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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

GOP candidate who blamed tornadoes on same-sex marriage stymies party leaders

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Free and Equal 3rd Party Debate 10/23/12 Part 5

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Tea Party v. Establishment Fight May Intensify if GOP Regains Senate

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Charlie Rangel: Tea Party is made up of “mean, racist people” from former “slave-holding” states

The NYC congressman still can’t figure out why Obama thought he could cut a deal with the Tea Party

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Charlie Rangel: Tea Party is made up of “mean, racist people” from former “slave-holding” states

Friday, March 7, 2014

The Democrat Party Convention organized ahead of schedule

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Hala Shukrallah, the first woman to lead an Egyptian political party, warns against the military involvement in elections

The first woman to head an Egyptian political party has expressed concern that a return to military rule could threaten democracy in a country roiled by three years of turbulence.

Hala Shukrallah, a Copt who now leads the liberal Al-Dostour Party, told AFP the failure of democratic groups to throw up a civilian leadership was benefitting the military, and could also help the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood make a comeback.

“We are asking questions regarding the entrance of the military in a democratic election,” said Shukrallah, 59, when questioned about the possible election of army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as Egypt‘s next president.

“We have the very specific opinion that there is a danger, that this might infringe on the democratic process,” she said in an interview at her party headquarters in central Cairo.

Sisi, the most popular political figure in Egypt after he ousted Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first freely elected and civilian head of state, said Tuesday he “cannot turn his back” on demands that he run for president.

He has yet to formally announce his candidacy, but his supporters say he is certain to win the vote.

Shukrallah, who was educated in Britain, was elected in February to head Al-Dostour, which was formed in 2012 by former vice president and opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei.

Nobel peace laureate ElBaradei quit the military-installed government in August after security forces violently dispersed two sit-ins of Morsi’s supporters in Cairo that killed hundreds.

Shukrallah, a sociologist who was arrested several times in the 1970s and 1980s for her fiery student activism, has helped founding civil society groups fighting for women’s rights.

Her election has been hailed as a positive “change” in Egypt, where Copts — the largest Christian community in the Middle East — and women in general have traditionally faced discrimination.

“Women have been very much in the forefront of (the) revolution and I think that has been clear not only to the people who were part of the revolution… but it has been very clear to the rest of society,” she said, suggesting her election reflected the “shifts” in the society.

‘Brotherhood return possible’

Shukrallah said Egypt was still far from achieving any democratic principles.

After three years of tumult, “we are still wondering where is social justice, we are still speaking about what is happening to democratic freedoms and human rights,” said Shukrallah.

“So I think we are facing a challenge. This is a tug-of-war and there are very deep interests rooted within society that are fighting back and that want to maintain the old regime.”

On Saturday, Egypt unveiled a new cabinet led by Ibrahim Mahlab, a former member of the National Democratic Party, the ruling party of Mubarak who was ousted in 2011.

The previous government quit amid increasing unpopularity over its failure to tackle a floundering economy.

Shukrallah expressed concern over the widening government crackdown on dissent by jailing non-Islamist activists, including those who led the anti-Mubarak revolt.

“There should not be some kind of sweeping method in order to stop all kind of protest,” she told AFP.

“If this is the goal, then there is something deeply wrong with how this transitional period is being led.”

A government crackdown targeting supporters of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood meanwhile has killed more than 1,400 people since the Islamist’s ouster.

Shukrallah dismissed reconciliation with the Brotherhood, accusing it of being undemocratic.

But “if the democratic camp does not strengthen itself, it is very possible that at some point in the future we can again see…the Muslim Brotherhood come back to the political scene… which is a problem,” she said.

If the democratic camp was “strong… we would not have had the need for someone to fill the gap and that being the army.”

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Hala Shukrallah, the first woman to lead an Egyptian political party, warns against the military involvement in elections

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Egypt"s liberal party leader voices fears for democracy

CAIRO (Reuters) – The first woman to head a major Egyptian political party said on Tuesday she saw dangers for democracy if Egypt’s wildly popular army chief becomes president, without guarantees that he will not be above the law.

