by Leo Gerard | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
After mouthing off in ways that had the effect of repeatedly shooting himself in the foot, Donald Trump tried to recover last week by puffing himself up as the jobs candidate. “When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories...
by Jim Hightower | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This year’s freakish presidential election has now devolved into an ethnic brouhaha between two foreigners: A Mexican and a German. The “Mexican” is Gonzalo Curiel, a U.S. federal judge who was born, raised, and educated in Indiana. The “German” is Donald Drumpf —...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
The tragedy in Orlando reveals that the three issues that once made up the Republican’s “winning formula” may have finally ripened into political poison for the GOP. In 1994, James Inhofe told Oklahoma voters that the senate race could be summed up in “the three Gs —...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, House Democrats and Republicans faced off over reasonable gun laws. Democrats held a sit-in to force a showdown with Republican leadership. Republicans blinked. If anyone in the House knows how to stand up to powerful opposition with moral strength, Rep....
by Dave Johnson | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
When you hear people saying that "even the IMF" is recommending economic actions that might help regular people, that's a sign that something big is going down. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is known as a neoliberal organization that pushes privatization of...
by Bill Scher | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
Speaker Paul Ryan's has been rolling out an ambitious legislative agenda, titled "A Better Way," designed to show that the Republican Party – irrespective of Donald Trump – is brimming with exciting policy ideas and is ready to govern. But The Atlantic finds it akin...
