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Opinion What the Tea Party Wants. Also: Video Send-up on ‘Why I’m Voting Republican’
When the Tea Partiers say they want to “take our country back,” what is the prior state they want to restore it to? Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson wrote a smart piece today pointing out that their rhetoric is directed against Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive reforms. It follows that they want…
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The Schmooze This Is What Happens When a GOP House Candidate Dresses as a Nazi
Here’s a question that’s popped up one time too many in the last few years: Why, 65 years after the fall of Nazi Germany, do some people still think it’s conscionable to don Nazi uniforms? And why, for goodness sakes, would they do so if they have political aspirations? Associating with Nazism is career suicide,…
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The Schmooze Dan Senor: In or Out?
I’ve been finishing up work on a profile for this week’s paper on Dan Senor, who is reportedly getting ready to run for a U.S. Senate seat from New York. Multiple sources have been reporting that the former Bush administration appointee is set to throw his hat in the ring against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the…
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Opinion Republicans on Obama: 24% Say He ‘May Be the Anti-Christ’ (Harris Poll)
Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house: Author and former Giuliani speechwriter John Avlon posts, in a new blog post at TheDailyBeast.com, offers some mind-boggling numbers from new Harris poll. I’ll let him speak for himself: On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama:…
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Life Eric Cantor to the Forward: Administration Is ‘Bullying Israel’
The lone Jewish Republican in Congress is taking the Obama administration to task over its latest spat with the Israeli government. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor phoned White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on March 15 — asking him to convey to his bosses the message that it is time to ease pressure on…
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News Eric Cantor to Run for House Whip
Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House, is said to be running for House GOP whip position. Politico reports that Cantor is making calls to line up support from colleagues for the position, which is the second highest Republican leadership
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News Pa. Republicans Fire Strategist Over Obama ‘Smear’ E-Mail
The Pennsylvania Republican State Party has fired a strategist over an e-mail sent to Jewish voters that warns a vote for Barack Obama would be a “tragic mistake” with parallels to the “ignored warning signs of the 1930s and 1940s.” The e-mail, which a GOP spokesman says was sent without the party’s authorization, falsely warns…
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News ‘Independent’ Lieberman on the Synagogue Tour for McCain
Campaigning as a “Democrat who was re-elected as independent now here to support a Republican for president,” U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman told Jewish voters in southeastern Pennsylvania that he remains convinced that Republican John McCain is the best candidate to lead the country even as the focus of the election has shifted from national security…
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