Rand Paul: “The GOP Of Old Has Grown Stale And Moss-Covered” – RealClearPolitics

03/14/2013 By

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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY):  “The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don’t think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere. If we’re going to have a Republican party that can win, liberty needs to be the backbone of the GOP. We must have a message that is broad, our vision must be broad, and that vision must be based on freedom.

There are millions of Americans, young and old, native and immigrant, black, white and brown, who simply seek to live free, to practice a religion, free to choose where their kids go to school, free to choose their own health care, free to keep the fruits of their labor, free to live without government constantly being on their back. I will stand for them. I will stand for you. I will stand for our prosperity and our freedom, and I ask everyone who values liberty to stand with me. Thank you. God bless America.”

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Cruz to Republicans: ‘Stand on Principle’; Energizes Crowd at Awards Dinner

03/14/2013 By

Ted CruzArticle authored by Ben Shapiro and appeared on Breitbart.  Article is courtesy of breitbart.com

On Wednesday night, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) electrified the crowd at the Coalitions for America’s Weyrich Awards Dinner, named after founder Paul Weyrich. He led off his speech with a dismissive reference to Senator John McCain’s characterization of him as a “wacko bird.” Looking at the crowd, Cruz said, “Birds of a feather flock together.” [Read more...]

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Republican Leaders Get Just 7 Minutes in ‘Sequester Meeting’ with Obama – Washington Times

02/28/2013 By Leave a Comment

Obama Bored-1Article authored by Dave Boyer and appeared in The Washington Times.

Never let it be said that President Obama has failed to spend time with  Republican leaders in seeking an alternative to automatic budget cuts that are  due to hit most federal departments Friday. On Wednesday, for example, the  president gave GOP lawmakers as much as  seven minutes, a rare face-to-face encounter that the White  House described as a “meeting.”

The White House’s characterization of this  momentary huddle at the Capitol as a meeting illuminates Mr. Obama’s strategy in  dealing with Republicans on the budget cuts and other fiscal deadlines. [Read more...]

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A GOP Makeover: Joining Twitter is Not Enough – The Washington Post

02/26/2013 By

Twitter-1Article authored by Stuart Stevens and appeared in The Washington Post.  Article is courtesy of washingtonpost.com

Stuart Stevens was the lead strategist of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

There seems to be a desire to blame Republicans’ electoral difficulties and the Romney campaign’s loss on technological failings. I wish this were the problem, because it would be relatively easy to fix. But it’s not.

The “tech gap” is being pushed by some as a larger indication of the issue of Republicans being seen as old and out of date. The latest piling on was a piece by my old Austin pal Robert Draper in the New York Times magazine. Draper breathlessly reports that there are young, technology-focused Republican operatives who feel that the Republican Party should be doing more (which we should) and that, horrors of horrors, I chose not to tweet during the campaign. (For the record, I’ve had a Twitter account since shortly after the service launched and follow it perhaps a bit too obsessively.) [Read more...]

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Why President Obama is Directly to Blame for the Budget Impasse and “The Sequester”

02/21/2013 By 3 Comments

Obama is obstructionistUnless Congress acts, in one week’s time, a new federal policy may kick-in. It called “the Sequester.” Most of us have heard of it by now and it’s probably because of all the fear-mongering and finger-pointing.

The looming spending cuts would include $85 billion in across-the-board cuts this year, with another $1.1 trillion coming over the next decade. Should the sequester take effect, the U.S. military budget would be slashed nearly half a trillion dollars over the next 10 years and border security, law enforcement, aviation safety and many other programs would all have diminished resources.

Each side of the political aisle is blaming the other for this fiscal dilemma. [Read more...]

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Pentagon Informs Congress of Plans to Furlough 800K Civilian Employees – The Hill

02/20/2013 By

The PentagonArticle authored by Jeremy Herb and appeared on The Hill.  Article is courtesy of thehill.com

The Pentagon notified Congress on Wednesday it will be furloughing its civilian  workforce of 800,000 employees if sequestration goes into effect March 1.

Defense officials have warned lawmakers that sequestration will devastate the  military and lead to a hollow force, but the civilian furloughs will be one of  the first major impacts felt by the across-the-board cuts. [Read more...]

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Republicans to Dems: ‘Your Policies Are Creating Poverty, Dependency, and Chronic Unemployment’ – The Weekly Standard

02/12/2013 By

Republicans vs. DemocratsArticle authored by Daniel Halper and appeared on The Weekly Standard.  Article is courtesy of weeklystandard.com

In a memo sent to fellow Republicans, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama outlines how he plans to change the terms of the budget debate with Democrats. The memo outlines how the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee plans to bring the fight directly to Democrats.

Sessions is, in his words, is planning a response to the Democrats’ “slander” on budget issues. That is, he does not believe it is accurate to say, as Democrats do, that Republicans don’t care about the poor and don’t care about “the most vulnerable Americans.” As Sessions writes, “The White House has succeeded to an alarming degree in framing the fiscal debate as a choice between fiscal restraint and compassion. Reductions in government are, in the White House narrative, inherently harmful; therefore, any approach that mitigates spending cuts through tax hikes is always the morally preferable approach.” [Read more...]

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Poll: Many Say Let Illegal Immigrants Stay in US

01/23/2013 By

UndocumentedArticle auth0red by Erica Werner and Dennis Junius and appeared on AP News.

WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 6 in 10 Americans now favor allowing illegal immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens, a major increase in support driven by a turnaround in Republicans’ opinions after the 2012 elections.

The finding, in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, comes as the Republican Party seeks to increase its meager support among Latino voters, who turned out in large numbers to help-re-elect President Barack Obama in November. [Read more...]

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The nation is paralzyed by political gridlock! Maybe not?

12/31/2012 By Leave a Comment

As we come out of the 2012 election and prep for President Obama’s second inauguration, its a good time to address the notion that the nation is divided.  Its pretty common today to hear “our political system is broken” or to hear and use the phrase “political gridlock in Washington.”  In fact, when Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. credit rating, they gave two supposed primary reasons for downgrading the country: the nation’s fiscal path and its broken political system.  Hogwash.  Clearly the good people at S&P need a history lesson.

Political partisanship is not new to our country, nor are other democracies immune to political “gridlock.”

» Consider that in the 19th century, there were two separate instances of congressman being beaten with a cane by another congressman, one such incident taking place right on the Senate floor.  And, even worse, consider the deaths of at least 10 American politicians due to duels with their political adversaries. [Read more...]

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