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27 Mar 2012

Karl Rove’s fight club

Karl Rove first pulled the group together to coordinate independent spending in the run-up to the 2010 midterms and it worked. The coalition including groups that hadn t always played well together has been credited with helping boost Republicans to sweeping victories across the country. But this time around, the tenuous alliance is being tested. New players are joining, heightening already intense competition for money, voter intel and, in a broad sense, control of the Republican Party. Meanwhile, some conservative groups that participated in the 2010 effort - including Americans for Prosperity and the Club for Growth - seem to be keeping their distance.
Karl Rove first pulled the group together to coordinate independent spending in the run-up to the 2010 midterms and it...
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4 Feb 2012

How to fight Indiana’s Right to Work law

On Wednesday Gov. Mitch Daniels delivered a body blow to organized labor, signing a bill making Indiana the 23rd "Right to Work" state. Daniels' law, which unions will protest during Sunday s Super Bowl in Indianapolis, poses a major test for Indiana's labor movement. To survive "Right to Work," Indiana unions will have to disregard one of the most popular arguments made recently by their supporters: that a union is a business.
On Wednesday Gov. Mitch Daniels delivered a body blow to organized labor, signing a bill making Indiana the 23rd "Right...
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22 Jan 2012

Does New Media make Primaries Obsolete

If you didn't know there was a major political event going on in South Carolina today a map of tweeting from mobile devices would not tell you. South Carolina, one of the most right wing states in the nation, has been erect as a key state in deciding the GOP nomination. If Romney loses tonight he will have to try and be the first candidate to lose the state's primary but pick up the GOP nomination.
If you didn't know there was a major political event going on in South Carolina today a map of tweeting from mobile...
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12 Jan 2012

What ‘Right to Work’ Means for Indiana’s Workers: A Pay Cut

For the past year, public employees around the country have been under attack. With collective bargaining cast as a fiscal issue, private sector workers are encouraged to vent their economic frustrations at lazy government clerks living high on the hog off others hard-earned tax dollars. "We can no longer live in a society," Scott Walker, then governor-elect of Wisconsin, argued, "where the public employees are the haves and taxpayers who foot the bills are the have-nots."
For the past year, public employees around the country have been under attack. With collective bargaining cast as a...
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28 Nov 2011

Twitter and Sam Brownback’s Fearful Authoritarians

If you think state government should bully high schoolers for exercising their right to free speech, that it has a right to poke through the medical records of women who ve had abortions, that there shouldn t be a separation between church and state, and you re A-OK with the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity s effort to wipe out just about all functions of the federal government that benefit anyone other than the obscenely rich, but you only hold those views when your party is in power, than your dream job is working as communications director for Kansas Republican governor Sam Brownback.
If you think state government should bully high schoolers for exercising their right to free speech, that it has a right...
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20 Oct 2011

Tea Party ‘founder’ Palin, Gingrich a ‘joke’

A financial blogger and ex-CEO credited with being one of the original "founders" of the Tea Party has come out against the movement, saying it has been hijacked by the very people it was protesting and is now obsessed with "guns, gays and God." In a "message" to the Tea Party Wednesday, Karl Denninger declared that he "ought to sue" anyone who uses the Tea Party name "for defamation."
A financial blogger and ex-CEO credited with being one of the original "founders" of the Tea Party has come out against...
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19 Sep 2011

Multi-Millionaire Rep. Says He Can’t Afford A Tax Hike Because He Only Has $400K A Year After Feeding Family

Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) appeared on MSNBC with Chris Jansing this morning to attack President Obama s new deficit reduction plan, which includes some tax increases on the wealthy. Taking up the typical GOP talking point, Fleming said raising taxes on wealthy "job creators" is a terrible idea that kills jobs because many of these people are small business owners who pay taxes through personal income rates.
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) appeared on MSNBC with Chris Jansing this morning to attack President Obama s new deficit...
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18 Sep 2011

