Topic: Republicans

Jon Stewart Is Not Letting Cheney or Rumsfeld Join the Scandal Parade

Comedy Central

In continuing to address "Hurricane Scandy," Stewart had to admit that Republicans has something with the IRS and Benghazi dust-ups. He even proposed teaming up with Fox News! But you know who still doesn't get to take a GOP victory lap? Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 21, 2011

All Political Parties Are Delusional In Their Own Special Way

The professional left and the professional right are delusional in their own special way, according to two essays in this week's New York magazine, which can be summed up as "Why can't you people be happy?" vs. "Why are you people happy with this?"

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By John Hudson

Nov 18, 2011

Going Small Is Going Nowhere in the Super Committee

Super Committee Democrats blasted a smaller $643 billion deficit-reduction plan offered by Republicans Friday, a rejection that leaves nothing on the table ahead of Monday's deadline.

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By John Hudson

Nov 18, 2011

Start Spreading the Word: The Super Committee Will Fail

The day for making excuses is upon us, as members of Congress begin alerting the Washington press that the 12-member Super Committee will miss its Nov. 23 deadline.

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By John Hudson

Nov 17, 2011

Place Your Bets on the Super Committee

The likelihood of a Super Committee deficit-reduction deal by Nov. 23 depends on a slew of moving parts. But that hasn't prevented banks, politicians and reporters from venturing a guess at the odds of an 11th hour agreement.

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By John Hudson

Nov 17, 2011

What Stephen Chu Does and Doesn't Know About Solyndra

We expected a number of uncomfortable questions to be raised during Energy Secretary Stephen Chu's first testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee today and House Republicans did not disappoint.

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By John Hudson

Nov 17, 2011

The People Rooting for the Super Committee to Fail

Despite vociferous claims from leaders in both parties that the Super Committee must not fail, a narrow coalition of actors inside and outside of government are rooting for the deficit-reduction panel to gridlock and fail in its final days of negotiations.

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By Erik Hayden

Nov 17, 2011

Looks Like Ron Paul Will Be Ignored Again in the Next Debate

Ron Paul hasn't gotten much attention at recent GOP debates and, as Politico's Dylan Byers reports, that streak may well continue at CNN's next square-off, where he'll be situated on the far right side of your TV screen in Santorum nowhereland. 

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By John Hudson

Nov 17, 2011

Stephen Chu's Toughest Solyndra Questions

Today, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee will try their best to draw concessions from Energy Secretary Stephen Chu for his department's support of Solyndra, the first renewable energy company to receive a loan under President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, which has since gone belly up.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 17, 2011

Cartoon

The Super Committee Lays an Egg

Cartoonist Tony Auth's bleak outlook for the nation's Super Committee

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By John Hudson

Nov 16, 2011

Newt's Best Defense Is a Good Offense

Newt Gingrich has so many skeletons in the closet it's not even worth engaging the media on its own terms.

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By John Hudson

Nov 16, 2011

The Super Committee's Great Escapes

They can't strike a deal so they want to pull a fast one. With only one week left, members of the bipartisan Super Committee are resorting to accounting gimmicks and legislative sleights of hand to magically produce $1.2 trillion in deficit savings without significant tax increases or spending cuts.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 15, 2011

One Press Release Encapsulates the Whole Cain Campaign

After conservatives criticized Herman Cain for his stumbling response to an answer about unions' collective bargaining power, his campaign sent out a press release that's  a shorter version of the entire Cain campaign -- not-quite-factual statements, a refusal to offer details, and the hope that everyone will be distracted if he shouts "Ronald Reagan!" loud enough.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 15, 2011

In Search of the Genuine Newt Gingrich Fan

Newt Gingrich is at the top of several polls now that almost every other anti-Mitt Romney candidate has flamed out, but is there anyone out there for whom Gingrich is the No. 1 choice?

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 15, 2011

Jon Huntsman Too Proud to Beg Dad for Help

Jon Huntsman won't ask his billionaire father to dump millions into a political action committee to save his campaign, and his father won't donate unless he's asked, The New York TimesJim Rutenberg and Nicholas Confessore report.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 15, 2011

Rick Perry's Unlikely Crusade Against Casual Corruption

Rick Perry is perhaps not the best Republican presidential candidate to take up the banner of cleaning the corruption out of Washington, but he's charging ahead anyway.

