GOP

The GOP’s woman problem

by News Sources 03.26.2012

Frank Rich writes: At the time, back in January in New Hampshire, it didn’t seem like that big a deal, certainly nothing to rival previous debate flash points like “9-9-9” and “Oops!” But in retrospect it may have been one of the more fateful twists of the Republican presidential campaign. The exchange was prompted by [...]

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How the GOP is resegregating the South

by News Sources 02.02.2012

The Nation reports: North Carolina State Senator Eric Mansfield was born in 1964, a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed the right to vote for African-Americans. He grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and moved to North Carolina when he was stationed at Fort Bragg. He became an Army doctor, opening [...]

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When the GOP came to town on a suicide mission

by Paul Woodward 01.12.2012

Here is Newt Gingrich and Sheldon Adelson‘s campaign to support Occupy Wall Street! Well, not really. Ostensibly it’s a 30-minute attack ad on Mitt Romney. Beyond needing to know that this as a production by Gingrich’s super PAC, “Winning Our Future,” this video speaks for itself. More than anything, this is a demonstration of the [...]

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Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan and the non-interventionists

by News Sources 01.06.2012

Noting the fact that Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan both share the ‘virtue’ of being non-interventionists, Fred Clark starts drilling into the question of whether there really is such a principle as non-interventionism. I want to look one further step back from this discussion and question the assumption here that “non-interventionism” is a Good Thing. [...]

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The excommunication of Ron Paul

by News Sources 12.30.2011

Steve Kornacki writes: When you’re running near the top of the polls, it’s inevitable that your opponents will gang up on you. But there’s something different about the nature of the attacks Ron Paul is now facing – and, potentially, about their implications. In the past few days, three of Paul’s rivals – Newt Gingrich, [...]

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Legends of the fail

by News Sources 11.11.2011

Paul Krugman writes: This is the way the euro ends — not with a bang but with bunga bunga. Not long ago, European leaders were insisting that Greece could and should stay on the euro while paying its debts in full. Now, with Italy falling off a cliff, it’s hard to see how the euro [...]

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New York Times discovers Netanyahu has friends in Congress

by Paul Woodward 09.21.2011

“House Republicans Discover a Growing Bond With Netanyahu” says the headline in the New York Times. Discover? This isn’t exactly news. What the headline should say (and I know I’m fantasizing about an imaginary New York Times whose headlines don’t pull any punches) is: “House GOP trusts Netanyahu more than Obama.” The report does acknowledge: [...]

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Rick Perry, the Likudnik

by News Sources 09.20.2011

Haaretz reports: Except for the fact that the proceedings were held in English, an Israeli attending Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “press conference” at the W Hotel in midtown Manhattan Tuesday morning might be excused for imagining that he was in the middle of a pep rally for one of Israel’s right-wing politicians, and a hard-liner [...]

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Bachmann regrets the fall of Arab dictators

by News Sources 09.18.2011

National Journal reports: Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Friday decried the “Arab Spring” that has toppled three dictators and given rise to pro-democracy protests across the Middle East for promoting the “rise of radical elements” across the region. In a speech to about 400 Republicans gathered for the state party’s fall convention here, the [...]

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The GOP war on voting

by News Sources 09.17.2011

Ari Berman writes: 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. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop [...]

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Meet New York City’s terror-linked political kingmaker

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Max Blumenthal writes: Bob Turner, the Republican candidate campaigning to replace disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, picked up a crucial endorsement last week when Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind threw his support to him. Hikind is the former leader of the the Jewish Defense League (JDL), which the FBI lists as a terror organization. He was [...]

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Rick Perry, friend of Israel, on a mission from God, calls for Ben Bernanke to be lynched

by News Sources 08.16.2011

Think Progress: Texas Governor Rick Perry, who entered the presidential campaign on Saturday, appeared to suggest a violent response would be warranted should Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke “print more money” between now and the election. Speaking just now in Iowa, Perry said, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I [...]

