Republican Party

How GOP Obstruction Will Ruin The Republican Party

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:50:15 GMT

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
It’s obvious that the unprecedented Senate Republican obstruction of executive branch nominations is bad for the president; it’s bad for the smooth functioning of the government; and it’s bad for voters who elected a Democratic president and a solid, 55-seat Democratic majority in the Senate. I’ve argued, too, that it’s bad for the Senate. Read More... More on Barack Obama ...

Should the Republican Party actively recruit Muslims?

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:38:45 GMT

Source: www.debatepolitics.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
They're a natural match. The average Muslim doesn't like liberals, doesn't like homosexuals, believes God has a place in government and in schools, mistrusts outsiders, etc. The Republican Party has been told they only represent well-off white men- this might be where they can start to shake that bad rep. ...

Davy Carter: 'I don’t know if the Republican party in a primary is willing to elect a guy like me'

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:16:00 GMT

Source: www.arktimes.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
House Speaker Davy Carter is not running for governor, which took a significant amount of sizzle out of his speech at the Political Animals Club today (Carter himself told reporters “I had to give a different speech than I had planned”). Carter was loose and funny — he opened with a Letterman-style Top Ten Reasons I’m Not Running For Governor. Best entries: “#10 Do not want anyone to find out that I’m the ghostwriter of Nate Bell’s twitter account” and “#2 Gov. Beebe and I are secretly working with Johnny Allison, the federal government, Michael Moore, George Clooney, and the former KGB to take our conspiracy tour around the other 49 states to secretly implement Obamacare under this clever and disguised name of the ‘private option.’” Carter has improved as a public speaker pretty dramatically over the course of the last five months and he would be a formidable candidate in a general election. On nearly every issue he has voted as a standard Arkansas Republican, but he has a knack for non-substantive, stylistic appeals to the center ( publicly cussing former Rep. Jon Hubbard , tussling with Sen. Bryan King , reprimanding Rep. Nate Bell , urging a focus on bread-and-butter economic issues rather than hot-button social issues ). Today's speech was no exception, with a call for "more elected officials from the middle and less from the fringe." I suspect there are a good number of center-right voters that pulled the lever for Beebe in ...

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez will headline the Ohio Republican Party's an...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:40:35 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez will headline the Ohio Republican Party's annual State Dinner on June 29, in Columbus Governor Martinez to Headline ORP State Dinner - OhioGOP www.ohiogop.org Ohio GOP Official Site ...

President Obama’s IRS and AP Scandals Could Harm the Republican Party

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:35:00 GMT

Source: www.usnews.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Republicans have to focus on the facts, not get distracted by the spin. ...

Pat Buchanan and the Last Best Hope for the Republican Party (shhhhhh, it’s pandering to racists!)

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:29:18 GMT

Source: www.actclassy.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Last week, former Nixon aide and America’s favorite defender of former Nazis Pat Buchanan took to the digital pages of ultra-conservative website World Net Daily to opine about the existential crisis currently facing the GOP: there’s way too many not-white people in this country, and most of them hate Republicans. “America’s white majority,” Pat wrote, ...

honoring David Wilmot, co-founder of the Republican Party

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:23:00 GMT

Source: grandoldpartisan.typepad.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
On this day in 1860, anti-slavery activist David Wilmot (R-PA) delivered the keynote address at the Republican National Convention that first nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. Wilmot, who wrote the GOP's 1856 national platform, was a Republican icon. In... ...

Lancaster Republican party sitting out of major races

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:12:04 GMT

Source: www.wgal.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
In Lancaster, the Republican Party is sitting out of some major races. The Lancaster City GOP says its potential candidates for mayor either aren’t ready or aren’t interested in running this year. ...

