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Opinion: Weekly remarks: Obama back on healthcare; GOP's Candice Miller on jobs, jobs, jobs
Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com
• Sat, Oct 3
By Andrew Malcolm Michigan Republican asks where the promised stimulus jobs are. Democrat president predicts more job losses without his healthcare reforms. Republican remarks by Rep. Candice S. Miller, as provided by the Republican National Committee
Opinion: Steele calls abortion "individual choice"
Original at Salon
• Wed, Mar 11
By Alex Koppelman Asked, during an interview with GQ, whether "women have the right to choose abortion," Steele responded, "Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice." That, right there, would seem to put him on the pro-choice side of the debate, at the opposite end of the spectrum from where h...
Opinion: RNC Chair Steele Doesn't Seem To Understand How The Government Works
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Feb 9
By The Huffington Post News Team Whether or not I have policy disagreements with the the Republican National Committee, I nevertheless would prefer that its chair had, at minimum, a baseline understanding of the way government works that's equal to my own. Unfortunately, based upon his performance on Sunday's editio...
Opinion: Renee Feltz: Grand Old Social Networking Party
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Jan 26
By Renee Feltz Donatelli and Connell's consulting firms received most of the limited funds McCain's campaign allocated for Web services. Hewitt wants to redirect the funds away from consultants to grassroots Web outreach. On his radio show he has called for the Republican National Committee to "esta...
Opinion: Republican 'We're Not Racist' Thing Lasts Just One News Cycle [Politics]
Original at Gawker
• Tue, Dec 30
By Pareene Besides, the stupid song itself is obnoxious because it reappropriates a leftist critique of culture for nefarious purposes, not because it has the word "negro" in it. It's only "racist" so far as it assumes all of Obama's appeal stems from this racist archetype and not from his own qualit...
Opinion: 'Magic Negro' flap might help Saltsman
Original at NewsTrust
• Tue, Dec 30
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The Politico - By Andy Barr - Dec. 30 (News Analysis) - The controversy surrounding a comedy CD distributed by Republican National Committee chairman candidate Chip Saltsman has not torpedoed his bid and might have inadvertently helped it. ...When I heard about the story, I had to figure out w...
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Opinion: From MICHAEL STEELE - A New Partnership With State And Local PartiesOriginal at POLITICO MAFIOSO
• Mon, Dec 29
By noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) · Showcase Republican Governors and Legislators who have consistently served as an idea factory for conservative policy. Innovative policies like welfare reform and tax reform came from Republican governors during Bill Clinton’s Presidency. We need to promote more aggressively the...
Opinion: Introducing Ken Blackwell for RNC Chairman from BRUCE ASH
Original at POLITICO MAFIOSO
• Thu, Dec 18
By noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) Expend an unprecedented amount of RNC funding to build vibrant College Republican chapters on every major university campus in the nation and use those chapters as a base to register young people to join the Republican Party, and;
Opinion: A Briar Patch in Illinois
Original at RealClearPolitics
• Mon, Dec 15
Suddenly, conservative columnists, bloggers and the Republican National Committee insisted that all other news was secondary to the burning issue of what Obama and his staff knew about any of this -- and never mind that Blagojevich used one of his favorite expletives to trash Obama for...
Opinion: Brooks embraces conservative scorn
Original at BeltwayBlips
• Wed, Nov 19
New York Times columnist David Brooks seems to have embraced the scorn from some of his fellow conservatives over his criticisms of the Republican Party. At a conference put on by the National Review consisting of the magazine's Ramesh Ponnuru and Jonah Goldberg as well as The Atlantic's...
Opinion: The GOP's Bizarre Purchases: Chocolate Elephants, Art Restoration, Rove's Lunches
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Oct 27
By The Huffington Post News Team Read more: Art Restoration, Mccain Purchases, Mccain Yacht, Republican Convention, Mccain Events, Karl Rove Lunch, Arizona Diamondbacks, Starbucks, Rnc Expenditures, Gop Expenditures, Wine Glasses, Rnc Costs, Chocolate Elephants, McCain Budget, Elephant Shrub, John McCain,...
Opinion: Sarah Palin's Wardrobe Front-Page News at NY Times
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Thu, Oct 23
By Clay Waters When Politico revealed the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 outfitting Sarah Palin and her family after she was picked as John McCain's running mate, one would assume it would be worthy of a brief, snarky story buried on the New York Times's "Caucus" page, filled mostly...
Opinion: Republican style spree clashes with Palin's visit
Original at Toledo Blade
• Thu, Oct 23
It was Politico.com which first detailed the expenditures, the cost of which was picked up by the Republican National Committee. Politico.com's review of disclosure records filed by Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee revealed no similar expenditures. Then again, how mu...
Opinion: Robocall Attacks Ramping UpOriginal at Daily Kos
• Wed, Oct 22
By BarbinMD It's true, I read Obama's words myself. And recently, Congressional liberals introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory prison sentences for violent criminals -- trying to give liberal judges the power to decide whether criminals are sent to jail or set free. With priorities like these, w...
Opinion: Will The Republicans Become The Whigs?
Original at TPMCafe
• Mon, Oct 13
By Jon Taplin There is a great deal of hand-wringing going on inside the Republican Party right now. The potential of a landslide blowout by Obama and the Democrats is inevitably leading to a battle over which faction will control the Republican Party...
Opinion: M.S. Bellows, Jr.: Republicans' Top Lawyer: G.O.P. Never Breaks Even "Spirit" of Election Laws
Original at Huffington Post
• Sun, Sep 21
By M.S. Bellows, Jr. 25. The instances of such voter-suppression tactics are many, but a few examples should suffice. In 1981, Defendant RNC, working with a state party and under the guise of a "Ballot Security Task Force," created lists of voters in predominantly African-American precincts and sent them le...
Opinion: McCain-GOP vs. Obama on Wall St probe
Original at The Swamp
• Tue, Sep 16
Feisty back-and-forth today between Senators John McCain, Barack Obama and the Republican National Committee. It came after the Republican presidential nominee suggested that a commission be set up to study how the Great Wall Street Meltdown happened.
Opinion: Republican Tax Scares
Original at The Carpetbagger Report
• Fri, Jul 25
By RonChusid The post refers to this post at factcheck.org which debunks McCain’s charges on taxes on small business. This isn’t the only time that factcheck.org has debunked false claims on Obama’s tax plans recently. They debunked a claim that Obama “voted to raise income taxes on individuals who earn...