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Republicans considering ideological purity test for candidates Oh man, I see this as a really bad idea. It basically screams "moderates need not apply" and I think it will do nothing to really satisfy the Tea Party wingnuts. I see it as bad for the GOP and bad for the country as well. I...

Looks like some chickens are coming home to roost for the Republican Party... Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership This will definitely make the GOP primaries in the spring very interesting. Of course it makes sense why the establishment Republicans are worried: if they swing too far to the...

We're all familiar with the "Waterloo" comment by Sen. DeMint in reference to the GOP stopping Obama's drive to reform health care and thereby supposedly crippling his presidency & halting the agenda of the Democrats. But I just saw a comment on this blog that got me thinking: Now, I think...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#32560146 After the Michael Steel article, the Maddow show highlights Senator Coburn's virtuous act of promising to help an uninsured woman's husband get treatment for brain injury. He says he will get his office to find help for this woman. However, right...

Wow, the GOP is in worse shape than I previously thought... The Republican Shrinkage Problem Bottom Line: The GOP is shrinking, with more and more moderates heading for the exits. This explains the nutty behavior of the party of late, because what is left in the Republican ranks is more and...

At a recent town hall on the health care issue, a group of right wing agitators attempted to storm their way into an already over-filled room and then started snivelling that they were assaulted. One creep appears to have torn his own shirt and scratched himself to support this claim. He was...

Ok, it's gone too far. Not content to cast reckless accusations during the campaign and fail to consistently repudiate nutjob conspiracy theorists, unashamed at being unable to muster the stones to speak a word of criticism against the worst excesses of the muckraking right-wing pundits, the...

In the Conspiracy Theories subforum there's a thread on the "birther" CT*, and in the course of that thread there have been some very interesting comments made about the immediate future of the GOP. Specifically, it deals with the fact that it seems the GOP leadership has lost control of the...

Powell fires back It's nice to see that Powell and other GOP moderates are stepping up to take the fight to the hardcore right-wingers. I hope this emboldens the "silent minority" of reasonable Republicans to stand up and speak out. We'll see...

1) Denial? I think this really started in Bush's second term, when the GOP began losing congress. 2) Anger? This seemed to have started once the 2008 polls showed the Dems were winning. Certainly it carried through after the election results. 3) Bargaining? I think the GOP is in...

So, I would like to add more options to the poll. See poll.

In light of all the Doomsday news about the sinking GOP, I seriously wonder if we still have some Republican Members hanging around.

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From Politico, yet more evidence that the Republican party continues to crack up... In GOP base, a 'rebellion brewing' Long story short, expect the Republican party to "purge the unbelievers" from its ranks, and in the meantime it will go even further to the right. I predict more craziness...

Yes, The Hilarious Adventures of Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, is about to lower its curtain at the ever-rising height of its clusterf--- crescendo. Here's what he just said in an interview with GQ...

It seems that party unity is beginning to be tested in the GOP nowadays. If more and more Republicans start to break ranks, it'll be interesting to see how the hardcore GOP types handle them... GOP at risk of becoming party in the no

Howdy all, I just found this on the Air America site. Mike Papantonio provides some interesting insights and poses a good question: Who is in charge of the Republican party? BwGd38LLF5Q I haven't listened to AA for quite some time, but if they can get more people like Papantinio on the air...

Senate Republicans targeted many earmarks in the Stimulus Bill, making good on the fiscally conservative reputation the GOP has enjoyed for decades. Trimming everything from "smoking cessation activities", to flood reduction projects, to Amtrak, about $20 billion was cut. Good going! From a...

It seems as if many conservatives feel the Republican party is adrift. They are planning a post-election meeting to plan strategy... Conservatives plan secret post-election strategy session And it seems, as I have been predicting, that win or lose Sarah Palin (not McCain) is going to factor...

A Republican congressman (Curt Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee) has publicly praised an anti-Bush video. And not just any anti-Bush video, but the one by BYU physics professor Steven E. Jones which accuses the Bush administration of deliberately allowing 9/11 to...

CNN) -- "Moral values voters" may have made the difference for President Bush and Republicans in the 2004 election. These voters were driven to the polls not only by their support for the GOP, but also by the dozens of state ballot measures dealing with issues like same-sex marriage and...

Interesting editorial by interesting person Kevin Phillips:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR2005061001685_pf.html Not sure what to make of this. I thought the idea was to debate issues? I heard the tape on the radio, but the tape didn't have what was being said before he went off.

In S.F., Dean calls GOP 'a white Christian party' Howard Dean: "I Hate Republicans" Who did Ann Coulter have to sleep with to get Dean elected as leader of the Democratic party?

So, in another thread, Kodiak made the following comment: That got me wondering: What would the GOP be like without the heavy religious influence in currently has? I'm guessing the Republicans would be more like they were under Regan, but I don't really know. (I wasn't really politically...

Story And the Kerry campaign response? Burn!

There's probably a thread on this already but I couldn't find it: 2 GOP staffers pilfered memos, investigators find Two Republican staffers breached lax electronic security and distributed thousands of Democratic memos about judicial nominees to the GOP, a Senate probe finds. BY HELEN DEWAR...

Here is an example of where critical thinking and government do not mix. The government is getting ready to pass a bill that will require all handguns sold in the US have a child safety lock. story at yahoo news The problem? "Child Safety" locks are snake oil. They don't work. Most guns can...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/nyregion/23protest.html?ei=5062&en=2901e34cbb92cdb2&ex=1078117200&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position= ...full article Looks like a lot of people are going to protest at the RNC. But I can't but thinking all these people are wasting their time.

The illegal immigration issue is a strange one. It seems that both Repubs and Demos are on the same side. THe "look the other way" side. GW is looking to give illegals work status. How can that be? DOnt the republicans want to seal the borders and throw everyone out the country???? Or is...