Category: Republicans
"With six months before November mid-term elections, Representative Eric Cantor urged US voters to back Republicans at 'a pivotal time for America to restore its credibility by pursuing peace through strength.'"
Forty-two percent (42%) of Republicans say they are part of the movement, compared to nine percent (9%) of Democrats and 24% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Mainstream voters view themselves as Tea Party members, while 84% of politicians say they have no ties to the movement. MORE
"Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens."
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are bristling with the news that Republicans have decided now is the time to suck up to Wall Street. The Democrats are acting as if they want to punish everyone in the financial services industry, including the innocent, while the Republicans seem to want to protect everyone on Wall Street, including the guilty. How about just punishing the guilty? MORE
"Mr. Brennan is a special case: his arrogance and flat-out fibs about the Abdulmutallab case have created a roadblock of antagonism between the White House and congressional Republicans."
"Republican lawmakers are denying a charge made by top White House counterterrorism official John Brennan that they were briefed about -- and did not object to -- the decision to offer full American constitutional rights to accused Detroit bo Read more »
Charles Krauthammer opines: "This being a democracy, don’t the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don’t they understand Massachusetts? Well, they understand it through a prism of two cherished axioms: (1) The people are stupid, and (2) Republicans are bad. Result? The dim, led by the malicious, vote incorrectly."
"President Barack Obama is seeking increased funding for nuclear weapons research and security programs next year . . . . Greg Mello . . . called the budget 'a complete surrender to Senate Republicans,' who have argued that stockpile reductions must be accompanied by a modernized nuclear weapons complex."
