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20 Apr 2012, 5:52 am
Though most GOP senators backed the anti-profiling bill, Canton Republican Kevin Witkos, a 28-year veteran of that community’s police force, argued that while profiling is wrong, the measure was flawed. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 5:30 am
First, they try to get the GOP-run legislature to pass a law prohibiting counties and cities from passing wage theft ordinances. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 9:01 pm
This has a double benefit: Incumbents and GOP insider choices are receiving financial support, while the party’s hands are kept clean, as the national party organs do not have to step in to fight their conservative base.” [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 2:53 pm
As The Hill wrote: Democrats contend that moving control of the bureau’s budget to Congress was less about oversight and more about GOP attempts to stifle it. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 10:02 am
House Republican leaders continued to push a medical malpractice reform bill this week that caps non-economic damages at $250,000 and limits lawyer contingency fees, arguing that it would save taxpayers $41 billion and prevent defense spending cuts. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 7:25 pm
About two weeks ago, the WTO's Appellate Body ruled that US ban on clove and certain other flavored cigarettes violated WTO rules. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 10:30 am
For anyone who thinks that Wisconsin's propensity for unpleasant politics is a new thing that resulted from the GOP taking over all three branches of Wisconsin's government last year, I bring you the sad story of how Wisconsin got its official state dog.In a Slate.com story about the defeat of legislation in Kansas to adopt an official state dog, I noticed this tidbit. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 4:35 am
"GOP senators sue Obama over sham labor board nominees" -- Washington Examiner In a double-barrelled blast at President Obama, Senate Republicans today moved to join a lawsuit challenging the White House’s Christmas “recess appointment” of National Labor Relations Board members even though the Senate was technically in session. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 3:40 am
"ANALYSIS - RIGHT TO WORK: Battle lines have been drawn over law's chances in Michigan this year" -- The News-Herald For all the words spoken thus far in the battle over right to work in Michigan, the ultimate showdown may be one between GOP-sponsored legislation vs. a union-backed constitutional amendment — even though Gov. [read post]
14 Apr 2012, 2:33 pm
Despite the protests of a certain "Son of Detroit," the de facto GOP nominee for president, who would have "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," and now derides the auto bailout as "crony capitalism," maintaining a base level of domestic manufacturing is an important element of our national security. [read post]
14 Apr 2012, 1:05 pm
Maybe there are subsets of independent voters who share the anti-environmental views of the GOP base, but it seems dubious that the positions espoused in the Republican primary and by the GOP caucus in Congress are going to be big vote-getters. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 7:38 am
But the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature drew up new maps that favored the GOP in three of the four new districts. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 2:14 pm
In the latest example, Nevada GOP Senator Dean Heller’s misunderstanding of the Supreme Court’s coincidentally-named D.C. v. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 6:18 am
The GOP amendments would have retained the death penalty for a variety of offenses, including terrorism, killing cops, prison guards and residents during home invasions. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 10:19 am
Gay Marriage All remaining GOP candidates oppose gay marriage and agree that marriage should be reserved for relationships between a man and a woman. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 9:51 am
With Rick Santorum out of the presidential race, Mitt Romney can unofficially turn his attention to campaigning against President Barack Obama. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 9:22 am
He’s a Republican governor in a state where members of the GOP run both the House of Representatives and the Senate. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 6:04 am
The weekly column from Clark Judge:What Now: the GOP Race and the Election to Come? [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 3:47 pm
” And it wasn’t that long ago when the GOP called for an inspector general watchdog to police the conduct of federal judges. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 10:21 am
" The core of the Randian worldview, as absorbed by the modern GOP, is a belief that the natural market distribution of income is inherently moral, and the central struggle of politics is to free the successful from having the fruits of their superiority redistributed by looters and moochers. [read post]
