Sen. Ted Cruz may be new to the senate, but he’s apparently well-schooled in the mythical version of Saint Ronald Reagan. FactCheck takes a look at a recent statement by him that stands history completely on its head in claiming that Reagan reduced spending and debt.
Category Archive: Politics
Mar 29 2013
Bauer: GOP Will Die If It’s Not Just Like Me
With the Republican National Committee apparently urging more moderation on social issues like gay rights and reproductive rights, the wingnuts are furiously pushing for the GOP to instead become even more like them — never mind that younger voters find what they believe in horrifying. Gary Bauer tells Mike Huckabee that the party will die …
Mar 28 2013
The Republican Reason Caucus
A new group has formed, the Republican Reason Caucus, which says its goal is to “Influence public policy in a way that respects sound science, the separation of church and state, and constitutionally limited government that upholds the liberties and equal treatment by the law of all individuals.” Sounds good so far. And I like …
Mar 27 2013
The Gingrich-Santorum Ticket. Err, Santorum-Gingrich Ticket.
Joshua Green reports in Business Week that during last year’s presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum very nearly formed a “unity ticket” to defeat Mitt Romney, but there was one problem: they couldn’t agree on which one would be at the head of the ticket.
Mar 25 2013
Rand Paul and Young Voters
As the Republican party tries to figure out how to appeal to the growing demographic groups that they’ve lost by wide margins in the past, Nate Cohn looks at whether Rand Paul can help them build a bridge to such voters. And there are some issues where he differs enough from the usual Republican presidential …
Mar 22 2013
SCOTUS Equality Ruling Good for Republicans?
Josh Barro makes a very interesting and compelling argument that if the Supreme Court ruled that there was a federal constitutional right of gay people to marriage equality, the big winners politically would be the Republicans. I think he’s probably right:
Mar 21 2013
Borowitz: Republicans Stop Talking to Their Children
Andy Borowitz has his usual hilarious take on the story about Sen. Rob Portman changing his position on marriage equality because of his son coming out of the closet. His fellow Republicans are taking heed and learning a clear lesson from Portman’s experience:
Mar 21 2013
The GOP Looks In the Mirror
The Republican National Committee appointed several prominent Republicans to do a post-mortem analysis of the 2012 election to figure out why they lost. The report was based on more than 2600 interviews, focus groups and discussions and the conclusions are both obvious and bound to exacerbate the ongoing civil war within the party. In short, …
Mar 18 2013
Why Republicans Can’t Reach Out to Black Voters
One of the panel discussions at CPAC last week focused on how the Republican Party could more effectively reach out to minority voters. It featured K. Carl Smith of the Frederick Douglass Republicans, but one of the audience members, who claims to be a descendant of Jefferson Davis, showed exactly why the GOP has such …
Mar 17 2013
FL. Lt. Gov. Resigns
Jennifer Carroll, the lt. governor of Florida, has stepped down from that position due to an ongoing investigation into a non-profit organization that she worked for and did commercials for. This is the same woman, you might recall, who was accused of being a lesbian and said that women who look like she does aren’t …
Mar 15 2013
Will Makes Bork Up to Look Pretty
Robert Bork is dead and George Will is working overtime to make him look a lot better than the facts could possibly justify. In a recent Washington Post column, Will credulously repeats Bork’s absurd claim that by firing the special prosecutor during Watergate he was “protecting” the investigation of Nixon’s crimes.
Mar 15 2013
FDIC Settling Bank Fraud Cases in Secret
The LA Times has a story that really highlights both the necessity of the Freedom of Information Act and how good investigative journalists can use it to bring transparency to an important subject. They report that the FDIC has been settling major bank fraud cases in secret rather than making an example out of those …
Mar 13 2013
Paul Ryan’s Bizarre Reasoning
Rep. Paul Ryan went on Fox News on Sunday morning to talk about his new budget proposal with Chris Wallace. That proposal includes repealing the Affordable Care Act, which Wallace pointed out simply is not going to happen. And that led to this very weird argument from Ryan:
Mar 12 2013
President Clinton Calls for Overturn of DOMA
In a move that I doubt has ever happened before, former President Clinton is calling on the Supreme Court to overturn a law that he supported and signed only 17 years ago. Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, but now he explains in a Washington Post op-ed that he felt it was necessary at …
Mar 12 2013
Carl Levin Announces Retirement
Sen. Carl Levin, who has represented Michigan in the Senate for as long as I’ve been politically aware, has announced that he will not seek reelection in 2014 and will retire; he will be 80 by the time of the 2014 election. In a statement he said:
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