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Richard Grenell, gay conservatives & the GOP
2012-05-24 19:18:00 in 2004, in the decision that would (indirectly) launch my blogging career, Log Cabin passed up an opportunity that Richard Grenell yesterday seized with relish–the chance to articulate the role for gay conservatives within a party whose entire agenda we do not support. By failing to endorse George W. Bush (and making a spectacle of ...
By: GayPatriot
GOProud, Log Cabin deliver stern warnings to Mitt Romney
2012-05-13 00:04:00 What Log Cabin Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper giveth in one release on Thursday, with his strong statement on Obama’s fundraising pitch to the gay community, he taketh (partially) away in another that very day with a threatening language directed against his own party’s presidential nominee: Marriage equality has captured the nation?s attention, and the response to ...
By: GayPatriot
Romney?s Adversarial View of Russia Stirs Debate
2012-05-12 21:14:00 The New York Times By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. Published: May 11, 2012 WASHINGTON ?Mitt Romney?s recent declaration that Russia is America?s top geopolitical adversary drew raised eyebrows and worse from many Democrats, some Republicans and the Russians themselves, all of whom suggested that Mr. Romney was misguidedly stuck in a cold war mind-set. But ...
By: Suzie-Q
Listen to Majority Leader Cantor lend credence to Tony Perkins' 'values' an
2012-05-11 15:53:00 On a recent edition of "60 Minutes," Diana Cantor, the wife of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, revealed that she supports marriage equality for same-sex couples (10:06 in this clip): But rather than support his wife's views on what makes...
By: Good As You
Log Cabin rebukes Obama on gay marriage statement
2012-05-10 08:42:00 R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin Executive Director has not joined the heads of other D.C.-based gay organizations in praising the president for putting forward the same position yesterday as Dick Cheney offered twelve years ago: Log Cabin Republicans appreciate that President Obama has finally come in line with leaders like Vice President Dick Cheney on ...
By: GayPatriot
Log Cabin Republicans underwhelmed by Obama support
2012-05-09 22:21:00 The leaders of two organizations for gay Republicans responded to President Barack Obama's support for same-sex marriage Wednesday with backhanded compliments and criticism of the timing of the president's decision. "It is good to see that after intense political pressure that President Obama has finally come around to the Dick Cheney position on marriage equality," said ...
Senate Republicans block Democratic student loan bill
2012-05-08 18:35:00 Senate Republicans on Tuesday afternoon blocked the advancement of a Democratic bill to extend the current student loan interest rate over objections to how the measure will be funded.
The Endless Arrogance of Wall Street
2012-05-03 22:05:00 The American Prospect Jamelle Bouie May 2, 2012 The super wealthy apparently believe that they deserve constant deference. Greg Sargent is rightfully stunned by the entitled petulance of Wall Street bankers who are shocked?shocked?that President Obama would do anything other than praise their indispensable brilliance: Wall Streeters are so upset about Obama?s harsh populist rhetoric ...
By: Suzie-Q
Let's Just Say It...The Republicans Are Weapons of Mass Obstruction !!!
2012-04-28 18:05:00 Since the Clinton presidency, the Democrat base has hewed to the center-left on issues from welfare reform to fiscal policy. While the Democrats may have moved from their 40-yard line to their 25, the Republicans have gone from their 40 to somewhere behind their goal post. (taken from the article Let's Just say it: The Republicans are the Problem)Everybody is talking about this article, everybody is blogging about and everybody thinks it is the most truthful, spot on article since sliced bread that talks about the Republicans and what they have done to our country with their Weapons of Mass Obstruction. Everybody I am in contact with at least. That's my Everybody.Jay Rosen will be chiming in soon on Monday.Rosen's article will also be an article that is a must read. Just like Orenstein'-Thomas Mann's is.The Dynamic Duo of Orensteinn and Mann have also written the book: It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics...
Let?s Just Say It: The Republicans Are The Problem
2012-04-28 03:15:00 The Washington Post By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, Friday, April 27, 8:46 AM Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are ?78 to 81? Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it?s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either ...
By: Suzie-Q
Republicans really are more broad-minded (than Democrats)
2012-04-26 19:06:00 Maybe it’s that because at least starting in college, we have to confront the biases of our professors, listening to, engaging with and responding to their arguments that we develop the appreciation of opposing arguments. Yesterday, Bruce alerted me to a poll (which I had also noticed) showing how (compared to Democrats) broad-minded Republicans are: ...