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The Republican Establishment"s War on the Tea Party Is Working

Representative Steve Stockman’s antiestablishment quest to topple Senator John Cornyn of Texas is winding toward an abysmal finish: Polls suggest that he’ll not only fall short of knocking out the incumbent during next week’s primary, he’ll be lucky to outperform a handful of Tea Party unknowns. Stockman was never embraced by outside conservative groups, but many grassroots activists were expecting a more vigorous challenge to an establishment denizen than what the quirky congressman provided.

Stockman’s tale isn’t a unique one. The last month has provided numerous examples of Tea Party favorites proving they’re not ready for political prime time. Indeed, of the six Republican senators facing primary opposition this year, only one—Thad Cochran of Mississippi—looks like he’s facing a credible threat.

Take Milton Wolf in Kansas. The radiologist’s campaign was handed a race-altering gift when The New York Times reported that his opponent, Senator Pat Roberts, barely kept his residency in Kansas. But now his effort is faltering under the weight of revelations that he published and joked about graphic images of his patients. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has actively promoted Wolf’s travails to reporters as eagerly as the group has dished oppo against vulnerable Democrats.

Or take Matt Bevin in Kentucky, whose personal fortune was supposed to help fuel a well-funded effort to take down Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Instead, he’s deflecting accusations from his nominal allies that he backed the government’s multibillion-dollar Wall Street bailout during the height of the financial crisis. McConnell’s aggressive campaign and outside allies are playing a pivotal role in preventing Bevin’s campaign from getting any traction.

The trifecta of disappointing returns for conservatives isn’t coincidental. In previous years, insurgent conservative candidates like Christine O’Donnell weren’t taken seriously in the GOP primary, with the problematic parts of their record hidden away until a general election.

But with incumbents now keenly aware of the danger they face in a primary, those same Tea Party-aligned hopefuls are finding themselves under more scrutiny than ever. And oftentimes they’re not holding up well.

“Inevitably, in a statewide race, any issues in any candidate’s background would come to the forefront,” said Brian Walsh, a former NRSC communications director. “And we’re seeing incumbents who aren’t taking anything for granted.”

So far, Stockman’s campaign is the best example of a Tea Party challenger gone wild. His effort has been bizarre, with him disappearing from the campaign trail for weeks without notifying the media, only to reveal later that he had been in Russia. He’s made barely any public appearances in Texas, taking refuge in his increasingly erratic Twitter account instead.

Those strange jaunts alone would come close to disqualifying him from office. But they’ve been accentuated by an aggressive effort from Cornyn to keep the pressure on Stockman and by the senator’s own attempts to remain close to the GOP base.

Cornyn’s press operations have highlighted every misstep in the congressman’s run, while Cornyn himself has spent the better part of a year attending local Republican functions to build grassroots support for his candidacy. And he has built a substantial war chest, raising nearly $ 7.5 million in 2013 alone.

“He was always going to treat this as the toughest race he’s run,” said Cornyn campaign spokesman Drew Brandewie. “And that was always the attitude he’s had.”

Inevitably, establishment Republicans say the failure of candidates like Stockman or Bevin are the fault of outside conservative groups, in particular the Senate Conservatives Fund. The group once aligned with former Senator Jim DeMint—which has endorsed Bevin and Wolf but not Stockman—has been at war with the NRSC for much of this cycle over its support of candidates targeting GOP incumbents.

“The Senate Conservatives Fund has said that the only criteria to possibly get their support is that you’re not the incumbent,” Walsh said. “Other than that, they say anyone is free to apply.”

Officials at SCF fire back that the NRSC, in pushing some of the attacks against Wolf and others, is signaling they won’t back those candidates should they capture the nomination anyway.

“That’s a very big shift and it proves that they’re not interested in winning a majority,” said Matt Hoskins, the SCF’s executive director. “Their goal [is] to protect incumbents and elect more moderate Republicans who won’t rock the boat. They’re not interested in building a new Senate, they want to protect the old one.”

