a lot like Barack Obama: For a few months, Trump hashed out a policy agenda. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to fill a quickie book: The America We Deserve, published in January 2000. The Trump of…
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Donald Trump: Republican Frontrunner? Or, Harbinger Of Republican Doom?
For the first time, Donald Trump is leading a poll for the GOP 2012 nomination. That’s bad news for the GOP.
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Donald Trump Threatens To Run As An Independent
As if his embrace of birtherism weren’t enough to keep him in the press, Donald Trump now says he’d probably run as an independent if the GOP doesn’t nominate him: Donald Trump will “probably” run as an independent candidate for U.S. President in 2012 if he does not receive the Republican party’s nomination, he told…
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Political Derangement Syndrome
Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.
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Thoughts on the Likely Government Shutdown
A government shutdown is not just a hypothetical in a debating contest. It will affect real people.
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Republicans Losing the Center?
Can a candidate appealing enough to the base to win the Republican nomination beat Obama?
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John Boehner Doesn’t Want A Shutdown Next Week, But The Tea Party Does
The next week promises to be a battle between John Boehner and the Tea Party over whether or not compromise is a good idea.
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American Public Sours On Tea Party Movement
A new CNN poll presents a possible dilemma for the GOP heading into 2012: (CNN) — Nearly half of all Americans have an unfavorable view of the Tea Party movement, putting it in the same company as the Democratic and Republican parties, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday…
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Political Warfare in WI
Is asking to see a professor’s e-mails a legitimate open records request or is it an attempt at silencing a critic?
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Donald Trump, Birther
From yesterday’s appearance by The Donald on The View: Why does anyone take this fool seriously? Jonathan Capehart is having none of it: P.T. Barnum is often credited with saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” And now we have Donald Trump out to prove it within the Republican Party by flashing his birther credentials…
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Donald Trump To Keynote Iowa GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner
I’m still convinced it’s all a publicity stunt, but Donald Trump sure is making it seem like he’s running for President: Republican officials say Donald Trump will address the party’s Lincoln Day dinner as part of his first foray into Iowa as a possible presidential contender. The New York billionaire and reality TV figure has…
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California Latinos Turn Their Back On The GOP
Bad news for the GOP as the fastest growing ethnic group in the most populous state continues to reject the party: A new poll out of California found little hope for Republicans among the nation’s fastest-growing electoral demographic. Latino voters across the state hold widely negative views of the Republican Party, according to the survey,…
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The Triumph Of The Neocons, And The Death Of Fiscal Conservatism
With minor exceptions, all of the potential candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 seem to have accepted the idea that defense spending, and the Bush-era interventionist foreign policy, are off the table when it comes time to talk spending cuts.
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Sarah Palin Losing Support Among Republicans
Republicans are starting to sour on Sarah Palin, meaning that they’re finally starting to catch up to the rest of the country.
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Michele Bachmann Gets The American Revolution Wrong
Well, this has got to be at least slightly embarrassing: MANCHESTER, N.H. — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s visit to the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire got off to a rocky start on Saturday morning when she misstated a key fact about the American Revolution in a speech to a group of local conservative activists…
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Another Reason Never To Trust Edited Video From James O’Keefe
Glenn Beck’s own website discovers some interesting, and ethically disturbing, editing in the latest round of video’s from “ACORN Pimp”James O’Keefe.
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You Can’t Make the Government Perfect, But You Can Make It Better
It’s institutions of government – not its size – that matter when it comes to how good a job the government does.