Vote suppression in the US revs up

In the 1964 presidential elections, a young political operative named Bill guarded a largely African-American polling place in South Phoenix, Arizona like a bull mastiff. Bill was a legal whiz who knew the ins and outs of voting law and insisted that every obscure provision be applied, no matter what. He even made those who spoke accented English interpret parts of the constitution to prove that they understood it. The lines were long, people fought, got tired or had to go to work, and many of them left without voting. It was a notorious episode long remembered in Phoenix political circles.
In the 1964 presidential elections, a young political operative named Bill guarded a largely African-American polling...
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30 Aug 2011

The GOP War on Voting

As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008.
As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented,...
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30 Jul 2011

Priebus says RNC ‘all in’ on recalls

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Friday that the RNC is doing all it can to protect incumbent GOP state senators targeted for recall from being "hijacked" by state employee unions.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Friday that the RNC is doing all it can to protect incumbent...
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30 Jul 2011

Priebus says RNC ‘all in’ on recalls

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Friday that the RNC is doing all it can to protect incumbent GOP state senators targeted for recall from being "hijacked" by state employee unions.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Friday that the RNC is doing all it can to protect incumbent...
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22 Jul 2011

Democrats Score More Victories in Wisconsin Recalls

Voters in three Wisconsin State Senate districts went to the polls Tuesday, and the results are more good news for progressives. In a 38-point victory, Democratic State Senator Dave Hansen fought off a recall attempt - while Republicans held primaries in two other districts. But the bigger story here was turnout (compared with the Democratic primaries last week), and it's clear we have a glaring "enthusiasm gap" that has galvanized Democratic voters. Meanwhile, Republicans are so concerned about what will happen on August 9th - when six GOP state senators are subject to recall - that they have gone full speed ahead to pass a hyper-partisan gerrymandered map, while they still control the legislature.
Voters in three Wisconsin State Senate districts went to the polls Tuesday, and the results are more good news for...
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4 Jul 2011

Republicans push for investigation of Supreme Court Justice Kagan on Affordable Care Act

Michele Bachmann is one of 49 House Republicans asking the House Judiciary Committee to investigate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan s role in crafting a legal defense of President Obama s health care law, warning such work could bar her from participating in deciding legal challenges to the law when they reaches the court.
Michele Bachmann is one of 49 House Republicans asking the House Judiciary Committee to investigate Supreme Court...
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12 Jun 2011

Pawlenty $1.4 million tax cut for top 0.1%. Nothing for four in ten taxpayers.

On Wednesday, I wrote about Tim Pawlenty's absurd new tax cut proposal, saying it would cost $10.3 trillion when you include the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts. According to a new analysis, it turns out that was an underestimate. The actual cost of his tax cut plan would be roughly $11.6 trillion. And most amazingly of all:
On Wednesday, I wrote about Tim Pawlenty's absurd new tax cut proposal, saying it would cost $10.3 trillion when you...
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6 Jun 2011

DeVos, Koch, Scaife, Walton, ALEC, AFC: The Corporate Royalists and Right-Wing Groups Propelling the GOP’s Assault on the Middle Class

In January, a small group of Indiana schoolteachers encountered their governor, Mitch Daniels, in a hallway of the state capitol. They were part of an outpouring of Hoosiers who had come to Indianapolis that day to protest Daniels' almost-gleeful political attack on the pay and even the worthiness of public employees
In January, a small group of Indiana schoolteachers encountered their governor, Mitch Daniels, in a hallway of the state...
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9 May 2011

As recall looms, Wisconsin GOP attempts to ram through conservative wish list

The Wisconsin recall elections are tentatively scheduled for July 12. Faced with the potential of losing the ability to pass far-right legislation after that date, Wisconsin Republicans are looking to pass a conservative legislative wish list as quickly as they can. Story:
The Wisconsin recall elections are tentatively scheduled for July 12. Faced with the potential of losing the ability to...
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9 May 2011

Boehner tells Wall Street Republicans are willing to gut Medicare

Speaker John Boehner is more blatant even than most politicians about telegraphing which constituency matters to him most: Wall Street. While his caucus leadership can't run away from abolishing Medicare fast enough, Boehner is assuring Wall Street that it's still on the agenda.
Speaker John Boehner is more blatant even than most politicians about telegraphing which constituency matters to him...
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9 May 2011