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Republican Party Needs to Master the Message

Senator Ted Cruz is a hero in some Republican circles — and the opposite among many of his Senate Republican colleagues.

At this crucial juncture in the history of America, internal battles within the only party that can turn things around are the last thing Americans need. Moreover, each side in this political civil war has all too many valid criticisms of the other.

The Republican establishment’s criticisms of Senator Cruz are criticisms of his rule-or-ruin strategy, which can destroy whatever chance Republicans have of taking back the Senate in 2014 and taking back the White House in 2016. And, without political power, there is no real hope of changing things in Washington.

Senator Cruz’s filibuster last year got the Republicans blamed for shutting down the government — and his threatened filibuster this year forced several Republican Senators to jeopardize their own reelection prospects by voting to impose cloture, to prevent Cruz from repeating his self-serving grandstand play of last year. The Republicans need every vote they can get in the Senate — plus additional votes by defeating some Democrats who are running for the Senate this fall. It can be a very close call. Jeopardizing the reelection of current Republican Senators is an act of utter irresponsibility, a high risk with zero benefits to anyone except Ted Cruz — and the Democrats.

However unjustified Senator Cruz’s actions, the very fact that a freshman Senator can so quickly gain so many supporters, with so much enthusiasm, ought to be a loud warning to the Republican establishment that they have long been a huge disappointment to a wide range of Republican voters and supporters.

One of their most maddening qualities has for decades been their can’t-be-bothered attitude when it comes to explaining their positions to the American people in language people can understand. A classic example was Speaker of the House John Boehner’s performance when he emerged from a meeting at the White House a while back. There, with masses of television news cameras pointed at him, and a bank of microphones crowded together, he simply expressed his disgust at the Obama administration, turned and walked on away.

Here was a golden opportunity to cut through the Obama administration rhetoric and set the record straight on the issues at hand. But apparently Speaker Boehner couldn’t be bothered to have a prepared, and previously thought out, statement to present, conveying something more than his disgust.

Unfortunately, Speaker Boehner is just the latest in a long line of Republican “leaders” with the same disregard of the need to explain their position in plain English.

That takes work. But it is work that any number of conservative commentators on radio and television do every day of the week. And they are very successful in getting across arguments that Republican politicians do not bother to try to get across.

Democrats are constantly articulating their talking points. Less than 24 hours elapsed after the Congressional Budget Office reported that ObamaCare was likely to cause many workers to have their hours cut back, before Democrats were all talking about the “freedom” this would give workers to pursue other interests, rather than being “locked-in” to long hours on a full-time job.

It was a slick and dishonest argument, but the point here is that Democrats immediately saw the need for articulation — and for all of them to use the same words and phrases, so as to establish their argument by sheer repetition.

Nor was this the first time that Democrats coordinated their words and phrases. A few years ago, Senator Chuck Schumer was secretly recorded giving fellow Democrats the word to use whenever describing Republicans — namely, “extreme.”

When George W. Bush first ran for president in 2000, the word among Democrats was that he lacked “gravitas.” People who had never used that word in years were suddenly saying “gravitas” 24/7.

The Republican establishment has more than a tactical deficiency, however. They seem to have no principle that they offer or follow with any consistency. Their lack of articulation may be just a reflection of that lack of principle. It is hard to get to the point when you have no point to get to.

Ted Cruz filled a void. But the Republican establishment created the void.

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Republican Party Needs to Master the Message

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Financial Crisis a Joke at Secret Wall Street Party

(Newser) – After ruining the global economy, why not celebrate with a party that features homophobic jokes and musical acts in drag? That’s what reporter Kevin Roose discovered when he sneaked into the 2012 annual black-tie induction ceremony of Kappa Beta Phi, a secret Wall Street fraternity that’s been around since 1929. Big cheeses like billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, AIG CEO Bob Benmosche, and former Bear Stearns chair Alan “Ace” Greenberg took in the event’s camaraderie and heavy drinking at New York’s St. Regis Hotel ballroom in 2012. Among the lowlights:

A private-equity executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe told jokes like, Q: “What’s the biggest difference between Barney Frank and a Fenway Frank?” A: “Barney Frank comes in different-size buns.”

