Tea Party Minority Outreach Project Starts in Texas
“In order for conservatives to win elections in the future, we are going to have to aggressively, unrelentingly, without ceasing bring diversity into the base. It is a crisis.”
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“In order for conservatives to win elections in the future, we are going to have to aggressively, unrelentingly, without ceasing bring diversity into the base. It is a crisis.”
“I would be shocked if we even sent them an email letting them know we passed a map. I think we’ll just take it to the courts.”
I thought it was time to write something on presidential politics, as the Republican field shakes down and the remaining candidates, along with a few still lurking in the wings, will soon get even more
Lugar said Monday that he would vote for Ryan’s budget. “I support the creative thinking … expressed by the Congressman,” Lugar said. “Creativity is going to be required to save Medicare.”
“We believe that we should easily pass Department of Justice or district court muster without too much difficulty,” said state Rep. Alan Clemmons, chairman of the Election Laws Subcommittee.
Without earmarks, lobbyists are focusing on promoting policy decisions that could lead to the funding of their clients’ projects and inserting language into grant programs that will give them priority
An embodiment of wasteful redundancy, the engine did not go down without a fight, dying despite the tireless backing of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and support from 40 of the 87 freshman Republicans
He shoots Ellsworth — the guy without the gun. And the second barrel, he misses. A wiser person would dispatch the guy with the gun first.
“There aren’t many options for doing stimulus without increasing the deficit.”
“I can give you three instances of people who would be excluded in that who ended up not getting appointments because of an FBI investigation,” he added.
“It’s standing up for American manufacturing,” Brown said Wednesday of the fight. “So I want to help Sessions fight on it.”
I could hoot at the hypocrisy, too, even as I wish we could tone down the rhetoric and find a way to actually have — I shudder to use the hackneyed phrase, but will — an “adult conversation” about
But his transition to party leader has been rocky, as the outsider Republican remains without a base and largely unknown to GOP activists following a 2010 campaign that eschewed traditional grass-roots
“‘I wish you weren’t around anymore.’ ‘I hate you.’ ‘If you drop dead tomorrow I’d enjoy it,’” Gainer said. “That’s not a crime. But it might be a sliver of a dot we’d want to connect.”
“This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country
“And I think we respect each other for that.” “We have personal relationships,” McInturff said of the GOP consulting community.
He will likely rely on an optimistic tone, without the anger that so many Republicans exhibit when they are discussing President Barack Obama’s performance.
“I would hope so, and I think we will,” Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“When Senator Ensign resigned, he said, and I quote ‘I have not violated any law, any rule or a standard of conduct’ unquote.
“While many have accused Mitt Romney of being duplicitous, he could not have been more plain spoken than when he said in 2008 ‘I like mandates.’”