Boehner tells Wall Street Republicans are willing to gut Medicare

Speaker John Boehner is more blatant even than most politicians about telegraphing which constituency matters to him most: Wall Street. While his caucus leadership can't run away from abolishing Medicare fast enough, Boehner is assuring Wall Street that it's still on the agenda.
Speaker John Boehner is more blatant even than most politicians about telegraphing which constituency matters to him...
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3 May 2011

GOP congressman doesn’t know why we have the oil subsidies he voted for

It's a real pattern now. Republicans voted unanimously to protect oil company subsidies earlier this year. But now that those oil companies are announcing record profits, these very same Republicans are refusing to publicly acknowledge that the reason why the subsidies are in place is because they voted for them.
It's a real pattern now. Republicans voted unanimously to protect oil company subsidies earlier this year. But now that...
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1 May 2011

Romney At Koch-Sponsored Forum: We Need To Hang Obama…Metaphorically Speaking

Mitt Romney in a forum sponsored by oil companies( AFP is funded by big oil companies including Koch Industries) tonight declares that he wants to "hang" Obama on the high oil prices from which the AFP's sponsors are raking in record profits.
Mitt Romney in a forum sponsored by oil companies( AFP is funded by big oil companies including Koch Industries) tonight...
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29 Apr 2011

WaPo factchecker: GOP lawmakers Medicare claim ‘stretched’

Take note, PolitiFact and Columbia Journalism Review. While their fact-checking focused on the semantics of the DCCC's ad saying the GOP intended to "end Medicare," with their budget plan, the Washington Post decided to actually fact check Republican claims about the plan.
Take note, PolitiFact and Columbia Journalism Review. While their fact-checking focused on the semantics of the DCCC's...
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29 Apr 2011

Ask GOP reps from devastated areas if they still back Ryan’s budget that guts FEMA, NWS

I couldn't help but notice the GOP twitterati whipping out their instant and expected responses to the storms that devastated the southern tier. From Michele Bachmann to Sarah Palin to Newt Gingrich, GOPers were falling all over themselves offering their prayers for victims of the horrific weather events.
I couldn't help but notice the GOP twitterati whipping out their instant and expected responses to the storms that...
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23 Apr 2011

Republicans Plan For 2012: Suppressing The Minority Vote

In a poll con ducted by Pew His panic Research Cen ter, stud ies found that minor ity vot ers are on the rise while white vot ers are declin ing. The Poll com pared the 2008 elec tion to 2004 and found the following
In a poll con ducted by Pew His panic Research Cen ter, stud ies found that minor ity vot ers are on the rise while...
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22 Apr 2011

GOP schizophrenia on debt ceiling

One day after being named to a presidential task force to negotiate deficit reduction, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor fired off a stark warning to Democrats that the GOP will not grant their request for a debt limit increase without major spending cuts or budget process reforms.
One day after being named to a presidential task force to negotiate deficit reduction, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor...
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21 Apr 2011

Republicans file recall petitions against three Wisconsin Dems, but trail in overall intensity

At long last, Republicans have filed recall petitions against Democratic state Senators. They made three filings in total, against Jim Holperin, Dave Hansen, and Robert Wirch. In two weeks, it's possible that Republicans will submit recall petitions against Democratic state Senator Julie Lassa as well.
At long last, Republicans have filed recall petitions against Democratic state Senators. They made three filings in...
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16 Apr 2011

And so it begins. Emergency Financial Mgr. fires entire government of Benton Harbor, MI.

