Category Archives: Republicans

Planned Parenthood receives record amount of taxpayer support

Posted on January 8th, 2013

Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $542 million in taxpayer support in fiscal 2012, marking a steady increase in government funding despite Republican-led efforts at the state and federal levels to cut off that stream. The funding figures were included in the abortion provider’s annual report released Monday. The numbers showed roughly 45 percent of [...]

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Return of the Real Obama

Posted on January 4th, 2013

The president is dedicated to the expansion of the welfare state. By Charles Krauthammer       NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE   The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. President Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives. After which, you might expect him to pivot to his [...]

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The Superb Mitt Romney

Posted on January 2nd, 2013

By: Jay Nordlinger    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE About 20 years ago, I often said, “You can say anything about Clarence Thomas. No matter how vile, false, or even racist, you can say it about Thomas, and get away with it. The culture permits it. It’s open season on Clarence Thomas.” Many years later, I said something [...]

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Why they want to go over the cliff

Posted on December 28th, 2012

  By JONATHAN ALLEN   Washington’s Democratic and Republican power brokers have sent the message to the nation that going over the fiscal cliff is a worst-case scenario. But they’re not acting that way, not at all. Instead, many of them have calculated that it’s better to go over the cliff — at least temporarily [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on December 14th, 2012

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Henninger: Obama’s Ruinous Course

Posted on December 6th, 2012

    Where in his career did Barack Obama ever learn the art of the political deal? Nowhere.     A wise judge once wrote in dissent that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Let us now extend that wisdom to presidential elections. Barack Obama says his election victory is a mandate to pursue [...]

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GOP Deficit Plan Irks Conservatives

Posted on December 5th, 2012

  Discord Complicates Negotiating Position of Boehner, Who Punished Four House Members; Obama Calls for Higher Taxes   WASHINGTON—Conservatives on Tuesday took aim at House Speaker John Boehner’s deficit-reduction proposal in the fiscal cliff talks, a dispute that was aggravated by Mr. Boehner’s decision to remove some conservatives from prized committees. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., [...]

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Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio’s makeovers

Posted on December 4th, 2012

By MIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI   Marco Rubio doesn’t want to be the “Hispanic candidate.” Paul Ryan doesn’t want to be the “austerity guy.” Both want to run for president, or keep the option wide open. So each is trying to change his own image — and with it, the Republican Party’s — starting [...]

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Charles Krauthammer: Cliff-jumping with Barack

Posted on December 2nd, 2012

By Charles Krauthammer   Why are Republicans playing the Democrats’ game that the “fiscal cliff” is all about taxation?   House Speaker John Boehner already made the preemptive concession of agreeing to raise revenue. But the insistence on doing so by eliminating deductions without raising marginal rates is now the subject of fierce Republican infighting. [...]

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Elected, but Still Campaigning

Posted on November 27th, 2012

  Obama Steps Up Effort to Rally Support for Fiscal Plan, Will Meet With CEOs     WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is ramping up the White House’s postelection effort to generate public support for his preferred package of tax increases and spending cuts. Mr. Obama, while standing firm on his viewpoint during talks with Republicans, called [...]

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