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OPINION

 Fox Is Killing the GOP 


Aug 8, 09 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News and the Republican Party are locked into a cycle that will make a fortune for the network while dooming the party to further defeats, John Cook writes at Gawker. Fox viewership is up a whopping 45% over the last year as "frightened, paranoid, enraged, nativist zealots" ... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • GOP • Fox News • Republican Party • Fox • Glenn Beck • independent voters • cable news

OPINION

 GOP 'Flat-Out' Lying 
 About Health Care 

Republicans trying to scare US out of discussion

Aug 7, 09 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to health care reform, Republicans have become “political terrorists,” trying to scare Americans in an effort to block consensus, writes Steven Pearlstein for the Washington Post. “There is no credible way to look at what has been proposed and conclude that these will... More »

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health care • health care costs • Senate Republicans • Republican Party • health care reform • House Republicans • Obama administration • Congressional Republicans

Tampa Town
Hall on Health
Turns Ugly

Forum turns into
rowdy shouting,
shoving match

Aug 7, 09 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rowdy protesters turned a Tampa town hall meeting on health care reform into a near-riot last night, reports the St. Petersburg Times, whose reporter at the scene likened the atmosphere to a wrestling cage match. Local Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor was shouted down by audience members crying "Tyranny!"... More »

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Florida • Republican Party • Tampa • Glenn Beck • health care reform • town hall meeting

 New DNC Ad Slams 
 GOP's 'Angry Mobs' 



Dems use town hall protests to fire back

Aug 5, 09 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a new online ad, Democrats return fire at “angry mobs” driven by the Republican Party, the Huffington Post reports. “They lost the election. They lost on the Recovery Act, the budget and children’s health care,” says the ad. “Now, desperate Republicans and their well-funded... More »

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online advertising • mob • Republican Party • Democratic National Committee • political advertising • Democratic Party • town hall meeting • right wingers • protesters • President Obama • birther

Health Care Debate Readies for Road Trip

Democrats will spend recess targeting insurance companies

Aug 3, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the House already on break and the Senate readying for the August recess, the health care debate has moved to the court of public opinion, the New York Times reports. Both sides are launching campaign tours and waves of TV ads, with Democrats attacking the insurance industry and... More »

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health care • health insurance • House of Representatives • Republican Party • health care reform • political advertising • Democratic Party • David Axelrod • US Senate • Obama administration • political strategy

OPINION

 GOP Needs Its Brains Back 


Jul 31, 09 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican sycophants may think Sarah Palin’s resignation was brilliant, “but don’t kid yourself,” writes Robert Eisinger in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The GOP is in trouble.” The party has lost its intellectual coherence, and if it wants it back, it’s got to look beyond... More »

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Mitt Romney • Newt Gingrich • conservative • Rob Portman • Republican Party • John Sununu • academics • Sarah Palin • Mark Sanford • intellectual

(Newser) - “The opponents of reform are getting serious now,” Paul Waldman writes of the health care debate for the American Prospect, “and they've turned the volume on their megaphones of mendacity up to 11.” Herewith, some of the most cringe-inducing arguments against:
  • It's not broken:
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Congress • GOP • Republican Party • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • Paul Waldman • socialized medicine

Cash-Poor Bunning Won't Run in 2010

Ky. Republican blasts party for campaign 'to dry up my fundraising'

Jul 28, 09 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - An irate Jim Bunning said last night he won't run for a third term in the US Senate because his fellow Republicans "have done everything in their power to dry up my fundraising" amid pressure to step aside, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Bunning, 77, has focused his ire on... More »

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GOP • Kentucky • Mitch McConnell • Senate Republicans • Republican Party • re-election • US Senate • Jim Bunning • fundraising • Trey Grayson

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich lashed out today against President Obama’s health care plan, saying the nation should deal with crushing unemployment first, Politico reports. “America does not work if Americans are not working,” he said. “Getting Americans working should be the number one priority.” Gingrich called for... More »

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Congress • Newt Gingrich • Republican Party • unemployment • health care reform • job creation • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - The GOP has settled with Jackson Browne for using the left-leaning singer’s “Running on Empty” in campaign ads for John McCain in the 2008 election, Billboard reports. As part of the agreement—whose cash value is unknown—the GOP pledged to “respect and uphold the rights... More »

