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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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Illinois GOP Orchestrates Smear Campagin Against Muslim Civic Organization CAIR

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Fort Hood, Illinois Republicans, Muslims, Nidal Malik Hasan, Illinois Politics, Fort Hood Shootings, Republicans, Chicago News
Naazish YarKhan

I am shocked, but should I really be? Yesterday the Illinois GOP issued a press release baselessly accusing a respected Islamic civil rights organization of being anti-Semitic.

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Republicans File Constitutional Amendment Limiting Bills to 5 Pages

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jim Inhofe, John Boehner, Jim Demint, Republicans, Conservatives, Global Warming, Sarah Palin, Trees, Comedy News
Paul Abrams

The battle for the soul of the Republican Party is over. Conservatives and the moderate have come together behind a constitutional amendment that would prohibit Congress from passing any bill longer than five pages.

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Top-Down Blowback; The GOP Discovers That the Grassroots Bites Back

Rob Kall | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Top-Down-Bottom-Up, Gop, Teabaggers, Bottom-Up, Tea Party, Grassroots, Republicans, Michael Steele, Tea Party Protests, Health Care Protests, Rush Limbaugh, Conservative, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Paul Krugman, Health Care, Politics News
Rob Kall

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.

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Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight

Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, Gop, Social Justice, Communion, Catholic Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Lobbyists, Obama, American Catholics, Bishops, John Kerry, White House, Universal Health Care, Vatican, Health Care, Abortion, Church, Poverty, Public Option, Lobbying, Catholic, Democrats, House, Catholics, Religion, Senate, Catholic Church, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Christianity, Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Republicans, Politics News

Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...

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

Washington Post | Jason Horowitz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moderate, Gouverneur, Steele, New York State, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Palin, Conservative Party, Republican Party, ny23, Dede Scozzafava, Scozzafava Interview, Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin, Michael Steele, John M. Mchugh, Adirondacks, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Politics News

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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Proposals In House Would Curb 'Too Big To Fail' Banks, Firms

Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fed, Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Sec, Larry Summers, Too Big to Ail, Lobbying, Bank of America, Lobbyists, Chase, Paulson, Economy, Metlife, Regulation, JP Morgan, Obama, Democrats, Prudential, Recession, Barney Frank, House, Senate, House Financial Services Committee, Henry Paulson, White House, Treasury, Hank Paulson, Kanjorski, JP Morgan Chase, Republicans, Politics News

Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...

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The Big Confusion: "Moderates" and "Independents" Are Not the Same Thing

John Zogby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dede Scozzafava, Moderates, David Brooks, Public Opinion Polls, Independent Voters, Public Opinion, Ny-23, Democrats, David Hoffman, Republicans, Politics News
John Zogby

In a recent New York Times piece, David Brooks divided the electorate into liberals, conservatives and independents. This view mistakes a lack of party affiliation for ideological innocence.

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How Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers Are Blowing Up the GOP

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Armey, Teabaggers, Ronald Reagan, Bill Owens, Charlie Crist, Palin, Mark Schauer, Mark Kirk, Rnc, Tea Partiers, Dede Scozzafava, Tim Walberg, Gun Rights, Tea Party, Minutemen, Wayne Gilchrest, Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, Rush Limbaugh, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Ritght to Life, Barack Obama, Heather Wilson, Moderate Republicans, Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Club for Growth, Tim Pawlenty, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Pat Toomey, Joe Schwarz, Chris Chocola, Politics News
Susan J. Demas

When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.

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Obama's Choice: Jobs Now or Republicans in November

Les Leopold | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Unemployment, Wall Street Crisis, Wealth, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Republicans, Business News
Les Leopold

We face a true national emergency. More than 30 million Americans are without jobs or are working part-time because there are no full-time jobs to be found.

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The Night They Brought Old Dixie Back

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Politics, President Barack Obama, Obama Mississippi, Breaking Politics News, Obama Virginia, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Linda R. Monk, J.D.

The Republicans are resurgent, at least for now. It's going to be a hard slog in 2010 and 2012 to keep the grassroots fervor alive -- and the funding to sustain it. In Virginia, we are just plain tired.

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Breaking the Pre-Nup

Will Durst | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Election Day 2009, Political Parties, Republicans, Democratic Party, Satire, Barack Obama, Politics News
Will Durst

For liberals, Election Day '08 was the marriage of hope and opportunity. Election Day '09: not so much. More like a summons from a partner's divorce lawyer to give a deposition.

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Anonymous Democratic Strategist Claims White House Discouraged Fox News Appearances

LA Times | Peter Nicholas | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Gop, White House, Anita Dunn, Opinion, News, Obama Fox News, Pundits, Axelrod, Programming, Obama, Propaganda, Commentators, David Axelrod, Television, Sean Hannity, Tv, Fox News, Dnc, Republicans, Media News

At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presi...

