Poll: 61 Percent Of Americans Have Unfavorable View Of GOP
The Republican Party has hit a new low. Just 34 percent of Americans in a Gallup Poll released Thursday say they have a favorable view of the party, ...
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Message To President-Elect Obama: After Heller, "Build A Bridge To Moderates" With Common Sense On Guns
Paul Helmke | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
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Earlier this week we released the results of a poll on the gun issue, taken by the prominent Penn, Schoen & Berland firm, of 1,083 confirmed Elect...
Boehner Keeps House GOP Leadership Post Despite Losses
United Press International | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
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Rep. John Boehner of Ohio has kept his post as the House Republican leader even after his caucus lost several seats in the Nov. 4 election. Boehner w...
Conservative Columnist: "Religion Is Killing The Republican Party"
Washington Post | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
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Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, who received piles of hate mail during the Presidential campaign for questioning Sarah Palin's credentials, ha...
Detroit's Day of Reckoning (with Thanks to David Halberstam)
Steve Parker | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business
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This week's bailout hearing signaled what looks like the ultimate day of reckoning for this country's once-great and world-dominating car making industry. All Americans are tired of the excuses.
Study: Republicans Stymie Sensitive Medical Research
Financial Times | Andrew Jack | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
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Important US research to reduce HIV infection may have been prevented in recent years because scientists have censored their funding requests in respo...
Free Fall
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
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The US has joined Germany and Japan in what is becoming a global recession. The era of big government is over is over. In the crisis, we are, as Richard Nixon once said, "all Keynesians now."
Delusion Profusion
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
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Years ago, I briefly dated an attractive, intelligent therapist. I thought we were two peas in a garden-variety neurotic pod until she described how she'd telephonically healed a client's tumor.
Sarah Palin Gets a TV Show!
Steven Shehori | Posted 11.18.2008 | Entertainment
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Simply put, Sarah Palin represents what we admire most in our politicians. Folksy and winking? Check. But even more impressive? She is, to coin a term, untakedownable.
GOP ''... is now more like South Africa during apartheid'
Sean Jacobs | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
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New York Times correspondent Frank Rich -- perhaps with the GOP's historic relationship with South Africa's Apartheid government in mind -- makes a pr...
Smooth Criminals: The Best-Dressed GOP Convicts (SLIDESHOW)
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.18.2008 | Style
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Every good political villain needs a look, be it Kim Jong-Il's fondness for futuristic fashion, the trademark fatigues of Fidel Castro, or the decepti...
Only One Day Left to Tell Your Senators "Lieberman Must Go!"
ZP Heller | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
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Stripping Lieberman of his committee chairmanships is not about exacting revenge. Lieberman has careened to the right on both foreign and domestic policy issues.
Sarah Palin Please Stop the Shout Outs, Shut Up and Go Find Your Purpose
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
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Palin's personal ambition is a real blind spot. She ignored her team of Governors at the Republican Governor's Association meeting last week.
The Next RNC Chair: Captain Of The GOP Titanic?
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
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The steadily growing number of prospective candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee share a collective dream: that 2008 wi...
Newt Gingrich: Sarah Palin Will Not Be The Future GOP Leader
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the frontrunner for the GOP presid...
Bobby Jindal: Something Is Wrong With The GOP
CBS News | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
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When asked about the future course of the Republican Party following their losses on Election Day - losing not only the White House but also considera...
New York Times Magazine Questions Karl Rove
New York Times | DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
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Do you see the election results as a repudiation of your politics? Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in...
Frank Rich On The Conservative Crackup: "The Cockfight Among The Losers Has Only Just Begun"
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
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ELECTION junkies in acute withdrawal need suffer no longer. Though the exciting Obama-McCain race is over, the cockfight among the losers has only jus...
The Center-Right Myth
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
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This is not a center-right country! In the last two elections Democrats picked up over fifty seats in the House, took control of the Senate and the White House. How much clearer can it be?
236.com: Six Ways The GOP Can Recover And Start Ruining The World Again
236.com | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Politico is asking their panel of pundits this question: "What's the most important first step Republicans should take on the road to recovery?" Not s...
Journalists Spin for Republicans on the New "60-Vote" Senate Regime
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media
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The "60 vote" threshold is an artificial obstructionist creation of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and the Senate Republicans.
Culture Zohn: A Post About P.O.S.T. (Post-Obama Stress Disorder)
Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
Even the Republicans I know are a bit forlorn: after spending the last year sending me funny cartoons and digs at the Dems, they have taken to complaining about Henry Paulson.
Noblesse Oblige
Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
There are two versions of this short "story." The first was sent to me by a very right wing New York man who I am sure did not write it, but just forw...
Whales, Whales and Wails
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
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When Clinton came to office, all good economic news under his leadership was assigned by right-wing ideologues to the policies of Ronald Regan, which were said to finally be coming into their own.
Support Your Local Republican
Darryle Pollack | Posted 11.13.2008 | Living
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I feel the Republicans' pain. I've been there. We all have And I remember it well. Not only the sour taste of defeat, but the desperation of despair.
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