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Archive for the ‘Republican Party’ Category
November 22nd, 2010
November 22nd, 2010
Category: Republican Party
Mark Kleiman has had a number of posts wondering why moderate Republicans don’t bolt their party. To paraphrase what he says, with no small amount of frustration, when will the rest of the moderates (along with science-loving, principled conservatives) wake up and realize their party is gone and what remains doesn’t represent their views and [...]
November 18th, 2010
You can be a believer in making climate policy based on science, or you can be a Republican. You cannot be both.
November 18th, 2010
Republicans have told the Big Lie for 30 years, and are finding it hard now to say, “Sorry folks: just kidding.”
November 12th, 2010
Category: Conservatism, Defense and national security, Economics, Financial crises, Foreign Policy, Republican Party
The double legacyof Bush Republicanism ain hastening American decline.
November 9th, 2010
The GOP has promised its base that it will defund the individual mandate, and it has promised health insurance companies that it will strengthen the mandate. Something has to give.
October 13th, 2010
There are two houses of Congress — and this year, that means that there are two different midterms.
October 11th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Campaign 2012, Republican Party, US healthcare reform, Watching Conservatives
America’s health insurance companies seem to believe, along with Republicans, that they can screw up health care reform and get the voters to blame the Democrats for it. Maybe they’re right.
