Elephants are supposed to have long memories but the Republican variety patently does not, judging by the fury over the ‘Obama deficits.’ In the GOP universe, these are the outcome of big-government spending and the only hope of fiscal restoration is to cut taxes. The Republicans appear to have forgotten that this was tried before by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, with the main effect...
Solution to the October math puzzle is here . Sarah Palin? Yes, I have my doubts. Doubts, I mean, that she'd be able to resist the temptation to "go native" once installed in D.C. Her main appeal for me in the '08 campaign was as evidence that the GOP still had a few functioning brain cells. They gave us G. H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle; they gave us Bob Dole and Jack Kemp; they gave us G. W....
district50ablog.blogspot.com And this, passed on to me from a friend. The New Fashion Rage In Police Mug Shots These are actual Police Photos…too funny. Just think about this for a second:Did you ever see anyone arrested wearing a Bush T-shirt, or for you older guys, an Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, or even Nixon, or Bob Dole [...]
I write this week from New Orleans, where I am participating in the Bipartisan Policy Center's Inaugural Political Summit, organized by Tom Daschle, Howard Baker and Bob Dole and hosted by Mary Matalin and James Carville. The conference has assembled about 20 top Democratic and Republican political strategists and operatives and has asked us to assess how we might take the poison out of partisanship...
DOWNLOADS: (76) PLAYS: (201) What are Peggy Noonan and Walter Isaacson smoking?—and Fareed Zakaria for that matter. During this 'very serious' debate on CNN's GPS, Peggy Noonan claims that President Obama is 'governing from the left' and that he's 'damaged his brand' by threatening to raise taxes. She also tries to paint the New Jersey governors' race as a twenty point drop in support for the...
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Before Sarah Palin became the embodiment of the conservative grassroots, another national candidate from a state beginning with “A” mastered 21st century Republican populism on his way to winning the 2008 Iowa caucuses. During the campaign, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the funniest Republican since the heyday of Bob Dole, would go off on little-guy [...]
Philip Rucker / Washington Post: Republican adviser faces health care's costly bite Former McCain strategist is about to lose his health insurance — If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, including health-care reform. [...] Faiz Shakir / Think Progress: Rep. Foxx: Health care reform...
For the better part of today, I have been reading reactions among the right to the news of Dede Scozzafava's withdrawl from the NY-23 race. Probably the most oft repeated commentary I have seen is that the developments of this race once again prove that, "moderate Republicans rarely succeed, and true conservatism wins every time". Scozzafava dropping out is indeed a great thing for the conservative...
I have written about John Feehery before. He is the former Bob Michel and Denny Hastert employee who had to be bumped aside by the insurgents of 1994 before the GOP could take control of Congress and then weaseled his way back into power in Hastert’s office. Then we lost power. Hmmmm . . . Feehery is the guy who gave Bob Michel and Bob Dole credit for the conservative revolution of 1994 and...
After seeing high-profile Republicans like Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin side with her Conservative Party challenger, Doug Hoffman, GOP-endorsed candidate Dede Scozzafava suspended her campaign for New York’s 23rd Congressional District. But there is still a battle to win as the more moderate endorsements switch to the Democrats. . The New York Independence Party chair indicated he’s...
William Kristol, not all that much of a rock-ribbed conservative himself, nevertheless argues that conservatives should consider themselves in high clover nowadays. For instance, the Gallup poll released Monday shows 40% of Americans call themselves conservative. That's as high as it's been in the two decades that Gallup has been asking the question. The poll also showed only 20% willing to call themselves...
After noting the new Gallup poll showing conservative self-ID at a high-water mark, the boss writes in the Washington Post : The implications of this for the Republican Party over the remaining three years of the Obama presidency are clear: The GOP is going to be pretty unapologetically conservative. There aren't going to be a lot of moderate Republican victories in intra-party skirmishes. And --...
Matt Lewis wrote a thoughtful piece about the Republican party and what the two leaders mean for the future of the party: The most often repeated template is for Republicans to select the person whose “turn” it is to run for president. That’s how the Grand Old Party opted for Richard Nixon, John McCain, Bob Dole [...]
Today on her radio program, Laura Ingraham interviewed guest Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and asked her about the ideological direction of the Republican Party. The pair discussed recent statements made by retired GOP Senate Majority Leaders Bill Frist (TN) and Bob Dole (KS) in support of some type of comprehensive health reform. Dole has called [...]
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