-
When Will Conservatives Get Over the 'Liberal Media' Myth?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentIt's the perfect recipe for conservative apoplexy: On the one hand you have the Politico reporting that journalists are dissatisfied with their access to the president and, on the other, you have Chuck Todd saying the media isn't liberal.
-
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Tea Party Republicans, and the Art of the Smear
Tweet Share on Facebook February 21, 2013 CommentTexas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has gotten a lot of grief lately, and for good reason. His speculation about whether Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel received secret payments from North Korea was the kind of unsubstantiated smear that takes your breath away. But in all the ballyhoo over Cruz something else seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle: the extent to which the unsubstantiated smear has become stock in trade for Tea Party senators.
-
Opposition to the Violence Against Women Act Only Hurts GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook February 14, 2013 CommentTuesday night was supposed to be another big step in the Republican rebranding, but it didn't really turn out that way. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio proved more Aqua- than Superman. And Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the dark horse darling, turned into something of a snooze inducing sleep sheep.
-
Karl Rove's Right and the Tea Party Is Wrong
Tweet Share on Facebook February 7, 2013 CommentWhen I worked on the Hill we called it the circular firing squad. It was the tendency of some Democrats to go flying off in every direction at the worst possible moment, setting aside larger strategic goals to pursue individual ideological ones. It was incredibly frustrating, but if the American public wanted to keep sending Dennis Kucinich to the Hill there was little you could do about it.
-
Ronald Reagan Is the GOP's Problem, Not Its Solution
Tweet Share on Facebook February 1, 2013 CommentSo the Republican Party’s going through some soul searching. And after the results of the 2012 elections that seems like a sensible thing to do.
But so far most of the changes contemplated tend toward the cosmetic—we have to change our “tone,” they say, or the “face” of the party. And that’s all well and good. But one is left to wonder: Is there something going on here that requires plumbing a little deeper into the Republican depths?
I think the answer is yes.