Bill Mulrow, top Blackstone Group executive, donned tie-dye clothes to portray a “liberal radical” while a hedge fund manager berated him: “Bill, look at you! You’re pathetic, you liberal! You need a bath!”

Investment banking CEO Warren Stephens hit the stage draped in a Confederate flag and sang a financial-crisis song to the tune of “Dixie”: “In Wall Street land we’ll take our stand, said Morgan and Goldman. But first we better get some loans, so quick, get to the Fed, man.”

Writing about the party in his new book, Young Money (excerpted at the Daily Intelligencer), Roose describes how the Wall Street types eventually spotted him and shuttled him into the hall—where they promised to take his calls if he “could just keep their privacy in mind.” Obviously, Roose didn’t play ball. His take-away from the event? “The upper ranks of finance are composed of people who have completely divorced themselves from reality. No self-aware and socially conscious Wall Street executive would have agreed to be part of a group whose tacit mission is to make light of the financial sector’s foibles.” Click for the full excerpt, including juicy photos and audio from the party.

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Financial Crisis a Joke at Secret Wall Street Party

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Video: Police Shoot Family’s Service Dog Outside 9-Year-Old’s Birthday Party

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

The New Workers" Party

The Obama administration’s response to the Congressional Budget Office’s prediction that Obamacare will cause 2.5 million fewer Americans to work in the coming years is an opportunity for Republicans to seize the moral high ground on the issue of work.

Rather than dispute the CBO’s analysis — which would have been awkward, as the White House has touted CBO’s predictions in the past — the administration is spinning the jobs loss as a kind of liberation. No longer tied down to the pesky need to earn a salary, some Americans will be able to follow their bliss.

The is part of a pattern from this administration (it would be crude to call it a “war on work”), of incentives, disincentives, taxes, regulations and other decisions that make jobs more difficult to find and unemployment more entrenched.

If a Republican were in the White House, the state of unemployment in America would be on everyone’s lips. As Michael Strain outlines in National Affairs, the absolute number of long-term unemployed and their share of the jobless are both at post-World War II highs. Five years after the end of the Great Recession, the economy still has 1.3 million fewer jobs than it had in 2008. The employment rate among 24-54-year-olds, the prime working population, plummeted in 2009 and has scarcely recovered since.

The Democrats have struck out in their efforts to improve the jobs picture. The $ 1 trillion stimulus package proved not to contain “shovel-ready jobs” (and few of any other kind). Obamacare encourages employers to reduce employees’ hours, increases taxes on a significant share of the economy, and adds layers of stifling bureaucracy to an already-burdened sector. Extending unemployment compensation to 99 weeks ameliorated the pain of being out of work, but may also have dulled the incentive to search for replacement jobs. The same was true of dramatically increasing the disability rolls — a permanent alternative to work. Increasing the minimum wage adds a barrier to employment just when we need fewer.

The administration touts the number of new jobs in the energy sector, but all of those have come from exploration on privately owned land. Pressure from environmentalists prevents the president from opening public lands to drilling and approving the Keystone pipeline. The symbol of this administration isn’t a guy in a hard hat but Pajama Boy cradling his hot cocoa.

During the Cold War, the surest sign that a political party would spell doom to the average person was if it had the word “workers” in its title. Leftist governments destroyed the standard of living of scores of millions of people around the globe (when they didn’t kill them outright). It was all in the name of the “workers” and sometimes “peasants.”

The decline of work is more than an economic challenge — though it is clearly that. It is also a profound moral, familial and even spiritual crisis for those affected. Americans derive a large measure of their self-esteem from work. Prolonged joblessness is linked to depression, disease, family breakups, suicide and, of course, poverty.