By: GayPatriot
What gay Republicans (should) expect from the state
2012-04-24 22:39:00 Consistent with conservative principles as articulated by the Republican Party at least since its founding — and particularly in the post-Civil War era as well as in the last third of the preceding century (roughly synchronous with the rise of Ronald Reagan), we should favor laws which do not distinguish based on race, religion, sexual ...
By: GayPatriot
Inside look at the Republicans? anti-Obama war room
2012-04-23 12:21:00 While Republican candidates battled it out in their primaries and caucuses, the Republican National Committee (RNC) was preparing for the general election battle against President Obama. Political Punch got an exclusive look inside the committee's anti-Obama attack machine, and the space they call "the war room."
Republicans appeal to the whole person,unlike Democrats who dwell on the di
2012-04-05 23:36:00 “Occasionally,” writes Tina Korbe, a woman who feels Howard Dean’s party patronizes those of her sex . . . Democrats give me the distinct impression that their positions on, say, gay marriage or immigration are based more on the desire to win votes than cohesive principles. It?s suspicious, for example, that the president?s official position ...
By: GayPatriot
Log Cabin to back GOP nominee this year?
2012-03-21 18:54:00 If there is a Log Cabin/GOProud division among gay Republicans and conservatives, this blog clearly falls on the side of the newer group, in large part because we have doubted the commitment of the older organization to the Republican Party and its Reaganite principles — and because we have seen its leadership (at least prior ...
By: GayPatriot
Where was liberal outrage when female Republicans were slurred?
2012-03-07 19:33:00 Even though I have some serious concerns about Michele Bachmann’s stands on social issues, I believe we should counter her with arguments rather than insults. Some liberal personalities — as well as a good number of gay activists — have preferred instead to address her on a regular basis which the kind of slur Rush ...
By: GayPatriot
Democrats trying to blackmail lobbyists into not donating to Republicans?
2012-03-01 21:48:00 That’s certain the impression I got when I read this article that a liberal, yes, a liberal friend linked on Facebook: Democrats on K Street are warning their corporate clients: Give to Republican challengers in the 2012 election, and you?ll regret it come tax reform time. Lobbyists are getting that message from allies of powerful ...
By: GayPatriot
The Gang That Couldn?t Bomb Straight
2012-02-24 21:11:00 Robert Scheer | TruthDig | February 23, 2012 Here we go again. With the economy showing faint signs of life and their positions on the social issues alienating most moderates, the leading Republican candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, have returned to the elixir of warmongering to once again sway the gullible masses. The ...
By: Suzie-Q
Playing defense on gas prices, Obama faults Republicans for doing what he (
2012-02-24 09:00:00 For the better part of the past two months, the president has had it pretty easy. We’ve seen some decent jobs numbers. He has not really been in the public eye while the media have focused on the GOP’s internecine struggles. He hasn’t really had to play defense. Until gas prices started rising. And this ...
By: GayPatriot
Republicans Must Keep Eyes on Defining Choice of 2012 Election:Freedom & Fr
2012-02-23 08:35:00 In his book, The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future, perhaps the most important public policy manifesto of the Obama era*, Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, spells out the choice facing Americans in the coming election: This is not the culture war of ...
By: GayPatriot
Two Charts That Should Terrify Republicans
2012-02-22 05:05:00 February 20, 2012, 4:52 AM TPM Brian Beutler If Republicans seem spooked to you these days, here?s why. President Obama?s political comeback over the past several months aligns neatly with when he began more aggressively attacking the GOP and politicking for economic growth and equality back in September. But over that same stretch, the economy ...
By: Suzie-Q
This just in: Republicans plead for Atheist vote
2012-02-20 15:19:00 In a startling turn of events, Republican presidential candidates are now catering to the rapidly growing atheist vote to achieve victory in November. The muddied and bruised Presidential contenders desperate to beat Obama are pulling out all the stops. Newt Gingrich recently stated that he was just kidding about a trust issue with people who... Read more »
While He Was A Senator, Rick Santorum Voted With President George W. Bush O
2012-02-16 18:06:00 February 15, 2012 Addicting Info By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Rick Santorum is currently the poster boy for conservatism and the candidate leading the national polls among Republicans. Every day, Romney gets a little weaker, and Santorum gets a little stronger. And that makes him a threat to be the Republican Presidential nominee who faces ...