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By Erik Hayden

Nov 15, 2011

Jon Stewart's Surprise When Bachmann Sounds Nearly Reasonable

This is a Daily Show clip that you don't see often: In appraising the latest GOP debate, Jon Stewart had a few semi-agreeable things to say about the foreign policy remarks of candidates he frequently mocks, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 14, 2011

Cain Takes a Stand Against Knowing Things

The most important part of the latest baffling Herman Cain interview might not be his confused answer on Libya, but what he said to excuse it: "Some people want to say, 'Well as president you have to know everything' -- no, you don't!"

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 14, 2011

Republicans Prefer AOL Mail, Democrats Like Google

For Republicans, there is no shame in an AOL e-mail address. 

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By John Hudson

Nov 14, 2011

The Hustle to Defuse 60 Minutes' Congressional Insider Trading Story

The legislators knew it was coming and they came out guns blazing.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 14, 2011

Republican Candidates Finish Flirting with Isolationism

The Republican presidential field briefly flirted with attacking Obama for waging too much war before deciding he's not waging quite enough. 

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 14, 2011

Herman Cain and the Deep Political Meaning of Pizza

The more meat you order on your pizza, the more manly you are, Herman Cain says.

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By Erik Hayden

Nov 14, 2011

Gloria Cain Says Her Husband 'Totally Respects Women'

In her first interview since the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain resurfaced, his wife Gloria told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, "I'm thinking he would have to have a split personality to do the things that she said."

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By Ted Mann

Nov 12, 2011

Should George Will Have to Disclose His Wife's Clients?

George Will ripped Mitt Romney in the Washington Post the other day, not for the first time. Should he have mentioned that his wife tried and failed to get hired by Romney, and now works for a competitor?

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 11, 2011

Newt Gingrich's Bad Ideas, According to Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich has pitched himself as an ideas man his whole career, and now that he's gaining in polls, he suddenly seems smarter than his former top staffers who quit his campaign to work for Rick Perry.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 11, 2011

How Cain Spent His Day Off from the the Sexual Harassment Controversy

Herman Cain got only one day off from scrutiny while everyone made fun Rick Perry's inability to name all three government agencies so oppressively regulatory they must be abolished.

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By Erik Hayden

Nov 11, 2011

While Cain Still Leads In New Poll, Signs of a Gingrich Surge

Friday morning, after a week of Herman Cain pressers and Rick Perry flubs, how did the evolving top tier of GOP contenders shake-up? Well, lets see: CBS News polling finds it to be a three-way race with Cain still holding on to a slim lead, Mitt Romney trailing close behind and a somewhat real "surge" for Newt Gingrich.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 10, 2011

Rick Perry Laughs Away the Pain with David Letterman

Rick Perry offered the "Top 10 Rick Perry Excuses" for his "oops" moment in Wednesday's debate on The Late Show with David Letterman Thursday.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 10, 2011

How to Break Up with a GOP Candidate

How do you reconcile the fact that a Republican candidate is performing poorly -- embarrassingly, objectively -- with prior beliefs -- passionate, vociferous -- that it's all the liberal media's fault? 

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 10, 2011

Rick Perry's Thursday Morning Damage Control Tour

Perry went on all three network morning shows Thursday, and forced a grin even as every anchor read the tweets of various Republican consultants that his campaign was dead.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 9, 2011

Rick Perry Can't Remember Which Agency He Wants Abolished

Rick Perry struggled for several agonizing seconds to remember the last of the three federal agencies he'd cut during Wednesday's debate.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 9, 2011

GOP Debate: Perry Forgets Things

Tonight's Republican primary debate in Detroit will be about the economy, which means it will give Herman Cain a chance to talk about something other than how tall various women are. Plus: our liveblog starts around 7 p.m.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 9, 2011

Don't Forget There Are Seven Other Presidential Candidates

They may seem all but forgotten, but there are still seven other presidential candidates trying to get voters to pay attention to them while Herman Cain does inexplicable things on television. These are there stories.

