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12 hours ago ago from The In Box
PolitickerNY , the blog hosted by the New York Observer, has an interesting think piece up about the Republican Party's conundrum in the Empire State. Next year looks like the kind of year when the GOP should pick up seats across New York. Realistic contests range from the state Senate and Assembly right up through the US Senate and governor's races. But with a political mood that's fiercely anti-incumbent, the Republican bench appears ...
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12 hours ago ago from La Shawn Barber's Corner
In light of Senator Harry Reid implying that the Republican party defended slavery , I'm republishing my review of Wrong On Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past , by Bruce Bartlett: [V]irtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat. On December 5, 2002, Republican senator Trent Lott toasted 100-year-old Republican senator Strom Thurmond, a former segregationist, at a private birthday party, saying ...
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2 hours ago ago from ARRA News Service
Francis Rice, Chairman, National Black Republican Association : Confident that liberal historians have successfully re-written civil rights history, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid brazenly compared Republican health care reform opponents to supporters of slavery, ignoring the fact that the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery while the Republican Party fought to end it. Not satisfied with just playing the race card on the senate ...
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11 hours ago ago from espuelas spurs debate
The monolithic quality of the Reagan-era GOP is over. Establishment Republicans are increasingly hounded by the loony right conservatives looking for ideological purity - and willing to lose elections if makes the party more conservative. Stalin would be proud. This no way to build a election coalition to win national elections. As an example of this crack in the GOP, conservative writer Andrew Sullivan goes after Sarah ...
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Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
9 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
They scorned "any idea of moderation" and greeted with contempt any effort "to understand a question from all sides." Their primary goal was "to acquire power" by frustrating those in authority at every turn. If the President "made a reasonable speech," they "took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect." Although "professing to serve the public interest," they in fact "were seeking to win" power "for themselves." In "their ...
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3 hours ago ago from FanHouse
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Related contentMinn. state senator resigning to lead racino push
10 hours ago ago from Good News Now
ST. PAUL, Minn. -Longtime state Sen. Dick Day says he's stepping down to lead an effort to bring state-sponsored gambling to two Minnesota racetracks. The Republican from Owatonna will leave the Minnesota Senate on Jan. 8 after 19 years. He will become president of Racino Now, a group funded by horse owners to push for slot machines at Canterbury Park and Running Aces Harness Park. Day says the racinos would raise $125 million a year, ...
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6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Establishment Republicans, take notice. The Tea Party is about to steal your thunder. According to a poll by Rasmussen Reports , likely voters in the 2010 congressional elections would rather cast a ballot for a candidate bearing the Tea Party brand than one on the Republican line. In a national survey of likely voters, Rasmussen asked respondents to choose their favored political party for the congressional contests in what pollsters ...
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5 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Naftali Bendavid Harry Reid is not sorry. The Senate majority leader angered Republicans this week when he compared people opposed to Democrats health care plan with those who stood in the way of ending slavery. Asked by reporters Tuesday afternoon how he responded to Republicans demands that he apologize for those comments, the Nevada Democrat was unrepentant. At pivotal points in American history, tactics of distortion and delay ...
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