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The Terrorist Next Door

By | 05.20.09 | 12:09 pm

The headline of a just-released Senate Republican Policy Committee document on what to do with Guantanamo Bay detainees:

Meet Your New Neighbor, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad?

There’s actually nothing in the 15-page paper suggesting that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad could be released into American society. There is, however, an exposition of the More…

First Poll Out of Florida: Crist Leads Rubio

By | 05.19.09 | 4:01 pm

Florida-based Ron Sachs Communications is out with a poll of the state’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, showing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) is the early leader for the open Senate seat and Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum narrowly ahead in the race to replace Crist.

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Republican Rebranding Effort Becomes as Unpopular as Nancy Pelosi

By | 05.19.09 | 12:58 pm

Some quick fun with the transitive property. Item one:

Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how [Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)] is handling her job as Speaker of the House in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, while 39 percent approve of her performance

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Poll: GOP Party Affiliation Shrinking Nearly Across the Board

By | 05.19.09 | 9:50 am

The results of a new Gallup poll show that between 2001 and 2009, the percentage of Americans who identify as “Republican” or “lean Republican” has declined in every measured demographic group, except those who identified as frequent church-goers.

The survey found the most dramatic drops in party More…

‘Tea Party’ Republicans Rebel Against National GOP

By | 05.14.09 | 1:41 pm

On March 11, when Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) entered the 2010 U.S. Senate race, Marco Rubio was in Washington. The former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives was ready for this moment, rumored for weeks, the entry of a Republican party dream candidate who threatened to push him out More…

Cornyn vs. Gates

By | 04.29.09 | 12:03 pm

The Republican Party is hurting for foreign policy and national security standard-bearers. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the GOP’s flagging Senate recruitment effort, is hurting for a measure of relevance. Cornyn’s scheduled speech to the American Enterprise Institute next Thursday, entitled “No Time To Cash In A More…

Live from the RNC Meeting: Nominating Ken Blackwell and Michael Steele

By | 01.30.09 | 11:08 am

I’m at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, where the party members will choose their next chairman. Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is the first candidate to be nominated (the order is random), and Gary Jones of the Virginia GOP rises for a sort of scattered nominating speech. More…

The Brilliant Mr. Gingrich

By | 01.21.09 | 9:54 am

Another day, another overheated statement from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich giving politically dubious marching orders to the Republicans he last led a decade ago.

Senate Republicans should make it clear that they will not permit a tax evader to become the secretary of the Treasury … it would

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Here Comes Mitt Romney

By | 01.15.09 | 10:32 am

Here at the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery hearing, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) pushes bipartisanship again: “President[-elect Barack] Obama recognized last week that the monopoly on ideas does not belong to one party.” He introduces former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), whose statement I am reading through.

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Poll: Americans Oppose Make-Believe Legislation

By | 01.14.09 | 6:36 pm

In addition to super-accurate presidential and local race polling, Rasmussen Reports traffics in polls that ask unusual questions that have been bouncing around conservative circles. In October 2008, for example, the company asked if Americans agreed with President Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address and the statement “Government is not More…