By: Suzie-Q
Polling Shows Obama Heading For Huge Victory Over Romney
2012-02-03 05:31:00 Politicususa- February 1, 2012 By Jason Easley It is early, but an analysis of state by state polling data reveals that President Obama may be heading for a huge victory over Mitt Romney. Although President Obama?s polling numbers have been trending upwards for a few months now, the right wing media is claiming that the ...
By: Suzie-Q
Since when do conservative Republicans want to hang gay people?
2012-02-02 20:59:00 In his review of Wanted Women, “a new joint biography of two Muslim women [which] refuses to distinguish between an al-Qaida terrorist and a feminist intellectual“, historian Andrew Roberts provides one example of the author’s twisted sense of moral equivalence: Writing of a speech that [Somali-born campaigner for Muslim women?s rights, Ayaan] Hirsi Ali was set ...
By: GayPatriot
Republicans Debate Back to Back
2012-01-08 18:48:00 Your Ad Here Last night at 9 pm the Republicans debated at St Anslem College for the first time without Bachmann, and this morning at 9 a.m. they debated in New Hampshire’s capital. Two debates within 12 hours of each other – that’s a lot of debating. The debate from last night stood out more (Read More...)
No, the Republicans didn?t hate on gays last night
2012-01-08 16:59:00 Based on the commentary of some of my left-of-center gay friends on Facebook last night, the Republican presidential candidates engaged in a hatefest against gay people. I did not watch the debate. I am back in my hometown of Cincinnati and preferred to spend the evening with my brother. Then, this morning, after spending time ...
By: GayPatriot
NYT: Obama uses ?recess? appointments to demonize Republicans
2012-01-05 07:10:00 Even New York Times writers Helen Cooper and Jennifer Steinhauer dub political the president’s decision yesterday to make three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and one to a new “consumer” agency: President Obama touched off a fierce election-year confrontation with Congressional Republicans on Wednesday, defying their deep opposition to appoint Richard Cordray ...
By: GayPatriot
Republicans Propose Bill to Treat Mexican Drug Cartels as ?Terrorist Insurg
2011-12-20 23:15:00 Republicans Propose Bill to Treat Mexican Drug Cartels as ‘Terrorist Insurgency’ CNSNews.com ? Calling the situation along the U.S. border a ?threat to national security,? a House committee Thursday took up a bill sponsored by Republican congressmen that would treat … Continue reading →
By: TexasFred's
The Republicans: They Are Who We Thought They Were
2011-12-17 01:03:00 Addicting Info December 16, 2011 By Bryian Revoner After watching this latest Republican Debate on Fox News, one thing becomes clear, and that is the very real split between the insane and the reasonable. For whatever reason, there just does not seem to be any middle-ground in this GOP nomination grouping or the conservative trademark ...
By: Suzie-Q
John Boehner, Republicans stand ready to work with Democrats to extend the
2011-12-02 03:10:00 Washington (Dec 1) At his weekly press conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reiterated that Republicans stand ready to work with Democrats to extend the payroll tax break and unemployment insurance, but reaffirmed that it must be done in a fiscally-responsible way to protect Social Security and avoid compounding the crippling debt problems facing our nation. Speaker Boehner also highlighted House action on three additional jobs bills this week, and urged President Obama to call on Senate Democrats to act on these, and more than 20 other bipartisan, House-passed jobs bills awaiting action.BOEHNER: REPUBLICANS READY TO WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT TO FIND COMMON GROUND ON JOBS, PAYROLL TAX BREAK EXTENSION:?Republicans told the president back in September that we are ready to work with him to find common ground on jobs, including an extension of the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance. And that offer still stands. The key question is: how do we pay for it??When ...
Many Mississippi Republicans Want Interracial Marriage Banned
2011-11-24 09:42:00 Ok, this is 2011 in the 21st Century, right? In America. Where we have an African American President in Barack Obama. Right? Ok, so with all of that, why is it that half of Mississippi Republicans polled want Interracial Marriage banned? Yes you read that correctly. Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian should avoid that state (Read More...)
Debates show our media save scrutiny for Republicans(sending softballs to D
2011-11-13 19:36:00 “It would be wonderful,” an Olympian observer wrote on Friday . . . to see President Obama grilled as the Republicans were Wednesday night in Michigan.What exactly will you cut in the entitlement programs? How will you solve the foreclosure crisis? And we’d like you to answer in 30 seconds while we look at you ...
