Amazingly, when Republicans push budgets to cut a lot of services and only have middle class people pay taxes it just doesn’t seem to catch fire.
Did anyone know there was a made-for-TV movie made about that Dr. Ben Carson guy back in 2009?
TPM Reader JK thinks there’s a logic to the thinking, as long as you focus on members of Congress …
I agree with you [see earlier post] that Republican politicians who are thinking about running for President need to have the GOP engage on the issue of immigration reform, but for Republicans in the House and Senate, I don’t see that need as much. It wasn’t the 2010 election that resulted in the GOP hysteria about Latino voters, it was the presidential election of 2012.
The post-Palin Alaska GOP seems to be a in a wild west sort of way …
From the Alaska Dispatch …
With the Alaska GOP set to meet Monday evening to decide the fate of party chairwoman Debbie Brown of Kasilof, she has seized the Republican headquarters in Anchorage and is threatening to arrest anyone who tries to enter the building.
Listen to the McConnell team discuss using Ashley Judd’s mental health against her in a possible Senate campaign.
Rubio doubles down hard on who let Jay-Z and Beyonce go to Cuba.
4 year old grabs loaded gun at family cookout, accidentally shoots and kills wife of gun’s owner.
Reminds me a little of the moment I described here.
If you didn’t already read this piece by Benjy Sarlin about Bobby Jindal’s political collapse, do so all means. But I wanted to flag a more general point about what happened. Jindal’s gambit was something like a Louisiana-based ‘Ryan Plan’ designed among other things to be the centerpiece of a possible 2016 campaign for President. And had he been able to get it passed it would have been quite a calling card in the GOP primaries, at least among the economic conservative wing of the party. Read More
I just want to make one more quick observation about Benjy Sarlin’s piece (and Josh’s related thoughts) on Bobby Jindal’s downward spiral in Louisiana.
One of the arguments we’ve been propounding since the election is that Republicans made a strategic error by not shaking up their economic policy tenets in the wake of Obama’s re-election. Yes, they’re casting about awkwardly for immigrant and minority voters on the choppy waters of social policy and communications “outreach.” But they closed their eyes to the possibility that their poor showing among Hispanics, and other Democratic-leaning demographics might have had anything to do with economic and fiscal policy. Read More