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John McCain • GOP • lawsuit • Republican Party • campaign advertising • Election 2008 • Jackson Browne • Running on Empty

(Newser) - The public is rapidly losing faith in President Obama, new polls show. His overall approval rating is below 60%—a USA Today/Gallup poll gives him 55%, putting him 10th among the 12 post-World War II presidents after six months in office. A Public Trust Monitor/Politico survey finds 54% trust Obama,... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Republican Party • Democratic Party • approval ratings • economy • poll numbers • Gallup poll • polls • President Obama

(Newser) - Ron Paul is disappointed in everybody, Politico reports. President Obama “became the peace candidate: ‘Yeah, we’re going to end that war in Iraq,’” the Texas congressman and erstwhile presidential candidate says. “But it’s not sincere.” And though Republican opposition to Obama’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Ron Paul • Republican Party • spending • Iraq war

(Newser) - As the 2010 election nears, GOP senatorial candidates are seeing a bump in campaign donations, the Washington Post reports. FEC filings show that in Florida, for instance, Charlie Crist pulled in $4.3 million in the second quarter, almost 4 times as much as his leading Democratic rival. Roy Blunt... More »

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Congress • Senate • Harry Reid • Republican Party • Charlie Crist • candidate • campaign fundraising • Election 2010

(Newser) - The Senate will soon debate the climate bill passed by the House, but “even if we do get a global-warming law for the first time in 2009, in a sense we’ve already failed,” write Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum on BuzzFlash. The issue’s 20 years old,... More »

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climate change • Congress • global warming • science • GOP • Republican Party • scientists • Waxman-Markey

(Newser) - Sarah Palin's resignation is the perfect opportunity for the Republican Party to leave the drama queen behind, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. She may be “a gifted retail politician,” but “she makes the party look stupid, a party of the easily manipulated." She... More »

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resignation • Republican Party • Peggy Noonan • Sarah Palin

(Newser) - Jeb Bush has a pretty dim view of President Obama, but he wouldn’t go so far as to call him names. When Tucker Carlson asks the former Florida governor if Obama is “a socialist” in an interview for Esquire, Bush demurs. “I don't know,” he... More »

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Bush administration • socialism • Republican Party • Jeb Bush • budget deficit • interview • Obama administration • President Obama

Palin's Not Job-Hunting, Lawyer Says

Soon-to-be-former Alaska governor focused on upcoming book

Jul 9, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has no plans to take a new job, her lawyer tells the Washington Post. Though the departing Alaska governor has received “hundreds of credible offers”—including a pitch for a gig as a talk-show host—she hasn’t pursued any of them except a previously announced... More »

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Alaska • Republican • Republican Party • talk show • governor • talk-show host • Sarah Palin • book deal • Republican governor • Thomas Van Flein

Economic Muck Gives GOP Hope for New Blood in 2010

Candidate recruitment up amid bad news for Dems

Jul 9, 09 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - As bad economic reports keep coming, Republicans are seeing candidate recruitment soar, the Hill reports. The party has had “probably its first good couple weeks in four years,” says an analyst, fueled in large part by rising unemployment and sinking stocks. Meanwhile, Democrats have lost top Senate candidate... More »

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Congress • stock market • recruitment • Republican Party • unemployment • Senate race • economy • Lisa Madigan • House race • Election 2010 • Mark Kirk • Kelly Ayotte

 Palin: Politically, 'If I Die, I Die' 

Slams critics in first interview since resignation

Jul 7, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Giving a round of TV interviews in her fishing gear, before heading out on a salmon-fishing excursion, soon-to-be-former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin slammed President Obama, her own party, and critical bloggers this morning—but wouldn’t say whether she plans to run for president. “Don’t know what the... More »

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Alaska • resignation • Republican Party • blogger • governor • Sarah Palin • interview • President Obama

Palin Called GOP Bigwigs Before Quitting

Phone records
reveal chats with Cheney, Giuliani

Jul 7, 09 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin spoke to several top Republicans in the weeks before her resignation, ABC News reports. An open-records request finds that in May, Palin was on the phone to Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani, and Charlie Crist, among others. A spokeswoman said that Cheney had been talking about an upcoming vacation... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Dick Cheney • Republican • resignation • Republican Party • Charlie Crist • governor • Sarah Palin

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