Posts tagged party
Sarah Palin’s Web Video: ‘Mama Grizzlies’ And ‘Pink Elephants’ Preparing to ‘Stampede’ Washington
Jul 8th
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is out with a web video Thursday, a SarahPAC production that pushes one of the conservative star’s favorite themes — giant mammals preparing to wreak havoc on Washington. The video, titled “Mama Grizzlies,” consists mostly of audio clips of a speech Palin gave to the anti-abortion rights group, Susan B. Anthony List, in which she gave birth to the mammalian metaphor
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Loading ...Cenk Uygur: Who is More Conservative: Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama?
Jul 8th
Who is more conservative – Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama? If you think that’s an absurd question, you’re not alone.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Scott Lilly: Education Reforms Will Miss the ‘Top’ Without Broader Consensus
Jul 7th
This article was first posted at AmericanProgress.org . I am sure that Jonathan Alter’s recent column in Newsweek, ” How Congress Keeps Screwing Up Education–President Obama’s school-reform programs are falling victim to the teachers’ unions ,” is as funny to the lobbyists of teacher unions as it is to me.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rand Paul: Kentucky Senate Hopeful Faces Fire From Tea Party Over Embrace Of GOP Establishment
Jul 7th
Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul is facing fire from members of the Tea Party over his decision to attend a fundraiser hosted by GOP lawmakers who voted for the 2008 Wall Street bailout. Paul made a pledge that he would not accept fundraising assistance from Republican backers of the $700 billion package, but that didn’t deter the conservative hopeful from descending upon Washington, DC last month to collect campaign cash alongside GOP lawmakers who voted in favor of the measure. Moreover, the Tea Party-backed contender and self-proclaimed fiscal conservative reportedly has plans in the works to appear at a New York City fundraiser hosted by multimillionaire Steve Forbes next week.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Eric Sapp: The Tea Party Is Mostly Pro-Choice and Pro-Gay: Knowing That Matters
Jul 7th
Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese tactician said, “Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. But if you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.” For Democrats and progressives trying to make sense of the electoral map and early outcomes of this past year, those words explain a lot. As a movement and a Party we have come a long way since the Kerry years when Democrats stood for a laundry list of policies but could not articulate a core set of principles and values that defined us
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Aimee Lee Ball: A Scripted Life
Jul 7th
This is more than you really need to know about me, but I haven’t been sleeping well lately–jet lag, the economy, the heat, the world, not to mention the various quotidian irritations of my own little life. In the wide-awake wee hours of the morning, I’ve discovered reruns of The West Wing , and it’s uncannily prescient. A charismatic, youthful, minority Democrat with a beautiful wife and two adorable children but limited experience in the U.S.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steve Rosenbaum: Who is the Walter Cronkite of this Generation?
Jul 7th
For my parents’ generation there was one man who was able to encapsulate what they thought of as Journalism.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Democrats See Benefits To ‘Revolt’ By Wall Street Donors
Jul 6th
On Tuesday morning, the Washington Post and Politico published dual stories exploring the “revolt” against Democrats by Wall Street donors angry with the party’s push for financial reform. The articles framed the phenomenon as a major problem for the party in power, with donations from the financial sector down 65 percent from two years ago. The fact that the National Republican Senatorial Committee emailed the pieces to reporters early in the morning only underscores the narrative that Wall Street’s cold shoulder could prove to be a problem for Democrats in November.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rand Paul’s Border Fence: Candidate Does Full 180, Now Supports Physical Fence
Jul 6th
Rand Paul’s Senate campaign has clarified yet again the Kentucky Republican’s position on how to stem illegal immigration, this time fully embracing a proposal he once criticized: the construction of a physical fence along the border. In an email statement to the Huffington Post, Paul’s chief spokesman also insisted that Paul does not, as he has stated previously and on his own campaign website, support building an underground electrical fence along the border
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Amy B. Dean: A Public Response to Public Sector Woes
Jul 6th
In a time of tight budgets at the state level, government should be accountable to community needs and stop subsidizing the private sector. The recent Time magazine cover story Inside the Dire Financial State of the States raises an issue that is of critical public importance
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dean Baker: Republicans: The Party of Unemployment
Jul 6th
From now until Nov.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Russ Feingold Faces Unexpectedly Tough Senate Race
Jul 6th
WASHINGTON — Add Russ Feingold to the list of Senate Democrats who find themselves in unexpectedly tough races, the latest evidence of the GOP’s success in widening the playing field that President Barack Obama’s party has to defend. The Wisconsin Democrat faces a wealthy political newcomer with early backing from tea party activists in a state that has many independent voters and is known for doing its own thing
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ron Paul Praises Embattled RNC Chief Michael Steele For ‘Leadership’ On Afghanistan
Jul 5th
The Sunday shows on this July Fourth weekend were littered with conservative figures wringing their hands over the latest, confounding comments from RNC Chairman Michael Steele, who recently called Afghanistan an un-winnable war of Obama’s choosing. But with neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Dan Senor as well as Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) all, to one extent or another, taking Steele to the mat , at least one member of the GOP was praising his boldness and clarity. Rep
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sarah Palin’s Foreign Policy Manifesto: Brought To You By Facebook
Jul 5th
Sarah Palin dropped her lengthy foreign policy manifesto on Facebook last week and we’d like to recap some of the former vice presidential candidate’s key points. Building on a speech that she gave at ” Freedom Fest ” in Norfolk, Virginia last week, Sarah Palin expressed a hawkish doctrine outlining her sharp disagreement with the Obama Administration on nine key areas of foreign policy. Palin calls for expanding the nation’s naval fleet, eliminating the current withdrawal timetable in Afghanistan, reinforcing unconditional ties with Israel, taking a stronger stance on human rights in countries like Iran and China (while stepping back from diplomacy with “some of the world’s worst regimes”), as well as embracing “American exceptionalism” and America’s position as “the dominant military superpower.” Some see Palin’s manifesto as a sign that she is trying incorporate these positions into the Tea Party platform and perhaps take the lead on foreign policy heading into the 2012 elections.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jon Fleischman Is Latest GOP Official To Criticize Afghan War
Jul 5th
In a private email provided to the Huffington Post, a vice chairman of the California Republican Party questioned the value of continuing the 9-year war in Afghanistan in light of its heavy costs to American taxpayers. Jon Fleischman, a political consultant and veteran GOP official in California, was writing in response to an op-ed calling on Michael Steele to resign as chairman of the Republican National Committee over his criticism of the war last week. “For what it is worth, I’m an officer with the CA Republican Party and I can’t figure out what we are achieving in Afghanistan, at least not for the economic cost to US Taxpayers,” Fleischman wrote on Friday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Steele’s Resignation Would Be a Catastrophe for Obama
Jul 5th
If Michael Steele did what the pack of GOP conservatives are screaming for, namely tender his resignation as Republican National Committee chair, it would be a catastrophe for President Obama and the Democrats.
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