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Fred Thompson

Jul 26, 2011 12:56 PM CDT

Dear GOP, You Won, Let's End the Fight

Fred Thompson: It's time to declare victory and move on

(Newser) - Republicans already have wrung impressive concessions from President Obama in the debt ceiling talks, writes former senator and one-time presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Might they get more? Possibly, but it's not the worth the risk of default to find out. "I respectfully suggest that you rake in your...

Mitch McConnell on Debt Ceiling: Big Deal Is Dead

McConnell:
Big Deficit
Deal Is Dead

Jul 10, 2011 9:16 AM CDT

McConnell: Big Deficit Deal Is Dead

Top Republican blames White House insistence on tax hikes

(Newser) - Mitch McConnell is jumping right on John Boehner's pronouncement last night that a broad deal on the deficit is impossible, reports Politico. Appearing on Fox News Sunday this morning, the Senate's top Republican said the White House's insistence that a $4 trillion deal be accompanied by tax...

Obama Now
Talking Like
a Republican

Paul Krugman

Jul 8, 2011 1:26 PM CDT

Obama Now Talking Like a Republican

Paul Krugman: It's getting harder to trust him on the economy

(Newser) - The way President Obama is talking lately, it sounds an awful lot like he's accepted the "economic fallacies" of Republicans, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times . He seems more concerned about cutting the deficit and slashing spending than creating jobs. It's possible this is part...

Yes, There Are
Tea Party
Democrats

Jul 6, 2011 10:17 AM CDT

Yes, There Are Tea Party Democrats

Not many of them, but they do exist

(Newser) - Think "Tea Party" and you'll probably think "Republican"—but it turns out Tea Party Democrats do, in fact, exist. But it's hard to say just how many, and harder still to gauge how much of an impact they have on elections, the Washington Post reports....

Obama Happy
to Pick a Fight
in Combative
Speech

OPINION roundup

Jun 29, 2011 7:26 PM CDT

Obama Happy to Pick a Fight in Combative Speech

President lays into Republicans over budget cuts, taxes

(Newser) - President Obama today cast the budget fight today as a choice between jet owners and ordinary Americans at his press conference . Some reactions:

Greg Sargent, Washington Post : "He was clearly out to pick a major public fight with Republicans over tax cuts for the rich. Obama mounted a surprisingly

...

Obama: GOP Must Tackle 'Sacred Cows' on Tax Cuts

Obama:
Republicans
Must Bend
on Tax Hikes

Jun 29, 2011 11:27 AM CDT

Obama: Republicans Must Bend on Tax Hikes

President says eliminating breaks for ultra-wealthy isn't 'radical'

(Newser) - President Obama entered the deficit/debt war of words today in a wide-ranging press conference and laid into the GOP with what the Washington Post calls his toughest language yet. He said congressional Republicans have to "take on their sacred cows" and agree to scrap tax breaks for the ultra-rich...

Finally, Republicans Are Being Republicans Again

Peggy Noonan

Jun 17, 2011 12:41 PM CDT

Finally, Republicans Are Being Republicans Again

Peggy Noonan likes the new 'sobriety' about waging war

(Newser) - Republicans should be happy with this week's debate for two reasons, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal . First, nobody showed up from "Crazytown." More importantly, the candidates demonstrated a "new sobriety" on foreign policy. "There were no burly promises of victories around the...

Wisconsin
GOP Will Run
Fake Democrats
to Buy Time

Jun 8, 2011 8:02 PM CDT

Wisconsin GOP Will Run Fake Democrats to Buy Time

They will force primaries, push back recall elections until August

(Newser) - Wisconsin politics continue to dazzle: Republicans there are worried about losing their majority in the state Senate in a spate of recall elections set for July 12. They'd like more time to campaign, and they've hit on a bizarre way to get it, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...

Paul Ryan Is a 'Sore Loser,' Maybe a Liar

Paul Krugman

May 27, 2011 1:55 PM CDT

Paul Ryan Is a 'Sore Loser,' Maybe a Liar

Americans know the truth about his Medicare plan: Paul Krugman

(Newser) - Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal is taking its lumps of late (see here and here ), and the GOP budget wonk is deflecting criticism by accusing "demagogue" Democrats of lying about what his plan would do. Paul Krugman begs to differ: "The reality is that the Ryan plan...

Resolute GOP Stands by Ryan's Medicare Overhaul

May 26, 2011 7:00 AM CDT

Resolute GOP Stands by Ryan's Medicare Overhaul

Despite its divisive nature, Republicans still fighting for Ryan's plan

(Newser) - Despite the five Senate Republicans who voted against Paul Ryan’s Medicare overhaul yesterday, the GOP remains wedded to the divisive, and increasingly unpopular , plan. Rather than back off, Republicans are responding by increasing attacks on the Democrats’ position, the Wall Street Journal reports. "We need to make it...

Run, Paul Ryan:
This Is Your Moment

OPINION

May 24, 2011 1:39 PM CDT

Run, Paul Ryan: This Is Your Moment

Jonah Goldberg: Who better to defend his Medicare proposal in 2012 race?