"“There is a divide within the [Republican] party,” says Samuel Thernstrom, who served on President..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:38:00 GMT

Source: www.americawakiewakie.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
“ “There is a divide within the [Republican] Party,” says Samuel Thernstrom, who served on President George W. Bush’s Council on Environmental Quality and is now a scholar of environmental policy at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. “The position that climate change is a hoax is untenable.” A concerted push has begun within the Party—in conservative think tanks and grassroots groups, and even in backroom, off-the-record conversations on Capitol Hill—to persuade Republicans to acknowledge and address climate change in their own terms. The effort will surely add heat to the deep internal conflict in the years ahead. Republicans have been struggling with an identity crisis since the 2012 presidential election. In particular, the nation’s rapid demographic changes are forcing the GOP to come to terms with the newly powerful influence of Hispanic voters and to confront the issue of immigration. For now, climate change isn’t getting anywhere close to that kind of urgent scrutiny from Republicans, at least not in public. GOP strategists say that Republican candidates hoping to win primary races, where the electorate tends to be older and more ideologically driven, are still best served to deny, ignore, or dismiss climate change. Today, a Republican candidate “wouldn’t be able to win a primary with a Jon Huntsman position on this,” says strategist Glen Bolger. The problem is, as polling data and the changing de ...

What will it take for the Republican party to reach a tipping point on climate c...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:53:33 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
What will it take for the Republican Party to reach a tipping point on climate change? A shift may be possible: the GOP and climate change www.edf.org Among the Republican faithful, the ground is shifting on climate change. ...

Head of RNC Hispanic outreach quits GOP: "It doesn’t take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today."

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:49:36 GMT

Source: current.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Head of RNC's Hispanic outreach registers as a Democrat after seeing what the Republican Party is really about. His email: "Yes, I have changed my political affiliation to the Democratic Party. It doesn’t take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today. I have wondered before about the seemingly harsh undertones about immigrants and others. Look no further; a well-known organization recently confirms the intolerance of that which seems different or strange to them." Pablo Pantoja goes on to specifically cite last week’s revelation — that an author of Heritage’s false report on the cost of the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill wrote a dissertation in which he suggested that Hispanics are at a permanent disadvantage because they have lower IQs — as the final straw in his political evolution. Oh by the way... .... Prior to assuming the role of state director, Pantoja served in the National Guard, doing multiple tours abroad in Kuwait and Iraq before returning to the states and getting involved in Republican politics. In 2010 he served as a field director in Florida during the midterm elections. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/14/2006251/rnc-director-of-hispanic-out... added by: HarukoHaruhara 15 comments ...

Shelby County Republican Party Lincoln Gala 2013

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:31:26 GMT

Source: ireport.cnn.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Copyright Credits to CNN iReporter Nicholas Pegues 2012. ...

Why I quit the Republican Party

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:35:00 GMT

Source: www.salon.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A year ago, Pablo Pantoja was the future of the Republican Party, courting fellow Latinos for the conservative cause and stumping across Florida with Ann Romney’s brother . "Hispanics in the area are going to realize the Republican Party is where they belong,” the Puerto Rico-born Iraq vet told the New York Times in April 2012 , just a week after being named the Republican National Committee’s Latino outreach director in the electorally all-important Sunshine State. "We are going to engage Hispanics and Latinos like we've never done before," Reince Priebus had told reporters that month in a conference call introducing Pantoja and his counterparts in five other battleground states. (On Election Night, Mitt Romney lost all of those states except for one, North Carolina.) Continue Reading... ...

2013.05.20@6:30 Anderson County Republican Party

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:47:18 GMT

Source: www.kevinbryant.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Anderson County Republican Party Monday, May 20th 6:30 Concord Community Church Our speaker for our May meeting will be Anderson County state senator Kevin Bryant. Senator Bryant will bring us up to date on the serious legislation passing through the SC General Assembly this year. Including Obamacare and nullification as well as legislation Senator Bryant is sponsoring. Come join us ! ...

Anti-Immigrant Movement Works to Shoot Down Rising Stars of the Republican Party

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:00:08 GMT

Source: imagine2050.newcomm.org --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Frustrated by a very public renovation of the Party to make it more inviting for conservative Latinos, the anti-immigrant movement has engaged in an all out war on Republican leadership. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), both of … Continued ...

Pa. Republican Party cries foul on Sestak fundraising

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:14:52 GMT

Source: www.delcotimes.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Pennsylvania Republican Party has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against former U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak and his fundraising committees for allegedly violating provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. ...

