Republican Party losing on several ends
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Republican Party losing on several ends
Hattiesburg American
College-educated people check facts. With only a few clicks of a mouse it is easily determinable whether bama is a US citizen or if the 2nd Amendment is in danger as some on the right wing allege. These and other lies have pretty well blown the Republican Party’s credibility. In short by alienating just about everybody except elderly Southern white men they have no source of new voters. If all this wasn’t bad enough the right wing talking heads on radio and cable TV as well as some Republican members of Congress seem to be losing their sanity as well: entreating the racists and those obsessed with bama’s birth certificate in their base by using code words and phrases to tell fanatics what they want to hear while remaining just tame enough to keep the more tolerant and sane side of the Republican Party from deserting them. To those on the left and in the middle it appears that in addition to losing credibility and an election the Republican Party now seems to be losing its mind.
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Democrats’ Woes Won’t Cure GP
Wall Street Journal
In this case it means that even as Democrats hit rough seas Republicans shouldn’t forget that they still face significant deficiencies and structural problems of their own — problems that just a few months ago seemed almost insurmountable. The danger for Republicans right now in fact is that they become so entranced by the recent decline in President Barack bama’s fortunes that they lose sight of their own problems. A reminder of this challenge comes in the form of a long article in the forthcoming issue of Commentary magazine by two of the Republican Party’s deeper thinkers former Bush White House speechwriters Pete Wehner and Michael Gerson. They lay out what their article calls a “path to Republican revival” making the point that simply opposing bama initiatives isn’t sufficient to bring about such a revival. They also argue that being anti-government isn’t sufficient in a country where “it is patently clear that most Americans do not locate the source of all of today’s social ills in an overactive government. ” Instead they argue Republicans need to be seen as a party with new ideas for reforming “ossified” features of that very government particularly regulatory and tort systems that are behind the times and an education system that needs to make teachers both better paid and more accountable for their performance. Intriguingly Messrs.
IRS may join Ray Sansom probe
MiamiHerald.com
comp –> State Rep. Ray Sansom’s lavish use of his Republican Party-issued credit card has triggered a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service. The complaint also alleges political corruption and suggests the IRS investigate other GP officials who had American Express cards. An IRS spokesman said the agency does not confirm or deny investigations but said anonymous complaints can be filed. “Generally speaking getting something for nothing could have a tax effect” said spokesman Mike Dobzinski.
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