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Rhode Island Republican leaders are advancing a plan to close their primary to unaffiliated voters.
SIOUX CITY - Hundreds of fans of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gathered at a bookstore in Sioux City, Iowa, waiting early Sunday morning for Palin to arrive and begin autographing copies of her book, “Going Rogue.”
As they campaigned together across Virginia on Thursday and Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele praised Robert F. McDonnell, the state's GOP gubernatorial candidate, as an innovative leader.
Rush Limbaugh realizes you don’t become America’s most popular radio talk-show host without having the hide of an elephant. And he’s long subscribed to a theory: His 21 million listeners know him and love him, and the other 280 million Americans, well, they don’t pay the bills.
In the latest issue of Vogue magazine, the wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says that finding out about her husband’s affair with an Argentine woman felt like “punches to the gut.” Regarding the future of their marriage, she said, “The ball is in his court.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday urged some 2,000 Republican party loyalists to stand up for GOP principles but to be inclusive as the party tries to retake the majority.
The conservative vs. moderate split threatening to rupture the Republican Party played out across the airwaves Sunday, with Colin Powell and Tom Ridge denouncing shrill and judgmental voices they say are steering the GOP too far right. Karl Rove challenged Powell to lay out his vision and "back it up" by helping elect Republicans.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with the American Legion on Friday to apologize for a right-wing extremism report written by her agency, and the veterans group walked away from the meeting mollified.
The freshest new voice of the Republican Party comes at you with the fervor of an evangelical preacher and the fast delivery of a tobacco auctioneer. His message is clear, his convictions rock-solid, his self-assurance in Rush Limbaugh territory.
It has been just six weeks since their party lost control of the White House, but plenty of Republicans are already talking about a political comeback.
- The Republican National Committee released the following excerpts from the Republican address, entitled "Americans Can Do Anything," that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will deliver immediately following President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress:
After losing the presidential contest in November, as well as additional House and Senate seats, the Republican Party can at least find comfort in this one fact: Democrats were in this same position just four years ago.
Out of power, Republicans appear to be retreating to familiar old ground. They're becoming deficit hawks again.
- Although the weeks of congressional wrangling over the fate of the Detroit automakers ended in a collapsed rescue plan, a new political star emerged from the fray: Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
A Louisiana senator is staunchly opposing legislation that would give struggling U.S. automakers $14 billion in emergency loans.
- The 2010 elections may seem to exist only in the distant future, but candidates are already raising money and plotting possible strategies.
- Three days before he won the presidential election, Sen. Barack Obama stood in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, and told a crowd of supporters, "We need to get beyond the old ideological debates that divide us between left and right."
When Washington state voters opened their mail-in ballots and stepped into voting booths, they had this choice for governor:
NEW YORK - The Republicans who survived Tuesday night’s Democratic electoral onslaught might bravely insist that “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States.
OMAHA, Nebraska - It’s 10 o’clock the Saturday morning before Election Day. At the Obama field office in a strip mall in Omaha, Neb., Obama regional field director Charlie Ellsworth is teaching 16 Obama supporters how to do door-to-door canvassing.
- There are a number of smart election previews out there.
- A number of folks will view the polling memo from John McCain's pollster, Bill McInturff, as nothing more than rose-colored spin in order to prop up the Republican mindset in the days before Election Day.
The Republican National Committee tapped a $5 million line of credit Tuesday as part of a renewed effort to help GOP senators facing re-election difficulties, the party's chairman said Tuesday.
Key Republican Strategist Can't Name One Way That Republicans Helped the Country in the Last 20 YearsTodd Harris can't name one thing the Republicans did in the last 10 – 20 years to help the country. His excuse is basically "that's not my job to know that."
Sarah Palin will headline first-ever Tea Party ConventionAlmost 1-1/2 years since she shook up American politics with her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is set to headline another landmark political event: the first-ever Tea Party Convention next month in Nashvill …
Gallup : "The gains the Democratic Party made in public support during the last several years of the George W. Bush administration have disappeared," .....problematic for Democrats is the trend line of the numbers last year; in the first three months of 2009, the party's support stood at nearly 52 percent while in the final quarter of the year it had fallen to 47 percent.
Chris Matthews: GOP has done NOTHING for 20 years.MATTHEWS: That`s the bragging point of the Republican Party for the last -- I asked you to name one thing they`ve done for this country in 15 to 20 years. I`ll keep going back further. And you`re having a hard time giving me an answer. What has the Republican Party...
