Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.
Over the last few months, a number of prominent political columnists have pointed to historian and social critic Richard Hofstadter to explain what is happening to the Republican Party. Here's why they shouldn't.
Limbaugh, Beck and Palin tap the energy and emotions of the masses and flame their biases and bigotry. The web and the media have changed the rules. The grassroots are connected like never before.
If Sean Hannity truly wants to be the "great American" he claims to be, he can start by being truthful to his listeners and by not rooting for his supposedly beloved America to fail under the current leadership.
The days of women's organizations being an appendage of the DNC must end immediately. Women have been taken for granted and speaking to one political party has led to defeat after defeat for causes important to women.
The real picture is anything but rosy for the GOP. The truly big race, in upstate New York, handed them a humiliating defeat in a solidly red district, where a Democrat hasn't won the House seat in over 100 years.
What you won't hear the spinners crowing about is the shocking punch to the gut the GOP took in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District, where a Democrat won for the first time in over 100 years.
And the main reason is because hatred/fear of gays is running neck-and-neck with hatred/fear of government for the most defining, unifying characteristic of the "modern" republican party.
One of the key components of Republican opposition to reform involves claiming there are fewer uninsured Americans than people think. So it isn't 40 million, it's more like 12 to 15 million -- as if this makes reform unnecessary.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele promised to "take this party to the streets" and God damn it, he wasn't messin' around!
By supporting a moderate bill in committee, Snowe has made the GOP, or at least part of it, relevant again; succeeding where Michael Steele, John Boehner, Joe Wilson, Rush Limbaugh and others have failed.
Of course technology is non-partisan, belonging to neither the Democratic Party nor the GOP. Yet when it comes to technology and politics -- an unpredictable, still evolving marriage -- all eyes are on the Republicans.
What the Republican National Committee debuted is slick, but it's years behind the times, hopelessly tone-deaf, and amazingly patronizing.
Orly Taitz, leader of the so-called "birther" movement, said that Sen. Snowe's vote was "textbook Kenyan" behavior. "She's putting her tribe first," Ms. Taitz said.
My mind was on other things yesterday, but then Barack Obama threw me a curve by winning the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush.
It'd be funny, were it not so tragic, to watch individuals who couldn't distinguish between the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and Green Eggs and Ham lamenting the intent of the Founders at "tea parties."
It's been the silent consensus of New York Democratic leaders for months now that Paterson needs to go. Paterson did not respond well to these critics, injecting race into the equation.
Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?
Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan
Tthe Republican Party is barreling forward to the mid-term elections without an objective. If it's a "wave" they're riding, rest assured that they have absolutely no idea where it's going to crash.
While the right conjures up the specter of government "death panels," an estimated twenty thousand Americans are dying every year because they can't afford health insurance.
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