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 Dave Johnson | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Democratic party's elites must not think that trade and jobs will be big issues in the coming election. Apparently, they've never listened to a Donald Trump speech, and didn't notice that working-class people in the United Kingdom just voted to "brexit" from the...
by Burning Issues Video | Jun 27, 2016 | Burning Issues, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/UmFUThcbSJY[/fve] The 2016 political races are being buffeted by "a transpartisan, nationwide trade revolt" against trade deals that have been rigged to benefit wealthy corporations at the expense of the rest of us, says Lori Wallach, director of...
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....
