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Reform...at What Cost?

Susan Bevan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moderate Republicans, Moderates, Republican-Majority-for-Choice, Abortion Rights, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Anti-Abortion, U.S. House of Representatives, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News

Like it or not, abortion is a legal medical procedure and a decision that has to be left to doctors and families. Why are women being singled out and denied coverage, even through private plans?

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RIP Compassionate Conservatism

Will Marshall | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deficit, Senate, Federal Deficit, Federal Budget Deficit, George W. Bush, Gop Health Care, Gop, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, David Walker, Health Care, Republican Party, Joseph Cao, Healthcare, Republicans, Politics News

In taking a purely obstructionist stance, the GOP has evinced scant empathy for tens of millions of fellow Americans who lack basic protection against illness or injury. So much for compassionate conservatism.

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GOP Considers 'Purity' Resolution For Candidates

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rnc Ten Principles, Gop Resolution, Gop Ten Principles, Republican Party, GOP Platform, Republican Platform, Republican Resolution, Gop Obama, Republican Purity Resolution, Gop Purity, Republican Purity Test, Gop Purity Resolution, Republicans Obama, Gop Purity Test, Politics News

Republican leaders are circulating a resolution listing 10 positions Republican candidates should support if they want party backing. Candidates, the...

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Jim DeMint Battling Senate GOP Leadership In Next Election

Politico | Manu Raju and Josh Kraushaar | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Activists, Jim Demint Gop, Jim Demint Conservatives, Republican Party, Jim Demint Right-Wing, Demint Tea Party Support, Jim Demint Republicans, Gop, Demint Rnc, Jim Demint Tea Party, Tea Party, Politics News

If you're an underdog conservative running for Congress, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) should be on your speed dial these days. A favorite of the tea part...

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Republican Identity Crisis Forces GOP Politicians To The Right

Politics Daily | Jill Lawrence | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Ideology, GOP Ideology, Right-Wing, President Obama, John Mccain Obama, Club for Growth, Rnc Strategy, GOP Conservatives, Palin Conservatives, Republican Party, Gop Obama, Gop, Republicans Obama, Tea Party, John McCain, Gop Strategy, Politics News

John McCain rails against a bipartisan global warming bill two years after sponsoring one himself? He says he's "dear friends" with Sarah Palin and en...

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Tea Parties Organizing, Training For 2010 Under The Radar

Dawn Teo | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Odom, Tea Party Protests, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, 2010 Elections, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Republican Party, Politics News

For some, Tea Parties are a reaction against a floundering Republican Party. For others, Tea Parties are a Republican Renaissance.

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Irrational Exuberance in Anti-Obama Hatred

Aaron Keyak | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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The use of swastikas, photos of dead Holocaust victims, and anti-Semitic epithets should have no place in any event or venue sponsored or promoted on either side of the partisan divide.

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When it Comes to Sarah Palin, Blame John McCain

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Conservatives, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Politics News

There is a good deal of blame to go around when it comes to Palin, and a lot of worthy targets, but it was McCain who made the decision to put her on his ticket and to give her that national platform.

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The Audacity of Dopes

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan, Charlie Gibson, Kim Kardashian, Kate Gosselin, Nicole Wallace, Katie Couric, Snl, Newt Gingrich, Tina Fey, Steve Schmidt, Republican Party, Politics News

No one did more damage to Sarah Palin than Sarah Palin. She was handed a national platform on which she could dazzle the country with her brilliance. And she winked, smirked, and crapped all over it.

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Doug Hoffman "Unconcedes" In Upstate New York Congressional Race

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has withdrawn his concession in a close special election for a U.S. House seat, and New...

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Mr. President, 'Change' Is Your 'New Frontier'

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Restoration, Bush Doctrine, John F. Kennedy, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Public Policy Polling, 1961, Kennedy, Boston, 1960, Ted Widmer, The Death of Conservatism, Democratic Party, 2012, Change, 2010, 2008, New Frontier, George W. Bush, Jfk, Republican Party, William v. Shannon, 1984, Jack Kennedy, John Winthrop, Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts, Democrats, Charles Blow, Barack Obama, Tom Jensen, The New Frontier, Ark of the Liberties, Republicans, Sam Tanenhaus, Politics News

The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.

