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Hold the Hofstadter: Why the GOP Is Winning 2010

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Unemployment Rate, New Deal, 2010 Elections, The Death of Conservatism, Mike Pence, Tea Parties, Gross Domestic Product, Democrats, Barack Obama, Everett Carll Ladd, Richard Hofstadter, 2010, Unemployment, Lyndon B. Johnson, Great Society, Gdp, Lyndon Johnson, Republicans, Tea Party, Republican Party, One Year Later, Sam Tanenhaus, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

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.

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GOP Leaders Voting Against Defense Bill Because Of Hate Crime Protections

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Boehner, Mike Pence, Defense Appropriations, Boehner Pence, John Boehner Mike Pence, Hate Crimes Amendment, Boehner Pence Hate Crimes Amendment, Politics News

AP WASHINGTON — Assaulting people because of their sexual orientation would become a federal hate crime in legislation the House is set to vote ...

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20 GOP Politicians Repeat $1,761 Clean Energy Bill Lie

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Ed Markey, Waxman-Markey, Senator Murkowski, Senator Inhofe, John Boehner, Senator Wicker, Green, League of Conservation Voters, Joel Pollack, Deniers, Mike Pence, Cbs, Cynthia Lummis, Cap and Trade, Politifact, Nrcc, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Politics News, Wonk Room, Congressional Budget Office, Washington Post, Environmental Defense, John Culberson, Senator Alexander, Oregon GOP, Fred Upton, Represenative Markey, Politics, Roy Blunt, Clean Energy, Mitt Romney, Global Warming, National Republican Congressional Committee, Blaine Leutkemeyer, Politico, Value Voters Summit, Mike Bearn, Politics News
Josh Nelson

For the past few weeks Republicans have latched onto the $1,761 energy tax lie to oppose clean energy legislation.

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Eight GOP Politicians Parrot False $1,761 Talking Point on Costs of Climate Bill

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Treasury Department, Waxman-Markey, Senator Murkowski, Senator Inhofe, Fred Upton, John Boehner, Politics, Roy Blunt, Media, Mitt Romney, League of Conservation Voters, Green, Mike Pence, Cbs, Global Warming, Cap and Trade, Politifact, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Political News, Green Living, Wonk Room, Green News, Congressional Budget Office, Politico, Washington Post, Media Criticism, Environmental Defense, Value Voters Summit, Senator Alexander, Deniers, Green News
Josh Nelson

When your position is based on ignoring science to prop up polluting industries -- as is the case for many Republican politicians -- you have little choice but to cite misleading statistics to make your point.

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House GOPers: Obama Breached Decorum Before Wilson

Talking Points Memo | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Pence, Louie Gohmert, House Republicans, Steve King, Obama Speech to Congress, Joe Wilson, Politics News

An interesting new pattern has emerged from some Republicans. Both during and after yesterday's House admonishment of Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-SC) outburs...

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Mike Pence: House GOP Might Have Some Health Care Defectors

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Minority Whip, Gop, Republican Opposition, Mike Pence, Healthcare Reform, Partisanship, Politics News

At a breakfast sponsored by the American Spectator, I asked Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the House Republican Conference chairman what I thought would be...

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Fox News Teamed with Big Biz Astroturf Group to Force Out Van Jones

Adele Stan | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Resisnet, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Cap-and-Trade, Americans for Prosperity, Grassfire, Glenn Beck, Mike Pence, Rupert Murdoch, Van Jones Glenn Beck, Van Jones Resigns, Politics News
Adele Stan

The racism and red-baiting suffered by Jones at the hands of Beck and his admirers are simply key elements in a marketing strategy designed to serve Very Big Business.

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Protesters Outnumber Attendees At Ohio GOP 'Energy Summit'

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: GOP American Energy Act, John Boehner, Pat Tiberi, Ohio, Bob Latta, Mike Pence, American Energy Solutions Group, Jean Schmidt, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Over 50 protesters turned out in Ohio to heckle GOP Congressmen for their 'stone age' efforts to ignore the threat of climate change.

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Jason Linkins

Mike Pence Caught Making Up Health Care Numbers On MSNBC (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Video, Mike Pence, Carlos Watson, Media News

Yesterday, on MSNBC, Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.) went on the air with Carlos Watson to discuss the House's health care refor...

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The "Just Say NO-Bama Campaign" Part 2: Diplomacy is Neither Timid Nor an Apology

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: John McCain, Twitter, Hungary, Kimberly-Krautter, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Iranian Riots, Diplomacy, Mike Pence, Apology, Saber Rattling, Julie-Menin, Iran, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Middle East, Poland, Solidarity, Iranian Elections, Timid, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, World News
Kimberly Krautter

Iranians have not asked for U.S. or other Western support other than a desire that our media continue to report their story.

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Berman, Pelosi Undermine Obama on Iran Diplomacy

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aipac, Howard Berman, Congress, Iran, Mike Pence, Iran Election, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Robert Naiman

It's interesting to observe when some Democratic Congressional leaders say Democrats have to be "loyal" to Obama and when it's apparently OK to join Republicans in undermining him.

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GOP Uses Iran Resolution to Slam Obama, Undermine Iranian People

Adam Blickstein | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Gop, Obama, Mike Pence, Eric Cantor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Elections, Ahmadinejad, Politics News
Adam Blickstein

While they display the veneer of being on the side of the Iranian people, in the end Cantor, Pence and Rohrabacher confirmed themselves as the leading speechwriters for Iran's oppressive regime.

