marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/30/2009
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Here is the basic diagnosis of what ails the Republican Party from Dr. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader. The internal organs are fine. No problem with the composition of the blood that pumps through the party's activist veins. The brain is top-notch -- Republican ideas are well ...
gallup.com - 1/28/2009
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gallup.com —
This is the first in a four-part series
on the "State of the States" to be released...
this week on Gallup.com. The series examines state-by-state differences in party affiliation, religiosity, employer hiring and letting go, and consumer confidence, ...
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State of the States: Political Party Affiliation
redstate.com - 1/29/2009
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redstate.com —
Last night the House GOP stood together, moderates
and conservatives, and opposed Barack Obama's socialist stimulus scheme....
Today, Mitch McConnell is going to address the Republican National Committee's winter meeting. According to Roll Call, in his ...
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Mitch McConnell Needs Our Help
dontgomovement.com - 1/29/2009
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dontgomovement.com —
Grow a Pair…and it appears we’re going to
have to give him some help. Operation Send a...
Pair The DontGo Movement is teaming up with RedState to launch the new “Send a Pair” campaign. The campaign is in place to help Mitch McConnell obtain some much ...
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Mitch McConnell Needs Some Balls
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... The decision throws into some disarray the administration's efforts to buy time to review individual detainee cases as part of its plan to close the U.S. military prison at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba. The Pentagon may now be forced to temporarily withdraw the charges against Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen of Yemeni descent.
Nashiri is facing arraignment on capital charges on Feb. 9, and Judge James Pohl, an Army colonel, said the case would go ahead.
GOP Needs A Better Sales Job - Or a Different Message? Or Both?
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GOP Needs A Better Sales Job - Or a Different Message? Or Both?
The deal here is that none of this language is new. Republicans have been saying these things for years. Back to the Gallup data: voters identify with ...
In Defense of Mitch McConnell
Ross Douthat —
Well, sort of. As you might expect, I agree with a lot of Ambinder's caustic remarks about the Minority Leader's recent "whither Republicanism" speech. But McConnell, like all GOP leaders, is in an awfully difficult spot at the moment: He's heading up a party that desperately needs a new direction, but whose most loyal and vocal members want nothing to do with anything that smacks of compromise or centrism. In those circumstances, the thing for Republicans in Washington to do is to talk an awful lot about how conservative principles don't need to change (and they don't, ...
Weekend Opinionator: Dead Right?
Opinionator —
... any special political prescience, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the turnover of 100 or so jobs at party headquarters is going to bring the G.O.P.’ers back in from the desert. So, what are conservatives talking about out in the sere wasteland? The party leadership, in the person of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, wants to maintain principles (assuming Marc Ambinder’s transcript is correct, which is a pretty safe assumption): The first task, in my view, is to find the voters who’ve left the party . As we do this, the temptation for some will be to run ...
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