Video: Mark Levin Blasts Obama, The IRS & The Republican Party in Scandal on Sean Hannity

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:28:23 GMT

Source: nicedeb.wordpress.com --- Monday, May 13, 2013
Mark Levin, appearing on the Hannity Show on Fox Monday night to talk about the IRS scandal he helped break. Right out of the box, he noted that when Obama had commented on the scandal, he said, “if it’s true….” “Did he not hear his own IRS official on Friday, confess and apologize to the facts the limited amount of facts that are on table. Of course it’s true The IRS just said it’s true – . that they’ve been targeting the Tea Party and other conservative groups”, he noted. He said that the most troubling part of the scandal is the passivity and timidity of Congress. This should have been done a year ago, he said. And the reason is because the victim was the Tea Party and the Tea Party are not friends of establishment Republicans. ...

Evil Dictator Obama to Hollywood Donors: We Haven’t Quite Broken the Republican Party Yet

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:47:55 GMT

Source: www.theodoresworld.net --- Monday, May 13, 2013
Obama to Hollywood Donors: We Haven’t Quite Broken the Republican Party Yet Barack Obama held another fundraiser last night with Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake and other Hollwood elitists at Harvey Weinstein’s house. Barack Obama held a fundraiser with Hollywood leftists last night. During the high-dollar event Obama told his supporters that he hasn’t quite broken the the Republicans yet. He also blamed Rush Limbaugh for the gridlock in Washington DC. The Atlantic Wire Obama told donors like Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake (who was wearing hipster glasses), and Tommy Hilfiger that Washington gridlock is pretty much Rush Limbaugh’s fault on Monday evening at a fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein’s house in New York’s Greenwich Village. Obama admitted that his theory — that after the 2012 election, the Republican “fever” would break, and they’d decide to co-sign some of his agenda — was wrong. “My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet,” Obama said, according to the White House pool report. This is because of a certain corpulent radio host. “I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them. And as a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government.” Wild Thing's comment .................. Burn in hell Obama! Oba ...

Racism, Sexism, and the Republican Party's Benghazi Obsession

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:12:00 GMT

Source: wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com --- Monday, May 13, 2013
The Benghazi “scandal” is a political fetish for Republicans and the Right-wing media. This obsession is one more example of how fringe and extreme political ideas—what were once conspiracy theories exiled to late night AM talk radio—have become the legitimate and mainstream in contemporary Republican politics. While Republicans would like to believe that Benghazi could be Obama’s “Watergate,” recent data from Public Policy Polling suggests that the Benghazi issue is not resonating among the general public. As such, the Benghazi fixation is a niche issue that has valence only for those already immersed within the Right-wing media echo chamber and news entertainment complex. Yet, for minimal political gains, and at the risk of further marginalizing their political Party, the Republican leadership persists in its Benghazi fetish. Why? Republicans are fixated on Benghazi in an effort to recapture a sense that despite many of Obama’s successes in this area (and George W. Bush’s legendary failings) they are the de facto Party of “national security.” Benghazi is also an opportunity to preemptively target Hillary Clinton before her presumed 2016 Presidential election run. This is the political logic driving the Republican’s behavior. However it is justified, there is also an ugly lie at the heart of the Right-wing’s Benghazi fixation. Republicans would like the American people to believe that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton betrayed the ...

Why The Republican Party Will Survive Its Terrible Poll Numbers

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:45:00 GMT

Source: www.businessinsider.com --- Monday, May 13, 2013
It’s easy to mistake Congressional Republicans as being in self-destruct mode. Their approval ratings are hideously low —just 16 percent, according to Gallup . Several Republicans led by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tried to embrace Hispanics via immigration reform, only to expose sharp internal divisions within the Party about the economics and morality of amnesty for undocumented workers. One casualty of the division was Jason Richwine, who resigned his post as a Heritage Foundation analyst after it was reported that his doctoral dissertation claimed low Hispanic immigrants IQs would lead to “more underclass behavior, less social trust, and an increase in the proportion of unskilled workers in the American labor market.” House Republicans called for approving a budget this year through “regular order,” but they now balk at trying to reconcile their plan with the $975 billion in tax hikes passed by Senate Democrats. A health insurance measure touted by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., was pulled from the floor last month because Tea Party-style GOPers opposed it. And for the umpteenth time since 2010, Republicans have made the repeal of Obamacare a top priority. The situation looks clownish to many Americans. It’s a political piñata for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., who said last week, “Nothing is their agenda and never is their timetable.” But the disarray should not be interpreted as a death knell. Republ ...