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By John Hudson

Nov 9, 2011

Fresh Solyndra Emails Show the Involvement of an Obama Fundraiser

According to new emails released by House Republicans, George Kaiser, a billionaire investor and bundler for President Obama 2008 campaign, says he discussed the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra with White House officials.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 9, 2011

A Guide to the Cain Conspiracy Theories

Herman Cain said he's not going to "point any fingers" at who might be conspiring to destroy his reputation with sexual harassment allegations, but the Internet is happy to fill that void.

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By John Hudson

Nov 9, 2011

Let's Take the GOP's Zombie ACORN Probe Completely Seriously

The community organizing collective ACORN may be disbanded but that doesn't mean Republicans are finished crusading against its former employees and tying them to the left-wing-tinged Occupy Wall Street movement.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Nov 9, 2011

Controversial 'Personhood' Measure Fails in Mississippi

Some big conservative initiatives went down to public vote last night as off-year elections produced little drama, but gave hope up to liberal causes heading into 2012.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 8, 2011

Cain Only Fed the Frenzy with His Press Conference

Herman Cain's assertion that he has no memory of Sharon Bialek's name or face or voice might be a problem for him, given that Bialek says she spoke to Cain at a Tea Party event this year and a witness says she saw the interaction.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 8, 2011

News Cycle Demands a Second Look at Huntsman

If Jon Huntsman's moment in the Republican primary limelight arrives, he will have 46 words and a media-trained woman accusing the nominal frontrunner of groping her to thank.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 8, 2011

Every Minute of Cain Accuser Sharon Bialek's Media Blitz

Sharon Bialek visited the morning shows to explain why she is publicly accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment. While some interviewers were more sympathetic than others, Bialek stayed on message, with celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred by her side.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 7, 2011

The Cain Accusations Now Have a Face

Sharon Bialek's smirks aside, the accusations she made, many people have since noted since her press conference, sound not like sexual harassment, but sexual assault.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 7, 2011

Is Newt the G.O.P.'s Next Hope?

As the Cain campaign has been consumed by stories of sexual harassment, Newt Gingrich is beating Mitt Romney in Iowa, according to one new poll, and has surged into double digits nationally according to another.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 7, 2011

Can Anything Stop Herman Cain?

A fourth woman will accuse Herman Cain of sexually harassing her -- on live TV, while showing her face, giving her name, dishing the details, and, perhaps worst of all for the candidate, while being represented by Gloria Allred, the most media-hungry lawyer for women wronged. 

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Two Decades After Anita Hill, Republicans Shrug at Sexual Harassment

Scores of interviews with Iowa Republicans over the weekend turned up scant outrage over the sexual harassment allegations leveled against presidential candidate Herman Cain.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 4, 2011

Mark Block Says He'd Do Things Differently, and Also Exactly the Same

With the benefit of hindsight, Herman Cain's top aide Mark Block knows how he would have contained the story about his candidate's history of sexual harassment claims: he'd do everything the same way, except it would work.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 4, 2011

What the Rest of the Republican Candidates Did This Week

There are other candidates in the Republican presidential race besides Herman Cain, and they are doing things other than denying they had anything to do with leaking his sexual harassment story.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 4, 2011

What the Women Say Cain Did

Herman Cain repeatedly insisted that a junior female employee go home with him while they were out with other National Restaurant Association employees one night, according to The New York Times and Politico.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 3, 2011

96 Hours on the Cain Merry-Go-Round

It's only been four days since it was revealed that Herman Cain settled sexual harassment claims when he ran the National Restaurant Association, but the pace at which he's reversed and changed his story only seems to be accelerating.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 3, 2011

Romney Says He's as Consistent as a Human Can Be

Mitt Romney says he's "been as consistent as human beings can be" to a New Hampshire newspaper editorial board Thursday, which, if true, means humans are always changing their opinions on abortion.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 3, 2011

John Boehner Forgot Who Grover Norquist Is

House Speaker John Boehner appeared flummoxed when he was asked about anti-tax activist Grover Norquist's influence on his party, waiting five seconds before answering, "It's not often I'm asked about some random person."

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 3, 2011

Herman Cain, Martyr for the 9-9-9 Cause

Perhaps Herman Cain has noticed reporters have started using terms like "snowballing" and  "modified limited hangout," a Richard Nixon reference, to refer to allegations of sexual harassment against him, because he's shifted from hoping the story will go away to blaming it on his rivals.

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