As you probably know, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder recently signed legislation passed by the Republican-dominated House and Senate that gives State-appointed Emergency Financial Managers (EFMs) historically broad and sweeping powers. These new powers allow the EFM to cancel or modify contracts (including with unions) and even to fire the municipality's government
As you probably know, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder recently signed legislation passed by the Republican-dominated House...
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15 Apr 2011

Rick Santorum disowns campaign slogan when told a gay liberal poet came up with it

Long-ago Sen. Rick Santorum is running for president, despite his "Google problem," and fresh out of the gate he has already invited more mockery. His campaign website features the slogan, "Fighting to Make America America Again" (by which I think he means that America is not America when there's a Muslim in charge).
Long-ago Sen. Rick Santorum is running for president, despite his "Google problem," and fresh out of the gate he has...
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15 Apr 2011

Christie: Take the bat out on female legislator

In a news conference about pension policy Thursday, the New Jersey governor demanded the press go after one of his Democratic critics, state Sen. Loretta Weinberg. Or, as Christie put it: "Can you guys please take the bat out on her for once?"
In a news conference about pension policy Thursday, the New Jersey governor demanded the press go after one of his...
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11 Apr 2011

How a ‘win’ portends potential losses for the GOP

There are some real alarm numbers for the GOP in these numbers, even if they now appear to point to a decidedly narrow re-election for Prosser. Start with the obvious points of alarm, which nonetheless deserve to be repeated. Prosser had a thirty-point lead over Kloppenburg after the primary, which was less than two months ago. Even if you make the presumption that Kloppenburg should get the lion's share of the other votes in the primary, Prosser still had a ten-point lead that dissipated in about seven weeks. This despite the fact it is a virtual certainty that Prosser and his advocates had the money edge over Kloppenburg and her allies.
There are some real alarm numbers for the GOP in these numbers, even if they now appear to point to a decidedly narrow...
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8 Apr 2011

Waukesha County clerk served GOP caucus while Prosser oversaw it

Here s the full story on when Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, a Republican, previously worked in the Wisconsin Legislature. Nickolaus upended the tight state Supreme Court race Thursday when she announced she had failed to correctly tally thousands of votes in an unofficial report to the press. That swung the unofficial totals in the race from challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg to Justice David Prosser, who previously served as a top GOP lawmaker.
Here s the full story on when Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, a Republican, previously worked in the Wisconsin...
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6 Apr 2011

Is ALEC Leading GOP’s Charge to Suppress the Youth Vote

Nearly forty years after a constitutional amendment conferring voting rights on eighteen year-olds was passed into law, and signed by President Richard Nixon, the American Legislative Exchange Council is doing all it can to make it difficult for young people to vote.
Nearly forty years after a constitutional amendment conferring voting rights on eighteen year-olds was passed into law,...
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2 Apr 2011

GOP to propose $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts

The GOP isn't just indifferent to poor, elderly, and disabled Americans, they actively want them to suffer. What else is there to conclude?
The GOP isn't just indifferent to poor, elderly, and disabled Americans, they actively want them to suffer. What else is...
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25 Mar 2011

Indiana prosecutor told Wisconsin governor to stage ‘false flag’ operation

An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill.
An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott...
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21 Mar 2011

Girlfriend of Wisconsin Republican state Senator gets state job, 36% raise

Wisconsin Republicans, from Scott Walker on down, have repeatedly justified their move to strip collective bargaining rights for state employees by claiming that the state is broke. However, this has not stopped them from giving a state job and a 36% raise to the 26-year-old girlfriend of Wisconsin state Senator Randy Hopper.
Wisconsin Republicans, from Scott Walker on down, have repeatedly justified their move to strip collective bargaining...
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21 Mar 2011

Sarah Palin goes to Israel, snubs influential GOP group

Sarah Palin's trip to Israel -- which has been covered a bit more extensively by the press than her trip to India -- has been a fairly predictable exercise. She said hawkish things and told high-ranking members of the Likud party that they should "stop apologizing" and she'll dine with Benjamin Netanyahu and she has repeatedly announced that she's on Team Jewish People when it comes to the various disagreements in the region.
Sarah Palin's trip to Israel -- which has been covered a bit more extensively by the press than her trip to India -- has...
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16 Mar 2011

The New Robber Barons (h t Jeffrey Sachs)

