Tag: republican party
What social science has to say about racism in the Republican Party
Max Ehrenfreund of the Washington Post has an absolutely excellent piece about the expanding body of research by psychologists, economists and political scientists focusing on the issue of racism within the base of the Republican Party. The same argument has been applied to almost every recent presidential election: President Ronald…
What the GOP Needs To Do Next:
After the most recent ridiculous statements coming out of megalomaniac Donald Trump…the other Republican candidates and elected officials are starting to push back a little bit. And Mr. Trump isn’t used to that so today he was AGAIN threatening to run an independent campaign. What does the GOP need to…
Roger Simon: GOP not dissimilar from a clown car
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/attention-reince-priebus-send-in-the-clown-cars-95450.html?hp=l1.This is a great read… Before the clown car became a metaphor, there were real cars full of clowns. Ridiculously small, they were driven into the circus ring and then an impossibly large number of clowns piled out of them. I always thought the clown car involved a trapdoor in…
Today’s GOP: drifting towards irrelevance?
This is absolutely worth a read… “Their rigidity is killing them. It’s either holy purity, or you are anathema,” Tom Korologos, a premier Republican lobbyist and the ambassador to Belgium under George W. Bush, said in a phone interview. “Too many ideologues have come in. You don’t win by what…
“…an environment that’s not just polarized but tribal…”
The modern Republican party has become so severely dysfunctional that it is destroying the body politic. From a discussion by Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein at U.C. Berkeley on May 18, 2012: Norm Ornstein: And let me just add, in a personal note, Tom and I have had great success as partners…
Republican Derailment Syndrome
Paul Krugman’s OpEd today succinctly lays bare the catastrophic derailment of the modern Republican party.
Democracy: Only a Faint Echo to the GOP
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4 Horatio: He waxes desperate with imagination. Marcellus:Let’s follow. ‘Tis not fit thus to obey him. Horatio:Have after. To what issue will this come? Marcellus:Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Horatio:Heaven will direct it. Marcellus: Nay, let’s follow him. [Exeunt.] Something is rotten in the GOP…
Tea Party Intruders!
Tuesday we collectively turn in our signatures guaranteeing the recall of Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. The official number of signatures needed is 540,208. I have heard rumblings of turning in a number far beyond this. The Blood, sweat and tears of thousnds of Wisconsinites who went…
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