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The Inevitable Fluke That Is Sarah Palin

William Bradley | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Oprah Winfrey, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Schmidt, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Neo-Confederate, Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, Hugh Hewitt, Charlie Crist, Mike Huckabee, Sean Hannity, Birther, Tim Pawlenty, Joe Lieberman, Manchurian Candidate, Hillary Clinton, Far Right, Tea Party, Creationism, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Chairman Mao, Katie Couric, Media News

Five minutes into yesterday's Oprah extravaganza with Sarah Palin, I messaged Steve Schmidt, John McCain's presidential campaign manager: "So how did you know Bristol was pregnant before it was announced?"

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How Sarah Palin Could Win The 2012 GOP Nomination

Politics Daily | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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If Palin can maintain, say, 35-percent support in a multi-candidate presidential field, then she is the odds-on favorite for the GOP nomination. The ...

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GOP Presidential Candidates Already Jockeying For 2012 Election

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the...

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Q&A Bill Frist: Healthcare, The GOP and Birthers

David Goodman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Gop, Birthers, Obama Birth Certificate, Republican Party, Health Care, Healthcare, Republicans, Politics News

Bill Frist is the former Republican Senate Majority Leader. He is the author of the new book: A Heart to Serve: The Passion to Bring Health, Hope, and Healing.

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Utah Becomes A Battleground In The GOP's Civil War

Los Angeles Times | Mark Barabak | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Gop Civil War, Utah, Republican Party, Robert Bennett, Politics News

Utah has emerged as an improbable battleground in the fight for the future of the GOP, as the party's veteran U.S. senator -- with nary a whiff of per...

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Misfits: Eight Politicians Who Should Just Switch Parties

Politics Daily | Jill Lawrence | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moderate Republicans, Republican Party, Dede Scozzafava Gop, Olympia Snowe Health Care, Joseph Cao Health Care, Ben Nelson Health Care, Lieberman Filibuster, Political Labels, Gop, Bart Stupak, Moderate Democrats, Political Party Loyalty, Politics News

RINOs and conservadems are cutting quite a swath these days -- making demands, frustrating their colleagues, wielding clout and even influencing elect...

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Scozzafava Maddow Interview: Purging Party Of Independent Thinkers Leads To Minority Status

Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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Last night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviewed Dede Scozzafava, the GOP congressional candidate (New York-23) who was ousted from the race by conservat...

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GOP Under Mounting Pressure From Underdogs' Senate Bids

Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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Underdogs trying to ride a wave of anti-establishment fervor are mounting challenges to the Republican Party's hand-picked Senate candidates in severa...

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Hold the Hofstadter: Why the GOP Is Winning 2010

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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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How to Properly Criticize a President 101

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Criticism, Obama Hitler, Republican Party, Obama Socialism, Barack Obama, Politics News

If you want people to be frightened of Barack Obama because you say he's like Hitler, you have to understand that people don't hate Hitler because he provided governmental health care.

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Blake Hall, Idaho GOP Leader, Quits RNC After Stalking Conviction

The Idaho Statesman | Dan Popkey | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Blake Hall, a leading figure in Idaho and national politics for 25 years, was fired Monday as a deputy prosecuting attorney in eastern Idaho and has r...

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Scozzafava Tells Her Story: 'My Name's A Verb Now'

Washington Post | Jason Horowitz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Over Halloween weekend, Dede Scozzafava morphed from a rosy-cheeked Republican mom to a political figure of speech. "My name's a verb now," she said....

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Michael Steele: Some White Republicans Are 'Scared Of Me'

David Edwards | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP Race, Racial Tensions, Michael Steele GOP, Race Relations, Republican Party, Republican Racial Tensions, Michael Steele Republican Party, Gop Race Relations, Michael Steele White Republicans, Gop Racial Tensions, Michael Steele, Gop, Michael Steele Interview, Michael Steele White Gop, Michael Steel on Race, Politics News

The following article was produced by the Raw Story and written by David Edwards. Since being elected the first African-American RNC chairman, Michae...

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One Cheer for Joseph Cao

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Party, Politics News

It's hard to fault Joseph Cao for worrying about his re-election prospects, but let's not mistake self-interest for nobility.

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