(Newser) - With Mitch Daniels out, the GOP needs a "wonk on a white horse" to save the day and defend the party's vision on entitlement reform and spending cuts, writes Jonah Goldberg. The likeliest candidate should have been Newt Gingrich, but he first attacked Paul Ryan's Medicare plan...

Newt Gingrich
Apologizes
to Paul Ryan

May 17, 2011 6:14 PM CDT

Newt Gingrich Apologizes to Paul Ryan

Former House speaker goes into damage control quickly

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich says he's sorry and sounds like he'd take a do-over if he could. After running into a buzzsaw of GOP criticism for bashing Paul Ryan's budget plan over the weekend, Gingrich personally called the congressman today, reports Politico . “Newt apologized,” says his press...

Medicare Overhaul
Looks Dead This Year

May 5, 2011 7:58 PM CDT

Medicare Overhaul Looks Dead This Year

Republicans backing away from plan for now

(Newser) - After a day of conflicting reports and quotes, this now seems like a safe bet: The Republican plan to overhaul Medicare with a voucher system will be put off until after the 2012 election. Paul Ryan conceded as much even as John Boehner insisted "nothing is off the table....

Cracks Showing in Conservative Front

dana milbank

Apr 23, 2011 10:30 AM CDT

Cracks Showing in Conservative Front

Breitbart, others taking shots at each other now: Dana Milbank

(Newser) - Conservatives rallied behind a unified front for a long time, but the strains are beginning to show, writes Dana Milbank in the Washington Post . Witness Andrew Breitbart going after Glenn Beck and religious conservatives in the Tea Party; or the dissension in the ranks on the birther movement; or the...

GOP May Want to 'Rustle Up
a Posse' to Draft Paul Ryan

charles krauthammer

Apr 22, 2011 12:00 PM CDT

GOP May Want to 'Rustle Up a Posse' to Draft Paul Ryan

He's a great 'anti-Obama' for 2012: Charles Krauthammer

(Newser) - Charles Krauthammer surveys the GOP's 2012 field and lays down his current odds, with Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty the frontrunners to be nominee at 5-1. He says this is "analysis, not advocacy," but ends with a glowing nod to Paul Ryan, who he thinks could emerge...

Meghan McCain's New BFF:
Donald Trump

interview

Apr 21, 2011 3:26 PM CDT

Meghan McCain's New BFF: Donald Trump

'Will you hire me for your campaign?' she asks; 'I love it!' he responds

(Newser) - Meghan McCain thinks Donald Trump has the charisma so sorely lacking among GOP candidates and could actually win in the same way that Arnold Schwarzenegger did in California, she writes at the Daily Beast . In any event, she pulls off the most entertaining interview of Trump so far, during which...

Democrats Nearly Trick GOP
Into Legislative Blunder

Apr 15, 2011 5:19 PM CDT

Democrats Nearly Trick GOP Into Legislative Blunder

They tried to dupe Republicans into adopting ultra-conservative budget

(Newser) - Democrats tried to pull a fast one today on Republicans on the House floor, reports Talking Points Memo . Before Paul Ryan's budget blueprint passed , a far more conservative offering from the Republican Study Committee came up for a vote, one that called for much deeper cuts in spending and...

GOP Blasts Obama Speech:
'I Missed Lunch for This?'

Apr 13, 2011 4:26 PM CDT

GOP Blasts Obama Speech: 'I Missed Lunch for This?'

Republicans call it a partisan campaign speech

(Newser) - A sampling of Republican reaction to President Obama's budget speech today, from USA Today and Politico :

Paul Ryan: He called it "excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate, and hopelessly inadequate" in getting the nation's debt under control. It was "a political broadside from our campaigner in chief."
Jeb Hensarling:

...

If Trump Is on Top,
GOP Needs Fresh Blood

nate silver

Apr 13, 2011 2:09 PM CDT

If Trump Is on Top, GOP Needs Fresh Blood

Maybe it's time for Chris Christie or Paul Ryan to take another look: Nate Silver

(Newser) - Attention Chris Christie, or maybe Paul Ryan? Donald Trump's strong showing in recent polls illustrates just how shaky the GOP's 2012 field is, writes Nate Silver at the New York Times . He breaks the candidates into three groups: The Fairfax Five (think establishment candidates) of Romney, Pawlenty, Huntsman, Barbour, and...

Hey, GOP, It's Time to Lower the Drinking Age

OPINION

Apr 13, 2011 12:49 PM CDT

Hey, GOP, It's Time to Lower the Drinking Age

If 18-year-olds can fight, they should be able to drink

(Newser) - Alaska lawmaker Bob Lynn wants to lower the drinking age to 18 for active duty soldiers. “If you get shot at, you can have a shot,” he reasons. It's time to bring down our absurd drinking age as mandated in the 1984 Federal Uniform Drinking Act, argues Glenn...