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Mike Pence Undermines the Iranian People

Adam Blickstein | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Mike Pence, Barack Obama, Politics News
Adam Blickstein

Pence will invariably become a talking point for the thugs and Iranian officials who are attacking the opposition and embarking on violent suppression of dissident Iranians.

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Evolution Devolution

Michael Sigman | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hardball, John McCain, Mike-Pence, Sarah Palin, Fox News, Evolution, Gurus, Republicans, Politics News
Michael Sigman

Evolution isn't something you choose to believe in, like Jesus or your Little League coach. It's a hypothesis with so much evidence to support it, we call it a "fact."

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Republican Incoherence on Climate Change

David Roberts | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Hardball, Cap and Trade, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, George Stephanopoulos, John Boehner, Climate Change, Mike Pence, Republican Party, Chris Matthews, Republicans, Green News
David Roberts

Republicans are completely a mess -- a familiar mess, trapped between their increasingly loopy base and the American mainstream. Their base is full of flat-earthers that don't believe the scientific consensus.

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Rep. Pence Caught Lying About Green Jobs Bill

Josh Nelson | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Policy, Politics, Green News, Henry Waxman, Mike Pence, Green, Cap and Trade, Global Warming, Energy, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Political News, Green News
Josh Nelson

Less than an hour after the Think Progress interview Mr. Pence appeared on MSNBC again and repeated his discredited "$3,100 energy tax" lie. Watch the incredible video below.

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Mike Pence Descends Into Gibberish After Evolution Questions From Chris Matthews (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matthews Pence, Chris Matthews Mike Pence, Chris Matthews, Mike Pence Chris Matthews, Mike Pence, Mike Pence Evolution, Politics News

The conversation started off with a rather simple question. "Do you believe in evolution, sir?" Chris Matthews asked Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), a leadi...

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Jason Linkins

Mike Pence Uses Bogus Numbers To Raise "Tax Hike" Alarm (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Video, Environmental Policy, Carbon Emissions, Barack Obama, Andrea Mitchell, Mike Pence, Politics News

Media Monitor Susan flags a segment from this afternoon's coverage on MSNBC. In it, Congressman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) appeared, holding forth with Andr...

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Ryan Grim

House Republicans Beat Up House Dems In Letter To Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Boehner, House GOP, Nancy Pelosi, Thaddeus McCotter, Mike Pence, Kevin McCarthy, Barack Obama, House Republicans, Eric Cantor, Gop Letter to Obama, Politics News

House Republicans, in advance of a meeting Thursday at the White House, sent President Obama a letter outlining the difficulties they say they've had ...

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Ryan Grim

GOP Outnumbered At Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Cuba, Right Wing News, Mother Jones, Mel Martinez, Lamar Alexander, Orrin Hatch, Sen. Johnny Isakson, Hispanic Voters, Mike Pence, Hispanics, Democrats, Politics News

It's not a good sign for the GOP when even an avowedly pro-business gathering is stocked with far more Democrats than Republicans. On Thursday mornin...

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The Dittohead Party: Why the GOP is Screwing Itself

Bob Cesca | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Rahm Emanuel, Bobby Jindal, Michael Steele, Gop, Mike Pence, Robert Gibbs, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republicans, Dittohead, Drudge, Politics News
Bob Cesca

The Democrats are going about the business of cleaning up the mess of three decades of Reaganomics, while the GOP is duct-taping themselves to the ample bosom of the most self-satirical political sideshow geek in American media history.

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Jason Linkins

What's Hot At CPAC? Questioning Obama's Citizenship

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Obama Birth Certificate, Fearmongering, Cpac, Mike Pence, Politics News

As Sam Stein reported earlier, bonkers author Jerome Corsi - credited correctly with having managed a "brief campaign stir" - has been walking around ...

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GOP's Risky New Gambit: A "Spending Freeze"

Washington Independent | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Spending Freeze, John Boehner, House GOP, Stimulus Package, Mike Pence Republican Strategy, Omnibus Spending Bill, Gop, Mike Pence, Omnibus, House Republicans, Politics News

Between to Monday's Fiscal Responsibility Summit and Tuesday's presidential address to Congress, the White House's economic message shifted to new ter...

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Republicans Say They'd Support the "Right" Stimulus Bill, But Stimulus for Them Is Only More Tax Cuts

Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meet the Press, This Week, Gallup Poll, David Gregory, Mike Pence, 2008 Election, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, John Ensign, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Steele, Republicans Stimulus, Stimulus Bill, Moody's, Congress Stimulus, U.S. Economy, Congress, Obama Stimulus, Economy, Economic Crisis, Obama Economy, Congressional Budget Office, Obama Stimulus Plan, Gop Stimulus, Economic Stimulus, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

If you look closely at what the Republicans are saying, this isn't a debate on the merits of this stimulus legislation, but rather another round of policy battles fought during last year's campaign.

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Ryan Grim

House Republicans Want Senate Colleagues To Block Stimulus

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Stimulus Plan, Barack Obama, President Obama, House GOP, Stimulus Plan, Republican Senators Stimulus Plan, Mike Pence, Politics News

House Republicans are pushing their Senate colleagues to stand unanimously against President Obama's stimulus package, as they themselves did in the l...

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