Aug 6, 2009 – "Absent huge Democratic mistakes in the next few years, the Republican Party's road back could very well be a long one," said Simon … The National Republican Senatorial Committee, chaired by Sen. … challengers. -- Illinois: Republican odds of filling Obama's former Senate seat improved significantly when popular state Attorney…

Aug 6, 2009 – reporting that Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who recently announced she will announce her intentions to run against incumbent Republican … Governor Rick Perry, has a track record of missing key committee meetings as per her responsibility of being a U.S. … Senator:Legislation to permit law enforcement to jam prisoners' cell phone calls easily cleared a Senate committee on Wednesday, the…

Aug 6, 2009 – It took Chuck Colson a couple of years and the repeated leaks of national security information and massive protests of the Vietnam … "The White House request that members of the public report anyone who is spreading 'disinformation' about the proposed national health … lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are examining the plan's possible implementation," writes Byron York in the Washington…

Aug 6, 2009 – National Committee. … Terry McAuliffe, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee attended the glittering Washington, D.C., premiere of "Fahrenheit … What is the likelihood that a birther will be sitting with former President Bush at the 2012 Republican National Convention?…

Aug 6, 2009 – Chairman Howard Dean, the Republican National Hispanic Assembly and the Asian American and Pacific Islander National Republican Association … During a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, Dean said, "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people … It's clear." 2) House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., and Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican Party…

Aug 2, 2009 – First, the number is so small compared to the national budget that is not a significant number; second, Obama was exploding the budget … John Kasich took over the House Budget Committee and cut 100 commissions and agencies. … I was somewhat disheartened to see a smart Republican, Paul Ryan, minimize these cuts in his comments to the Wall Street Journal.…

Aug 2, 2009 – Imagine further a Republican-run U.S. … Eric Holder, the newly appointed Attorney General of the United States, told the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and … If DOJ can't make the case under Sec. 245 against armed Black Panthers who told Chris Hill, a white Republican poll watcher, "White…

Jul 31, 2009 – Last week, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy spoke out against critics of Sonia Sotomayor as playing “racial … “Republican Leader” is me. … The National Council of La Raza bills itself as “the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United…

Aug 18, 2009 – Lewis had no idea my wife was a prolife activist doing volunteer work for the National Right to Life Committee.  … She had changed her registration to Republican mainly because of abortion.  … If the Republican Party abandoned her on this issue, I knew she would abandon the Republican Party. …

Aug 15, 2009 – However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (54%) say no health care reform passed by Congress … To this point, there has been no Republican support for the legislative effort although the Senate Finance Committee is still attempting…

Aug 13, 2009 – Speaker Nancy Pelosi is from San Francisco, and important House committee chairmen are from similar "gentry urban" locales -- Henry … Republican leaders tend to come from mostly suburban districts closer to the national political average. … Of the 19 lawmakers who are in the GOP's House leadership or who are ranking committee members, four come from districts carried by…

Aug 13, 2009 – Durbin in 2001 -- when the Democrats ran the Senate Judiciary Committee -- called Estrada "especially dangerous, because he has a minimal … But as to the sympathetic "back story" of a Republican nominee -- who cares? … A Republican nominee like Miguel Estrada becomes a "sellout" or a "Tio Taco."…

Aug 11, 2009 – Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse mislabeled them as "angry mobs of rabid right-wing extremists." … There is no evidence that they are organized and financed by the insurance companies, or even by the Republican Party. … Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, described the threat, which Issa called…

Aug 28, 2009 – The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at … denying reimbursement to less favored (because presumably less effective) treatments -- precisely the triage done by the NICE committee … it's proxy, and because it will guarantee access to (supposedly) private health insurance -- something that enjoys considerable Republican…

Aug 28, 2009 – He intended to support Republican Bob McDonnell for governor in November on Madisonian grounds. … McDonnell cut his political teeth as an intern at the House Republican Policy Committee. … National Republicans might learn a stylistic lesson from the Virginia race as well.…

Aug 26, 2009 – On May 27, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson had telephone conversations about Vietnam with McGeorge Bundy, his national security … Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee. First, to Bundy, he said: "It just worries the hell out of me. … The war's natural supporters -- the hawkish right and center of the Republican Party -- inevitably will have at least their enthusiasm…

Aug 25, 2009 – On Monday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) released its own "seniors' health care bill of rights," vocalizing the GOP's opposition … The Republican apple certainly has fallen far from the conservative tree.  To garner seniors' votes, President George W. … The Republican Party instead seems more concerned with wooing the votes of today's senior citizens. …

Aug 24, 2009 – Roy Romer in the 1980s, and National Review's favorite Republican governor, Bill Owens, in the 1990s. … Scott McInnis in the polls and runs only even against a little-known Republican state legislator. … Republican Rocky Mountain states than like the hip states of the Pacific Coast.…

Aug 24, 2009 – The election of Audra Shay to chairwoman of the Young Republican National Federation in July shined a national spotlight on what is … Cassie Wallender, a national committeewoman from the Washington Young Republican Federation was one of the two individuals who were … “During Audra Shay's first session leading the National Committee, she brought forward an anti-discrimination provision,” she said.…

Aug 23, 2009 – Fiorina has voted in about one in four elections since she registered as a Republican in Santa Clara County in 2000. … Whitman didn't even register as a Republican until 2007. … John Cornyn, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is chatting up Fiorina.…

Aug 20, 2009 – But some of Christie's Republican allies already suspect that politics is the real motive behind the Justice Department's initiative … Waxman and other top Democrats on the House committee were trying to "silence the health-insurance industry and distract attention … And at the other end of the avenue, a powerful committee chairman is trying to dig up dirt on an industry that insures 180 million…

Aug 30, 2009 – The difference was that while Kerry had a 9-point edge over his Republican opponent among moderates, Obama carried them by 21 points … After the election, then-chairman of the Republican National Committee Mike Duncan noted that the Democratic nominee supported offshore … "Put simply," he said, "Barack Obama just ran the most successful moderate Republican presidential campaign since Dwight Eisenhower…

Sep 17, 2009 – I've been wishing for another Ross Perot -- a leader who would awaken the American people to the dangers of living beyond our national … Coming after the 2008 stimulus package, bank rescue program and automaker bailout -- steps toward "socialism" taken by a Republican … Maya MacGuineas, head of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, notes another cause for dismay.…

Sep 16, 2009 – The Republican National Committee claims "over 88 million people" who are covered through work "would lose current insurance under…

Sep 15, 2009 – A call to her exploratory committee, Carly for California, led me to Beth Miller who told me that, in fact, Carly has never said she … would self-fund and had made that clear from the outset to the folks at the Republican National Senatorial Committee.  … Apparently her position not to self-fund also didn’t come as a surprise to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. …