By: GayPatriot
Mr. President: An Iran Attack on Israel Is Attack on US
2011-11-07 23:50:00 A devious bit of propaganda from a couple of new York rats. I’s not like we haven’t noticed all of the right wing hawks chanting the same mantra about Irans nuclear capabilities. Global Warfare: Targeting Iran: Preparing for World War III Global Research, November 3, 2011 by Michel Chossudovsky The military deployment of US-NATO forces ...
By: Suzie-Q
Why Santorum is not catching fire with Iowa Republicans
2011-11-07 19:08:00 Byron York has a fascinating post this morning in the Washington Examiner addressing the question of why former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is running for president. Despite having visited 97 of the Hawkeye State’s 99 counties, he still lags in polls, far behind Mitt Romney and Herman Cain who have spent far less time in ...
By: GayPatriot
Virginia Republicans backing Patrick Forrest
2011-11-07 09:45:00 When announcing that this blog had endorsed Patrick Forrest for Virginia State Senate, I reported that when asked ?if supporting an openly gay candidate like Forrest will hurt him or other Republicans in rural parts of Virginia?, the Commonwealth’s Republican governor responded ?emphatically? in the negative, . . . pointing out that ?Patrick Forrest is all ...
By: GayPatriot
Log Cabin?s Non-Inclusive Internal Affairs
2011-10-15 00:18:00 For as long as I have been out and amongst gay Republicans, I have heard my partisan and philosophical peers clamoring for a conservative alternative to HRC and the other left-leaning gay groups based in our nation’s capital. These iconoclastic gays were concerned that Log Cabin had become too cozy with these groups. Many left ...
By: GayPatriot
#US: #Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People
2011-09-05 08:27:00 Via Scoop.it – Revolutionary newsTruthdig: “Republican spending knows no limits when it comes to going into debt for failed and useless wars. But it?s another story when it comes to providing federal assistance for victims of Hurricane Irene or other catastrophes we may face in the months ahead.”Show original Tags: federal assistance, hurricane irene <BR/>
By: News for Greens
Obama Sides With Republicans, Business in Canceling EPA?s Ozone Standard
2011-09-05 08:27:00 Via Scoop.it – Green Party President Barack Obama, siding with Republicans and business leaders, canceled tighter rules on ozone proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce regulation in a slowing economy.Show original Tags: environmental protection agency, green party, party president, barack obama <BR/>
By: News for Greens
How Many Republicans Does It Take to Screw Up Our Light Bulb Savings?
2011-07-21 20:10:00 By Joe Romm on Jul 11, 2011 at 10:16 am David Edison Sloane: My great-grandfather would be all for keeping intact the Energy Independence and Security Act. The law requires light bulbs of all types to be at least 25 percent more energy efficient by 2012. To [Thomas Alva] Edison, that would have been no big deal. ...
By: News for Greens
Republicans Fighting Their Own Right-To-Work Measures?
2011-05-10 19:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Associated Press is reporting that resistance to right-to-work laws is coming from a surprising source in many states where the legislation has been lately introduced. It seems that Republicans themselves are divided on the efficacy of right-to-work laws and are busy obstructing other Republicans that are for such laws. AP notes that only one state, New Hampshire, which has newly introduced the bill, has seen it pass the legislature but even that state still might find the thing vetoed by a Democrat governor. In several other states Republicans are bickering over the law stalling passage....
GM Exec: Reporting GM's Failures Hurts... Republicans?
2011-05-05 18:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In an odd turn of events, former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz thinks that anyone that criticizes GM is not only "mis-informed" but insists that those "foaming ideologues" that criticize the car giant are "damaging the Republican Party." It is interesting that an executive in the company derided as "Government Motors" is trying to direct attention away from his minders in the Obama administration and toward the opposing party, and just before a general election at that. It is also interesting to see Lutz defending GM as the "future" of the car business. Lately GM has not been turning out the sort of products that puts the company at the head of much of anything....