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We’ve been warned: the system is ready to blow

by News Sources 08.15.2011

From Britain, Larry Elliott writes: For the past two centuries and more, life in Britain has been governed by a simple concept: tomorrow will be better than today. Black August has given us a glimpse of a dystopia, one in which the financial markets buckle and the cities burn. Like Scrooge, we have been shown [...]

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How the GOP and America’s Arab allies support slavery

by News Sources 06.28.2011

Time magazine reports: Three days before the congressional elections last fall, Hillary Rodham Clinton stood halfway around the world, pledging to young victims of human trafficking at Cambodia’s s Siem Reap Center that they would continue to enjoy the support of the U.S. State Department, which then provided some $336,000 to the shelter. The acclaimed [...]

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U.S. Libya mission exposes divisions in Congress and within GOP

by News Sources 06.22.2011

The New York Times reports: It is a familiar pattern in a government of checks and balances: members of Congress almost instinctively criticize the foreign adventures of a president from the opposite party. But the current imbroglio in Congress over the American involvement in Libya exposes a deep and unusual foreign policy schism within the [...]

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GOP splitting over U.S. role in Libya and Afghanistan

by News Sources 06.21.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: Republicans are facing a widening fissure over the U.S. role on the world stage as party leaders decide whether to confront President Obama this week over his policy toward Libya. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and other congressional Republican leaders have said that U.S. involvement in NATO’s bombing campaign, [...]

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US anti-Muslim rally raises fears

by News Sources 03.05.2011
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Meet the white supremacist leading the GOP’s anti-Sharia crusade

by News Sources 03.01.2011

Mother Jones reports: Last week, legislators in Tennessee introduced a radical bill that would make “material support” for Islamic law punishable by 15 years in prison. The proposal marks a dramatic new step in the conservative campaign against Muslim-Americans. If passed, critics say even seemingly benign activities like re-painting the exterior of a mosque or [...]

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“Terrorism” is now a fabrication of a national security state

by Paul Woodward 12.01.2010

This is not a conspiracy theory. To say that terrorism is a fabrication of a national security state is to say that when the label “terrorist” starts being indiscriminately applied to anyone who threatens the government we have taken another step towards totalitarianism. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the incoming chairman of the House Committee on [...]

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Cantor recants

by News Sources 11.15.2010

MJ Rosenberg writes: [Soon-to-be House Majority Leader Eric Cantor] has been an AIPAC cutout since he first was elected to office. He’s been to more AIPAC meetings than he can probably count. And he should have figured out by now that the lobby is extremely careful, obsessively careful, to always emphasize loyalty to the United [...]

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Beware the white Obama

by News Sources 11.05.2010

Pepe Escobar writes: The American right’s “road map” for these past two years has been to declare Obama an abysmal failure since January 20, 2008, and to do absolutely zilch to help the country out of its political/economic/cultural quagmire. Now – at least in theory – their bluff has been called by the American electorate. [...]

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Wall Street’s best friend: The Tea Party

by News Sources 10.28.2010

In Salon, Andrew Leonard writes: Call it the amazing bank bailout boomerang. Even though few things enrage Tea Party rebels more than government checks made out to Wall Street financial companies, the reverse dynamic does not seem to be a problem. The top 12 Senatorial candidates most favored by Tea Partiers have already hauled in [...]

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Scapegoating-psychology and rising xenophobia in America

by Paul Woodward 09.14.2010

Peter Beinart compares the mood in America with the hysteria that provoked the Palmer Raids in 1919 and the anti-Communist fearmongering of McCarthyism that began in the late 1940s. Ever since 9/11, according to opinion polls, Republicans have worried more about terrorism than have Democrats. Initially, this fear translated into overwhelming support for military action [...]

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“Ground Zero mosque” is the new “death panels”

by News Sources 08.17.2010

Jeffrey Feldman writes: Cordoba House is not some sudden and new issue, but the latest attempt by the Republican Party to displace meaningful political debate with pitch-fork-and-torches style mass hysteria. The themes of these newest wave of delirium are familiar: Muslim conspiracy; infiltration by foreign terrorists; Liberal collusion. Are we a nation ruled by mass [...]

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