Rudy Giuliani’s Obama critique puts 2016ers in a bind
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who is contemplating a presidential run, tried to strike that balance in his comments to The Associated Press that while he had “no doubt” Obama loves…
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Jeb Bush’s ‘Big Tent’ Welcomes Iraq War Screw-Ups
This week, the 2016 campaign takes us back to Iraq as the media grapples with the emerging foreign policy philosophy and advisory team of Jeb Bush. The potential presidential candidate…
Rand Paul To Declare Presidential Run In Early April: Report
Senator Rand Paul is eyeing April 7 as the day he will announce his plans to run for president, people close to him said, a step that would position him…
Gene Alday, Mississippi Lawmaker, Says Blacks Don’t Work And Get ‘Crazy Welfare Checks’
A Mississippi lawmaker says racist comments recently attributed to him were taken out of context and supposed to be off the record. State Rep. Gene Alday, a Republican, told The…
Camp Clinton super PAC detente — and a Huntsman 2016 run?
1. A 2016 Huntsman run in Utah? Mike Lee was proof in 2010 that the tea party movement was growing from protest movement to political force. Lee stunned the GOP…
Conservative Politicians Abroad Seem More Accepting of Evolution
Beliefs By MARK OPPENHEIMER On Wednesday, in an interview in London, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a potential Republican presidential candidate, sidestepped the question of whether he believed in evolution….
GOP Consultant Pleads Guilty In First Super PAC Coordination Conviction
WASHINGTON — A Republican Party political operative pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally coordinating with a super PAC while he ran a congressional campaign in the 2012 election. Tyler Harber, 34,…
Why Scott Walker’s Views On Evolution Are Totally Relevant
Scott Walker doesn’t want reporters to ask him about his position on evolution. That’s one more reason why they should. Walker, the newly re-elected governor of Wisconsin, is a front-runner…
Flood Of Abortion-Restricting Bills Filed In State Legislatures Following GOP Sweep
Republican state legislators have been able to expedite one of their top policy priorities — restricting access to abortion — given the historic gains they made in last year’s midterm…
Funding Is Still Elusive for Homeland Security
WASHINGTON — Republicans who have been so disciplined in their opposition to President Obama are now finding themselves badly splintered over how to keep the Department of Homeland Security operating…
Rush Limbaugh Thinks He Knows The Real Reason Jon Stewart Is Leaving ‘The Daily Show’
Jon Stewart is leaving “The Daily Show” after more than 15 years, which, according to Rush Limbaugh, is good news because he can no longer destroy the Republican name. –…
RNC pays tribute to record-setting black Republicans
The event recognized Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the first black senator elected from the South since Reconstruction (in 2014 he was elected to the same seat he was…
Republican candidates face the curse of London
Republican Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana traveled to the United Kingdom recently to try to burnish their foreign policy credentials. Next up is Wisconsin…
Want to host a victory party in Des Moines? Aim for 30%
In none of the latest crop of surveys did the leader of the poll top 20% support among likely Republican primary voters or caucusgoers. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker topped the…
Republican Presidential Contenders Are All Alone On The Anti-Vaccine Train
WASHINGTON — While Republican presidential contenders are waffling on the issue of vaccinations, a bipartisan group of senators sought on Tuesday to squash bunk medical science that has led parents…
Oklahoma Considers Gas Chamber For Future Executions
With executions in Oklahoma on hold amid a constitutional review of its lethal injection formula, Republican legislators are pushing to make Oklahoma the first state in the nation to allow…
Longtime Iowa Governor Says He Is Not Likely To Run Again
Gov. Terry Branstad (R-Iowa) said in an interview Monday he is unlikely to run for seventh term in 2018 and already preparing to support his deputy, Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds,…
‘Get your government hands off my Obamacare’
That’s almost exactly what happened in 2009 and 2010 when conservatives fought President Obama’s health care proposal by warning that it would require cuts to Medicare. In recent months, we’ve…
Rand Paul Seeks Middle (Sorry, Dad)
DES MOINES — When Ron Paul ran for president in 2008 and 2012, his rallies were decidedly unpretentious affairs, appropriately suited to the scrappy outsider nature of his campaign. His…
Ted Cruz Says No Need Right Now For American Ground Troops To Fight ISIS
One Republican criticism of President Barack Obama’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State has been that the president has hampered his efforts by ruling out the use of U.S. ground…
Rand Paul invokes libertarian roots with Iowa kick-off event
The Kentucky Republican had a rough week but found a friendly audience Friday night headlining an “Audit the Fed” rally at Jasper Winery in Des Moines, an event packed with…
DHS funding bill stalls in Senate over immigration
READ: Key senators say they might boycott Netanyahu In fact, a third vote on the same question is scheduled for Thursday and the same outcome is likely. One reason for…
Virginia GOP Rescinds Support For Equal Rights Amendment
WASHINGTON — The fate of a bill calling for Virginia to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution remains in flux after the state Senate’s Republican leadership undid…
Congressman’s ‘Downton Abbey’ office
It’s an almost too-perfect metaphor. This week brought news that a Republican member of Congress has decked out his office in the style of the mansion in “Downton Abbey,” the…
Chris Christie Is Now Waging 23 Court Battles To Keep State Documents Secret
There’s a lot the New Jersey Republican doesn’t want you to know. Read the whole story at Mother Jones
Defense Secretary Nominee Looks to Send Senate Panel Strong Message
WASHINGTON — Ashton B. Carter on Wednesday will assert himself as an advocate of forceful yet prudent use of American power overseas when he faces a newly Republican-controlled Armed Services…
Rand Paul: I Did Not Aay Vaccinations Cause Mental Disorders
Republican Sen. Rand Paul now says he thinks vaccinations are safe. – Paul, an ophthalmologist, says he’s had his own children immunized.
House votes – again – to repeal Obamacare
This latest vote marked the 67th time the House has voted to entirely repeal, defund or change some provisions of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Republican aides emphasize…
GOP Party Chairman Really Doesn’t Want To Talk About Abolishing The IRS
WASHINGTON — It’s prominently featured on the Republican Party’s website, with its own page and even a petition for the cause: “Stand With The GOP And Fight To Abolish the…
Jeff Flake, a Conservative, Emerges as Ally in Obama’s Push for Ties With Cuba
WASHINGTON — Two days before President Obama ended a half-century of diplomatic estrangement with Cuba, his national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, asked Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona to be…