Just as Republicans are wise to offer alternatives to Obamacare (as Sens. Tom Coburn, Richard Burr and Orrin Hatch have recently done), they should be proposing policy initiatives to create jobs. Strain suggests several: relocation subsidies to help people move from high-unemployment regions to those with more job openings, eliminating barriers to entry, like excessive licensing requirements (it requires an average of 372 training days to become a cosmetologist, compared with 33 days to become an emergency medical technician), permitting more high-skilled immigration (25 percent of engineering and tech businesses founded between 1995 and 2005 had at least one immigrant founder), and decreasing the minimum wage for the first six months of employment for those who’ve been unemployed for longer than 27 weeks.

Part of the Democrats’ approach is to make unemployment more bearable, whether through Obamacare subsidies, disability payments or prolonged unemployment insurance. The other part of their program is to make unemployment more likely, through higher minimum wages, more regulation of businesses, a less friendly environment for investment, and sweetheart deals for politically connected firms.

Republicans should seize the opportunity to become the party of jobs — the true party of workers.

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The New Workers" Party

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Tea Party Republican spews vile, sexist Twitter attacks at Wendy Davis

By David Ferguson
Saturday, January 25, 2014 15:32 EST

Wendy Davis on Maddow July 2

Former head of the South Carolina Republican Party, Tea Party activist Todd Kincannon has unleashed a vile parade of hateful, sexist insults aimed at Texas Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis. According to Americans Against the Tea Party, the attacks began earlier this week and have only gotten uglier.

Kincannon has enlarged upon early Republican attacks on Davis, insinuating that because she supports a woman’s right to choose, she must be a promiscuous, man-eating tramp. Calling her a “coke whore” and insinuating that she cheated on her then-husband, Kincannon wrote, at one point, “I don’t care if folks attack Wendy Davis unfairly. I just want her attacked.”

He has tweeted, variously:

- I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was as much of a whore as Wendy Davis. And I’ve met some epic whores in my travels.

- I suspect Texas voters care that Wendy Davis was potentially going to Harvard coke parties instead of caring for her children.

- Make Wendy Davis worry that somebody will dig up a Harvard classmate that she did coke with. Torture her until she begs for it to stop.

- Wendy Davis has an abortion fetish and did in fact abandon her children.

- Make Wendy Davis wish she’d never been born. #InsertAbortionJokeHere

The fusillade of misogynist filth has gone on for days, now, with Kincannon furiously unloading on people defending Davis as well as fellow conservatives begging him not to further damage the party’s image.

“Lick my taint,” he angrily told one female critic.

Davis is a rising star in Texas politics. She stood firm in the face of Republicans’ attempts to curtail women’s right to choose in the state, filibustering a draconian Republican law in a show of resistance that brought thousands of supporters to the Austin statehouse. She announced in 2013 that she intends to run for governor.

David Ferguson

David Ferguson is an editor at Raw Story. He was previously writer and radio producer in Athens, Georgia, hosting two shows for Georgia Public Broadcasting and blogging at Firedoglake.com and elsewhere. He is currently working on a book.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The Emergence of a Freedom of Information Movement: Anonymous, WikiLeaks, Pirate Party, Iceland

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century

Reserve your ticket to the Christmas Party you will remember for a LIFETIME.

Join Ron and Carol Paul for a special, one night only, Christmas Celebration!

As an added bonus, your ticket guarantees you a professionally taken, personal photograph with yourself and Ron Paul!

It’s one thing to tell your friends and co-workers on Monday morning that you went to just a regular, old Christmas Party.

It’s another to tell them you went to the Christmas Party of the Century and spent it with Ron and Carol Paul!

More information & tickets here…

Where:

Hilton Houston Post Oak
2001 Post Oak Boulevard
Houston, TX 77056

When:

Friday, December 13, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (CST)

Ron Paul .com

Ron Paul’s Christmas Party of the Century