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*In rapid succession, Tea Party leaders in Alaska, Ohio, and Florida recently saber rattled GOP governors, chairs, and local party officials of various stripes. Their offense was that they were too moderate, too conciliatory to Democrats, and had strayed too badly from conservative dogma. They came back at the GOP right afterwards with a demand [...]
*Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) criticized first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama’s recent spring break vacation to the Bahamas because it took place during the federal budget belt-tightening of sequestration. Appearing on an Iowa radio show, King agreed with a caller named Carla after she said she found the Obama girls’ vacation “really hard to stomach” [...]
*It’s about to go down between former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and his successor Reince Priebus. Someone’s hating because Steele said he could beat the new guy in a steel cage match and even called him “numbnuts.” During a chat with radio host Andrea Tantaros, he totally said what was on his mind [...]
*Dr. Ben Carson — who during his speech at February’s National Prayer Breakfast criticized some of President Obama’s economic policies — hinted Saturday that he might be interested in a 2016 presidential run. Speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, Carson continued his attack on Washington and the rest of the United States, and [...]
*One of the GOP’s fondest wishes has been to kill the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. Twice it floated several trial balloons in Congress. The first one was in 1981 when the Act came up for renewal. The deal in the initial passage of the Act was that it be renewed every 25 years. A [...]
*If you thought you was already beyond annoyed and tired of the Beyoncé lip-synching “scandal,” well you ain’t heard nothin’ yet. That’s because satirist Andy Borowitz of the New Yorker, posted a column titled “Obama Urged to Resign Over Beyoncé Scandal” that’s being taken seriously by (some) readers other media outlets [ but not us, [...]
*Colin Powell went in on his own Republican Party during an interview on “Meet the Press” Sunday, calling out some “former governors” as using racist statements to describe President Obama and noting that there is a “dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party.” “What do I mean by that?,” he explained. “What [...]
*UN Ambassador Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration for Secretary of State, saying the criticism surrounding her comments on Benghazi had become an “irresponsible distraction.” “I am fully confident that I could serve our country ably and effectively in that role,” Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama today. “However, if nominated, [...]
*Earlier this year, conservatives just knew that the film “Zero Dark Thirty,” about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, would be full of pro-Obama propaganda that would somehow sway the presidential election if released before Election Day. More controversy followed the revelation that the film’s writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow were given special briefings on [...]
*The resignation of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint from the Senate followed close on the heels of the desertion from the Tea Party of Freedom Works head Dick Armey took some by surprise. DeMint and Armey were the two biggest and most identifiable fish in the Tea Party affiliated pond. DeMint could be relied on [...]
GOP leaders don’t even try to hide that their sudden pile on the immigration reform bandwagon is a blatant, cynical, politically panic driven attempt to bag a few more Latino votes in future elections. The ploy won’t work, and a few of the more thoughtful heads in the GOP know it. The reason has nothing [...]
*Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is talking trash. In the wake of Tuesday’s election, “What was the mess I left behind?” Steele said Monday in response to a question from The Daily Caller during a conference call organized by his firm. “Winning.” “I get the Washington B.S. and all of that when it [...]
*A super PAC ad running Ohio hopes it can woo African American voters with a new ad suggesting their loyalty to the Democratic Party is misguided, and that they should vote Republican because Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, too. [Watch below.] According to Salon, the Empower Citizens Network has an ad in the Columbus area [...]
*A Texas group has made billboards saying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, and that minority voters should vote Republican too. The man behind the billboards in Texas, Claver Kamau-Imani, said his group whose site is RagingElephants.org, tries to court minority voters to the Republican Party, reports Memphis station WREG. [Click here to [...]
*No one got to see this video of Donald Trump treating the President of the United States like one of his contestants on “The Apprentice” until now. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] It was supposed to run on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, but that day was cancelled dur to [...]
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