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The Chamber of Commerce Party

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Small Business, Education, Bipartisanship, Democrats, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Tom Vander Ark

I had dinner with four Republicans last night. They wonder where their party went. They all feel abandoned by party politics.

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Frank Rich: White House Doesn't Seem To Understand Public's Wall Street Rage

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Larry Summers, ny23, Regulation, Obama, Teaparty, New York 23, White House, Dede Scozzafava, Finance, Gop, Paul Volcker, Wall Street, Bill Owens, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Financial Reform, Election Day 2009, H1N1 Vaccine, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Democrats, 2009 Elections, Bill Thompson, Main Street, Elections, Anger, Tim Geithner, Banks, Bonuses, Too Big to Fail, Executive Pay, Republicans, Politics News

The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many --...

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What a Difference a Year Makes: Will We Ever Have Truth in Politics?

Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Politics, Elections, Obama, Republicans, Democrats, Health Care, Politics News
Lisa Solod Warren

Arianna Huffington 's headline in HuffPo Tuesday was "Obama One Year Later: The Audacity of Winning vs The Timidity of Governing." On Wednesday's Ha...

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The GOP Health Care Plan: A Cruel Joke

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Gop, Gop Health Care, GOP Health Care Plan, Republicans, Republicans Obama Health Care, Politics News
Deepak Bhargava

Some had the audacity to hope that the Republicans would work with the President to solve health care. Now, it's clear they are putting insurance industry profits above the health of America's families.

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Mike Britt, Former Colorado GOP Chair, Payed National Republican Party For Voter Information: Report

9News | Adam Schrager | Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Dick Wadhams, Mike Britt, Josh Penry, Colorado Republican Party Bribery, Colorado GOP, George W. Bush, Republicans, Denver News

KUSA -The former executive director of the Colorado Republican Party authorized the downloading of a massive e-mail list from the Republican National ...

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One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter...Than The Alternative

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Albert Alligator, White House, President Obama, Washington, Progressive Utopia, Iraq, Obama, Mccain, Media, Campaign, Anniversary, Sarah Palin, Republican, Alligators, Bush, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Change, Dadt, Gay Rights, Clinton, Rock Star, 2008, Disillusionment, Governing, Politician, Castles in the Air, Candidate Obama, Pogo Possum, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Left, Lefties, Bill Clinton, Right, John McCain, Pogo, One Year, Democrat, Swamp, Democrats, Campaign Promises, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, Vrwc, Progressive, Chris Weigant, Change We Can Believe In, Palin, George W Bush, Afghanistan, Republicans, Doma, Partisanship, Gay Marriage, Partisan, Righties, One Year Later, Obama One Year Later, Politics News
Chris Weigant

What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.

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"Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" - Thoughts on NY-23

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Ny-23, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Earl Blumenauer, Bill Owens, Tea Party, House Republicans, Republicans, New York News
Rep. Earl Blumenauer

After the flood of last-minute attention forcing the Republican nominee out, and the loss of a seat they had held for over a century, the Republicans should be discouraged, right? Wrong.

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Remembering a Revolution

Taylor Marsh | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Israel, Barack Obama, Republicans, World News
Taylor Marsh

Thirty years ago an international drama played out that would eventually take down an American president, ushering in a conservative titan that changed the Republican party forever.

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Sam Stein

Cornyn's Primary Strategy Has "Neutered" The Moderates: Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Primaries, Primary Funds, Cornyn Elections, Cornyn Neutering Moderates, Senator John Cornyn, Moderate Gop, John Cornyn, Republicans, Politics News

Two of the Republican Party's three federal campaign committees announced on Wednesday that they would be forgoing active participation in future GOP ...

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How The East Was Lost: Tom Suozzi & Democrats Lose Long Island

B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Long Island, Nassau County, Tom Suozzi, Ed Mangano, Democratic Party, Democrats, 2009 Elections, Republican Party, Republicans, New York News
B.D. Gallof

Tom Suozzi's supposed easy ride to a third term blew out in embarrassing fashion as many voters were not seeing change or results.

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If It's Broke, Don't Fix It

Steven Weber | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Gop, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News
Steven Weber

Since all but jettisoning traditional conservative principles for an unholy fealty to opportunistic disingenuousness, Republicans have evolved into a mono-principled pitbull party in which the only defining characteristic is dumb, lethal loyalty.

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The Wrath of Suburbanites and Independents

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Barack Obama, Bob Gates, Larry Summers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Democrats, 2009 Elections, New Jersey Election, Msnbc, Cnn, Virginia, Jon Corzine, New York's 23rd District, New Jersey, Wall Street, Governors' Races, John King, Tim Geithner, Off-Year Elections, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, 2010 Midterm Elections, Angry Electorate, Voters' Rage, Virginia Election, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The election results show that no incumbent governor (or incumbent party) can escape the wrath of an electorate that continues to bleed while it watches tax dollars squandered on foreign wars and Wall Street fat cats.

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