Kinzinger Statement on House Republicans' FY 2012 Budget
2011-04-17 18:00:00 From the office of Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R,IL)... Washington, D.C. - Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-11) today issued the following statement in support of H.Con.Res 34, the House Republicans' "Path to Prosperity" plan: "America stands at a critical crossroads - Should Washington wade deeper in the red and follow the President's budget proposal? Or, should we chart a new way forward under the House Republicans' budget resolution? "It's no secret that we cannot continue down this reckless trajectory. Our nation's total debt has already hit an all-time high of more than $14.2 trillion and is alarmingly close to reaching the federal debt ceiling. We've kicked the can down the road for too long and now, there's no more road left....
Republicans Attempt to Blindside the Gays in IL
2011-04-12 09:39:00 Call your Illinois Senator at 217-782-3944 to stop this insane bill- SB1123. The Illinois GOP is trying to blindside the state with an amendment to an innocent-sounding bill that supports blind people. The new law proposed in Amendment 001 would exempt religious and private adoption agencies from the Human Rights Act in Illinois, a law that prevents discrimination based on race, religion, disability, gender identity and sexual orientation. So if a religious based organization, which accepts state taxpayer funds, doesn't want to let a black couple or a gay couple adopt a baby, it doesn't have to. Did they think no one would see it? --read more...
Congressman Kinzinger Commends House Republicans' Fiscal Year 2012 Bud
2011-04-05 21:30:00 From the office of Representative Adam Kinzinger (R, ILL, 11th District)... Washington, D.C. - Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-11) today issued the following statement commending the House Republicans' Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Resolution: "Last week, our nation's total debt hit an all-time high of more than $14.2 trillion and is alarmingly close to reaching the federal debt ceiling as the debate over the budget intensifies....
Illinois Republicans have a plan for a balanced budget in four years- Gover
2011-03-18 15:30:00 Illinois Republicans went all in Thursday by providing their proposals for budget cuts that could get Illinois back to solvency. Senate Minority leader Christine Radogno provided a senate Republican plan that would cut $5 billion in education, health care and state employee pensions. Radogno says her plan will create a $4 billion budget surplus within four years without having to borrow or make the tax increase permanent. Governor Quinn called the GOP plan "farfetched." Interestingly, he also said: "We are not going to go backwards. The apostles of, you know, Draconian cuts, ends up hurting your economic growth and jobs. I'm not listening to them."
Republicans In Wisc. Pass Curbs on Gov't Unions
2011-03-10 06:43:00 -By Warner Todd Huston After all the huffing and puffing, we find that Wisconsin's Republicans have a spine after all. They have taken a step that they have many times threatened and divvied up the budget bill with the provisions to scale back some of the collective bargaining "rights" once had by the state's government employees and gone ahead and passed the thing. On Wednesday night, the Wisconsin Senate -- minus the fleebagging Democrats that have run off to Illinois -- separated from the budget bill the part of the previous legislation that eliminates some, but not all, of the collective bargaining capacity of government workers. Even though the past legislation could not be passed without a quorum because of...
Illinois Republicans Donating to... a Democrat?
2011-02-25 20:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston This is why Illinois politics is called "the combine." It's because all too often there doesn't seem to be a whit of a difference between Republicans and Democrats -- not always, but all too often. They even donate to each other's campaigns. RepublicanNewsWatch.com has the latest examination of the sort of one-hand-washing-the-other-styl-e of politics that has destroyed Illinois. In this case it is the story of all sorts of Republicans donating many thousands of dollars to the campaign of Susan Mendoza, the liberal that ran (and won) for Chicago City Clerk....
Embarrassed Republicans Admit They?ve Been Thinking Of Eisenhower Whole Tim
2011-02-22 00:11:00 [From: The Onion, America's Finest News Source ] GOP leaders “can’t believe” they misattributed Eisenhower’s breadth of vision and leadership to Reagan. WASHINGTON - At a press conference Monday, visibly embarrassed leaders of the Republican National Committee acknowledged that their nonstop, effusive praise of Ronald Reagan has been wholly unintentional, admitting they somehow managed to confuse him with ...
By: News for Greens
Republicans Want Austerity Programs While Post 9/11 Intelligence Complex Co
2011-02-13 21:43:00 Republicans Want Austerity Programs While Post 9/11 Intelligence Complex Costs Skyrocket Republicans swept into the House of Representatives giving them control while handing the president a bitter pill to swallow. Sure, government spending has been out of control for a long time. Unfortunately, most spending is not for the benefit of the people. Well, regular people anyway....it would be foolhardy to believe that there aren't "special agencies within agencies" that operate under a cloak of secrecy and anonymity. And they add a....cost. |
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