"It's pretty clear there's an agenda nationwide: Republican governors backed by the Koch Brothers [and] extreme right wing money want to crush the unions," says Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs. "The public is against it, but public opinion doesn't count much in this country these days." (Editor's note: The Koch Brothers have denied our repeated requests for an interview.)
"It's pretty clear there's an agenda nationwide: Republican governors backed by the Koch Brothers [and] extreme right...
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16 Mar 2011

The New Robber Barons (h t Jeffrey Sachs)

"It's pretty clear there's an agenda nationwide: Republican governors backed by the Koch Brothers [and] extreme right wing money want to crush the unions," says Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs. "The public is against it, but public opinion doesn't count much in this country these days." (Editor's note: The Koch Brothers have denied our repeated requests for an interview.)
"It's pretty clear there's an agenda nationwide: Republican governors backed by the Koch Brothers [and] extreme right...
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16 Mar 2011

Republicans Double-Cross the Elderly

Terrified by bogus Republican claims of draconian Democratic cuts to Medicare, elderly voters propelled the GOP to an overwhelming victory last November. Voters 65 and over, the only age group to support John McCain in 2008, boosted their share of the turnout to 21% from 16% two years earlier.
Terrified by bogus Republican claims of draconian Democratic cuts to Medicare, elderly voters propelled the GOP to an...
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6 Mar 2011

National Right-Wing Spin Machine Gears Up In Wisconsin

Shadowy "issue ad" groups that do not disclose their funders as well as heavy hitter political action committees are rushing to the aid of embattled Wisconsin Senator Scott Walker, whose poll number are dropping like a rock. The list of outside big money attacking Wisconsin state workers and teachers read like a "who's who" of the Republican donor and special interest group apparatus.
Shadowy "issue ad" groups that do not disclose their funders as well as heavy hitter political action committees are...
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31 Oct 2010

The Grand Old Plot Against the Tea Party

ONE dirty little secret of the 2010 election is that it won t be a political tragedy for Democrats if a Tea Party icon like Sharron Angle or Joe Miller ends up in the United States Senate. Angle, now synonymous with racist ads sliming Hispanics, and Miller, already on record threatening a government shutdown, are fired up and ready to go as symbols of G.O.P. extremism for 2012 and beyond.
ONE dirty little secret of the 2010 election is that it won t be a political tragedy for Democrats if a Tea Party icon...
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28 Oct 2010

GOP-Linked ‘Latinos For Reform Airs Nevada Ads Urging Hispanics Not To Vote

UPDATE: Univision will not broadcast ads -- ThinkProgress reports that Spanish-language network Univision has reversed its decision to air ads by Latinos for Reform that urge Hispanic voters in Nevada not to vote.
UPDATE: Univision will not broadcast ads -- ThinkProgress reports that Spanish-language network Univision has reversed...
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3 Oct 2010

The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine ‘Â’Donnell

The Republicans new "Pledge to America" promises the $3.8 trillion addition to the deficit and says nothing about serious budget cuts or governmental reforms that might remotely offset it. Surfing the Beltway talk shows last Sunday, you couldn t find one without a G.O.P. politician adamantly refusing to specify a single program he might cut at, say, the Department of Education (Pell grants?) or the National Institutes of Health (cancer research?). And that s just the small change. Everyone knows that tax cuts for the G.O.P. s wealthiest patrons must come out of Social Security and Medicare payments for everybody else.
The Republicans new "Pledge to America" promises the $3.8 trillion addition to the deficit and says nothing about...
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30 Aug 2010

It’s Witch-Hunt Season

The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress, they subjected the Clinton administration to unrelenting harassment at one point taking 140 hours of sworn testimony over accusations that the White House had misused its Christmas card list.
The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent...
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29 Aug 2010

