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• How Serious Are Republicans? - 01 May 2013
  posted in Columns & Spending & Taxation

  Shortly after President Obama finally released his proposed budget a couple weeks ago, Representative Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, launched a stinging attack on the president not over the president’s call for more taxes and spending or because the president’s budget never balances and adds trillions to the national [...]

• Push to Require Online Sales Tax Divides the G.O.P. - 29 Apr 2013
  posted in Taxation

  Legislation that would force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes from their customers has put antitax and small-government activists like Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the Heritage Foundation in an unusual position: they’re losing. For years, conservative Republican lawmakers have been influenced heavily by the antitax activists in Washington, who have dictated outcomes [...]

• How Libertarians Misread Reagan and Sidelined the GOP - 25 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Opinion

  When reminiscing about the “good-old days,” Republicans often recall the 1980s, when the Reagan coalition won three presidential landslides. But to get back in the game, party leaders may need to look farther back — to a deeper GOP magic of which the Gipper and George H. W. Bush were the last acts. GOP dominance [...]

• Gay Marriage Could ‘Determine The Future Of The GOP’ - 18 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns

  The modern primary system for determining presidential nominees we take for granted nowadays began in earnest in the 1970s. For the Republicans, it really started in 1976 when Ronald Reagan challenged President Ford. That year Reagan won 11 states and was the runner-up for the nomination. That’s the same number of states Rick Santorum won [...]

• Questions for RNC Chairman Reince Priebus - 02 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Politics & Govt

  It’s been described as an autopsy, and given much of what’s in it, truer words were never spoken. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’ report on how to allegedly improve the GOP, as well as his ensuing comment in the media regarding it, just provokes more questions than provide answers. Questions like: · Why is there no [...]

• Autopsy for the Republican Party - 27 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns

  A claque of liberals and media bigwigs are calling RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’s 97-page political opus an Autopsy, which the dictionary defines as the dissection of a body after death. Some people are hoping the Republican Party is dead, but the grassroots are raring to rise up and fight. Support for the Republican Party is [...]

• Memo to Reince Priebus: It’s about Principles not Process - 22 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & Principles

  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has launched a nationwide “Growth and Opportunity Project” reviewing eight key areas he believes must be examined in the wake of a disappointing 2012 campaign. While I applaud Priebus for his willingness to engage in some self-critical analysis, the reality is none of the eight aspects he’s reviewing holds [...]

• GOP rolls over for Obama and recommends Brennan for CIA post - 07 Mar 2013
  posted in Senate

  All of the Democrats and most of the Republicans sitting on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Tuesday gave the nomination of John Brennan as leader of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) the go-ahead, which now sends the nomination to the full Senate for a vote. The Senate committee voted 12 to 3 to [...]

• More GOP governors drink Medicaid Kool-Aid - 05 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & Medicine & Property & States

  New Jersey’s Chris Christie has become the eighth Republican governor to agree to expand Medicaid coverage in his state under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Is the last line of Republican resistance to “Obamacare” disintegrating? In 2011, 26 states joined a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Obamacare provision that would have forced [...]

• White House Issues Veto Threat on GOP Fiscal Plan - 28 Feb 2013
  posted in Economy & Spending & Taxation

  The White House is threatening a presidential veto of a Senate Republican measure that would give President Barack Obama more authority and flexibility to find $85 billion in spending cuts this year. The measure is intended to replace the automatic across-the-board cuts scheduled to kick in Friday. The White House says it instead backs a [...]