Negative Space: Republicans
- Dear Chairman Haley
- The Libertarians owe Robert Dole thanks for his and the Republican party’s generous (if backhanded) support.
- Defaulting on our debt is an executive choice
- If we default on any debt payments, it is because the White House has made the choice to default. There is no need to default even if the debt ceiling isn’t raised for a long time.
- A fragile alliance
- The tea party and the Republican party alliance is a fragile one: it requires support on both sides. The media and tea partiers recognize this. Republican party leadership needs to figure it out yesterday.
- Institutional memory in political campaigns
- Every four years, some conservatives buckle under the press’s lies, and hope that groveling will make the press treat them nice. It never works.
- No room for reason in Alaska
- Jesus Christ, what the hell are the Republicans doing up in Alaska?
- Nobody Isn’t Partisan
- Partisanship always trumps principle, but this year is worse than any I can recall. If Nobody were on the ballot, he’d have a good chance of winning. With the election as close as any in recent years, Nobody might still garner a majority.
- Nothing to fear but a brokered convention
- The reason someone smart would want a brokered convention is that it’s exciting, and it means media coverage, and even more, it means unfiltered media coverage.
- Republican establishment: spite and sour grapes
- Jerry Wilson tries to stop establishment Republicans from dancing over their own candidate’s defeat.
- Republican Party: show some initiative
- Even their online forms are more for show than results.
- Republicans clamor for “Constitution”
- Democrats decry archaic, post-slavery document. Republicans threaten to cite obscure document in all new legislation.
- Take back the name
- I am proud to be a liberal. I hold as my political idols Jefferson, Paine, and other radical liberals from the founding of this country. It is time that real liberals took back the name from the conservatives!
- Voter canvass on the proposed 2011 Republican Congressional majority agenda
- June 7: If I’m going to give money to generic Republicans, I want to see results. I don’t want to see “proposed” agendas. I want to see a successful checklist of things done.
- Voting for Nobody in New York
- The Republican Party and Doug Hoffman is providing social conservatives with the perfect opportunity to vote for Nobody in New York’s 23rd district.
- Your candidate is unelectable and stupid
- Unelectable and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
More Information
- Why the Super Committee Failed
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“President Obama summed up our debt crisis best when he told Republican members of the House in January 2010 that ‘The major driver of our long-term liabilities… is Medicare and Medicaid and our health-care spending.’ A few months later, however, Mr. Obama and his party’s leaders in Congress added trillions of dollars in new health-care spending to the government’s balance sheet.
‘Democrats on the committee made it clear that the new spending called for in the president’s health law was off the table. Still, committee Republicans offered to negotiate a plan on the other two health-care entitlements—Medicare and Medicaid—based upon…