The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

...Yet inexorably the Koch agenda is morphing into the G.O.P. agenda, as articulated by current Republican members of Congress, including the putative next speaker of the House, John Boehner, and Tea Party Senate candidates like Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, and the new kid on the block, Alaska s anti-Medicaid, anti-unemployment insurance Palin prot g , Joe Miller. Their program opposes a federal deficit, but has no objection to running up trillions in red ink in tax cuts to corporations and the superrich; apologizes to corporate malefactors like BP and derides money put in escrow for oil spill victims as a slush fund ; opposes the extension of unemployment benefits; and calls for a freeze on federal regulations in an era when abuses in the oil, financial, mining, pharmaceutical and even egg industries (among others) have been outrageous.
...Yet inexorably the Koch agenda is morphing into the G.O.P. agenda, as articulated by current Republican members of...
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28 Aug 2010

Paul Singer’s Largess Reflects G.O.P.Â’s Wall St. Support

Mr. Singer, professorial and soft-spoken, used a gathering of business and government leaders at the conservative Manhattan Institute to lash out at indiscriminate attacks by political leaders against anything that moves in the world of finance. Government efforts to take over and run the economy through more regulations, he warned, threatened to ruin the United States standing as the world leader in finance. As the head of a $17 billion hedge fund, Mr. Singer, a self-described Barry Goldwater conservative who is 66, is using his financial might to try to change those policies. He has become one of the biggest bankrollers of Republican causes, giving more than $4 million of his money and raising millions more through fund-raisers he hosts for like-minded candidates who often share his distaste for what they view as governmental over-meddling in the financial industry.
Mr. Singer, professorial and soft-spoken, used a gathering of business and government leaders at the conservative...
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25 Jul 2010

There’s a Battle Outside and It Is Still RaginÂ’

This country was rightly elated when it elected its first African-American president more than 20 months ago. That high was destined to abate, but we reached a new low last week. What does it say about America now, and where it is heading, that a racial provocateur, wielding a deceptively edited video, could not only smear an innocent woman but make every national institution that touched the story look bad? The White House, the N.A.A.C.P. and the news media were all soiled by this episode. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans, who believe in fundamental fairness for all, grapple with the poisonous residue left behind by the many powerful people of all stripes who served as accessories to a high-tech lynching.
This country was rightly elated when it elected its first African-American president more than 20 months ago. That high...
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27 May 2010

Who Wants to Elect a Millionaire

So far this season, the Republicans have offered two new models of their future. One is the Tea Party vision, in which outsiders full of spirit and excitement overthrow the old order. In North Carolina, there was so much spirit and excitement that voters gave the top spot in a Congressional primary to a former drug addict who, according to court documents, once referred to the United States government as the Antichrist and claimed to have personally located the Ark of the Covenant.
So far this season, the Republicans have offered two new models of their future. One is the Tea Party vision, in which...
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17 May 2010

The G.O.P. – Going to Extreme

Utah Republicans have denied Robert Bennett, a very conservative three-term senator, a place on the ballot, because he s not conservative enough. In Maine, party activists have pushed through a platform calling for, among other things, abolishing both the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education. And it s becoming ever more apparent that real power within the G.O.P. rests with the ranting talk-show hosts.
Utah Republicans have denied Robert Bennett, a very conservative three-term senator, a place on the ballot, because he s...
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23 Mar 2010

An Absence of Class in the G.O.P.

Some of the images from the run-up to Sunday s landmark health care vote in the House of Representatives should be seared into the nation s consciousness. We are so far, in so many ways, from being a class act.
Some of the images from the run-up to Sunday s landmark health care vote in the House of Representatives should be...
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30 Dec 2009

Maddow: GOP and lobbyist attempt to hijack tea party movement

Rachel Maddow talks with Libertarian political consultant and blogger Stephen Gordon about the effort by Republicans and corporate interests to take over the actual grassroots Libertarian anti-tax, small-government movement. This video is from MSNBC’s News Live, broadcast Dec. 29, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com
Rachel Maddow talks with Libertarian political consultant and blogger Stephen Gordon about the effort by Republicans and...
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2 Oct 2009

GOP supported public option for property insurance

Countdown’s Keith Olbermann talks about the senators who expressed their opposition to socialized health insurance, yet voted for socialized property insurance. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast Oct. 1, 2009. Download video via RawReplay.com
Countdown’s Keith Olbermann talks about the senators who expressed their opposition to socialized health insurance,...
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