POLL The Republicans are really fond of going back to the Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln as the definitive proof that their political party has done something beneficial and considered good for the country.
Fannie, Freddie, and the New Red and BlueBoth sides are right and both sides are wrong. I know that sounds like pox-on-both-their-houses pundit sophistry. But the point is that if you focus on one side and not the other, you miss the entire point.
Local Tea Party co-founder doesn't want Steele 'out there with the tea partiers.' (With Video)Yesterday on Fox News, RNC chair Michael Steele said that if he wasn't currently leading the Republican Party, he'd join the ranks of the far right tea party protesters.
GOP operative accused of gay-baiting now target of innuendoLast month, Andy Seré, the spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, was accused of gay-baiting when he attacked Tennessee state Sen.
Republicans Dropping Like Flies From 2010 ElectionDemocrats are grumbling over headlines portraying their party as "dropping like flies" given the flood of recent retirements and say the press is ignoring there actually are more Republicans opting against reelection.
Daily Dish: 25 States Allow First Cousin Marriages vs 7 States Allow Same Sex MarriageDaily Dish: "For The Record" Link shows two maps of the United States of America: (1) States that allow same sex marriage and (2) States that allow marriage between first cousins.
By David J. Hudson I am puzzled as to why we have not voted all of our political leaders out of office who have a pattern over the years of voting strictly in favor of corporations over the average American.
Tea Party TeensThe tea party movement is now more popular than either major party, and it may become a major force in American politics. This could be the movement of the new decade.
From McCarthy to Creationism: How Conservatives Get Their Point Of View Taught In Schools.I think most Progressives, Liberals or any other stripe of DFH's often despair at how seemingly clueless the majority of our nation is. After all, there are things the political Right spouts, which are clearly crazy.
Who Should Write The Intro To Dick Cheney's Book?Everyone's favorite congressman is at it again. Tuesday, on "The ED Show," Rep. Alan Grayson was asked why he thought Dick Cheney continued to publicly criticize the president. Grayson said that Cheney is just getting a head start on promoting his upcoming book.
Democrats ignore the American two-party political system because it has become too inconvenientIn a bald political move, the Democrats have decided to hasten the melding of the House and Senate versions of their bills, with participation from representatives of the Obama administration.
The Mad Faxer is back: Backwards-Faxing, Mexican-Despising Bleeding-Marker Bandit Strikes AgainWonkette:
After the Underwear Bomber, Republicans Have Shown Their True Color: WeaknessThe naked politicization of the attempted attack has been both shameful and hypocritical. (Can you imagine what these same Republicans, from Dick Cheney to members of Congress, would have done if Democrats criticized George W.
After the Christmas Day attempted terrorist bombing of a US airliner former Vice President Dick Cheney accused president Barack Obama of pretending the US is not at war and for not reacting to it more strongly. Some other Republicans and some media also criticized his response.
The Shoe Bomber And The Undie BomberDaily Dish: "Bloggers have had a great time exposing the inconsistency on the pro-torture right. Why should Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab be tortured as an enemy combatant while Richard Reid was prosecuted by civilian authorities under Bush? ........" ===================
The Tea Party Teens: More Americans Have A Positive View Of The Tea Party Than Either The Dems or GOPThe tea party movement is mostly famous for its flamboyant fringe. But it is now more popular than either major party. According to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 41 percent of Americans have a positive view of the tea party movement.
Head of Christian Doctors Group Quits American Medical Association Over Pro-Abortion AdvocacyThe American Medical Association +This Doctor is the Head of 17,000 Doctors. Article in part
Rush Limbaugh's "Girlfriend" gives details of his "Heart Attack"Alone in his Kahala Hotel suite at nap time last Wednesday, an obviously stressed out Rush Limbaugh called his longtime girlfriend and told her: "Kate, I think I'm having a heart attack!"
So, you think you know politics? I offer you the chance to prove it, and go on the record. You can vote, and comment. Feel free to put your reputation on the line. Will you accept the challenge?
New Blood Is Needed In Washington, DCI'm not as opposed to Congress spending money the way they currently are, as I am to them not meeting our long-term national needs! In order for America to be prosperous again, we have to first meet our Energy requirements and switch over from our present Petroleum Oil Distrib …
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