Such remarkable solidarity in that Republican Party: all 39 Senators in the super-minority voted NO, we don't even want to discuss health care reform legislation. To hell with the President, to hell with the Democrats (and independents), to hell with the majority of the American people, we' [...]
Lately it seems many supposedly nonpartisan elections are becoming less and less so. The Idaho Republican Party in June called for the party to participate in nonpartisan local elections and to identify and support the election of Republican candidates to city councils, school boards and other local government posts. The [...]
Lately it seems many supposedly nonpartisan elections are becoming less and less so. The Idaho Republican Party in June called for the party to participate in nonpartisan local elections and to identify and support the election of Republican candidates to city councils, school boards and other local government posts. The [...]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.): My Near Death Panel Experience.
"When the most extreme elements peddling false information can cow senior members of Congress into embracing their claims, it does not bode well for either policymaking or for the Republican Party."
But there is some good news [...]
Two bad trends have supplanted the good old days. The radical right, the tea baggers its new manifestation, is purging the Republican Party of moderate officeholders and candidates, and turning once-sensible office seekers into pander bears. Locally, an iron triangle of left interest groups (e.g. NARAL) liberal media (The Stranger, PubliCola) [...]
JEERS ... to Idaho Republican Party Chairman Norm Semanko. Segments of his party are invading the nonpartisan city elections. Why isn't he discouraging it? In Bonneville County, the Republican Party has endorsed Idaho Falls City Council candidate Alex Creek and given him $1,000. Twin Falls Republicans also toyed' [...]
Jonathan Parker, executive director of the Idaho Republican Party, said its state central committee passed a resolution in June encouraging Republicans to become more involved in municipal elections. He stressed that whether or not to make endorsements is a decision for the local central committees to make, not [...]
