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( fr ) The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Democratic Party. It is often referred to as the GOP, or Grand Old Party, although it is the younger of the two major parties. Currently, during the 110th Congress, it is the minority party in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Beginning in 2007, Republicans hold a minority of governorships and control a minority of state legislatures. The current President of the United States (2001-present), George W. Bush, is a member of this party.

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GOP Must Stand Firm on Obama's Programs
Even if Obama sheds the public option on health insurance providers and lets all the participants in his insurance exchange come from the private sector, the government-forced rationing that will still ensue will make this one of the most unpopular programs of all time. Republicans should not, under any circumstances, give this bill even a single vote. To do so would be to give Obama an out, doom America to a deteriorating healthcare system and take away the Republican Party's best shot for re [Read more]
2 days ago on NewsMax.com  (Republican Party) 
North of the Creaux's Nest
WHITE MALE DOMINATED, DEAD AND BURIEDGov. Mark Sanford, of South Carolina, and Sen. John Ensign, of Nevada, both are Republicans and both caught with their britches down. Running around being unfaithful, living cheaters' lives is not reserved only for Republicans but these two dudes, on the soapbox, preached living holier than thou. Both called for President Bill Clinton's impeachment. Both put out the word constantly that the Republican Party lives according to the word of God and that those in [Read more]
3 days ago on TheRecordLive.com  (Republican Party) 
Lawmakers want governor to step down on his own
“(Lawmakers) have given (Sanford) 72 hours of breathing room,” said Katon Dawson, immediate past chairman of the state Republican Party, who said he has spent the last few days playing referee between lawmakers who want the governor out and those who want to give him another chance. “But I think, early next week, their patience will run out.” [Read more]
5 days ago on The Herald | HeraldOnline.com  (Republican Party) 
GOP is broken; who will fix it?
Nevada has become ground zero for the troubles besetting Republicans nationally. In analyzing South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's admission this week to having an affair with an Argentinean woman, pundits have mentioned U.S. Sen. John Ensign or Gov. Jim Gibbons, or both, as examples of the Republican Party's broader troubles. [Read more]
6 days ago on Reno Gazette Journal  (Republican Party) 
Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran
by Norman SolomonWhen approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel. The leadership of GOP reaction and the leadership of Bolivarian revolution have bought into the convenient delusion that long-suffering Iranian people require assistance from the U.S. government to resist the regime in Tehran.Inside Iran, advocates for reform and human rights have long pleaded for the U.S. government to keep out of Iranian affairs. After [Read more]
7 days ago on Atlantic Free Press  (Republican Party) 
Could Sanford split the GOP?
To be fair, Ensign and Sanford were also being critical of Clinton?s perjury to a grand jury. However, it is clear to anyone that the Republican Party has defined itself of the party of ?family values? and moral turpitude. As more and more of the Republican?s voting base grows older and passes away, the party must attract younger voters in order to survive. This younger generation is typically more socially liberal, and scandals like Sanford?s will certainly not help attract that new voting bloo [Read more]
7 days ago on Andalusia Star-News  (Republican Party) 
Yet Again, The Right Is Wrong ? This Time About Cap-And-Trade Costs
The 1,200-page long energy bill narrowly passed the House last night but that hasn't stopped the climate change deniers from warning of our rack-and-ruin if the Senate approves a parallel measure.Don’t conservatives, ConservaDems, the Republican Party and the rest of the climate change is an expensive hoax crowd ever get tired of being wrong?For several years, business lobbyists along with GOP and other right wing mouthpieces in Congress and on the air have been yowling that the US canno [Read more]
7 days ago on Daily Kos  (Republican Party) 
Full-Spectrum Idiocy
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions — but parallel. The leadership of GOP reaction and the leadership of Bolivarian revolution have bought into the convenient delusion that long-suffering Iranian people require assistance from the U.S. government to resist the regime in Tehran.Inside Iran, advocates for reform and human rights have long pleaded for the U.S. government to keep out of Iranian affairs. After the CIA orga [Read more]
8 days ago on Guerrilla News Network  (Republican Party) 
The Sins Of Governor Sanford
Sanford's admission of an extramarital affair is just the latest sex scandal to rock the Republican Party. It follows Nevada Sen. John Ensign's confession last week to a similar transgression. And fellow Nevada Republican, Gov. Jim Gibbons, has been in hot water over salacious details regarding his ongoing divorce proceedings.Of course, sexual indiscretions are hardly the property of one party. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace last year in a prostitution scandal, and New Jersey's [Read more]
9 days ago on NPR  (Republican Party) 
Satire: Virile Republican Leaders Spearhead Party Renaissance
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was already being talked about as a potential Republican Party standard-bearer in the 2012 election. Youthful, good-looking, a Southerner, and a Washington outsider, he seemed to have much of what the party needed to energize a comeback from the disappointments of the last two election cycles.Now happy Party strategists are basking in an unexpected bonus. This week Sanford polished his virile image with an announcement that instead of hiking the Appalachian [Read more]
9 days ago on Blogcritics.org  (Republican Party) 
Full-Spectrum Idiocy: GOP and Chavez on Iran
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel. The leadership of GOP reaction and the leadership of Bolivarian revolution have bought into the convenient delusion that long-suffering Iranian people require assistance from the U.S. government to resist the regime in Tehran.Inside Iran, advocates for reform and human rights have long pleaded for the U.S. government to keep out of Iranian affairs. After the CIA organize [Read more]
9 days ago on Empire Report  (Republican Party) 
AMERICAS NEWS AT 0500 GMT
TOP STORIESUS-LEAVING IRAQWASHINGTON _ The Obama administration concludes the risk of a security collapse in Iraq is too slight to slow plans for withdrawing U.S. troops. By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor. AP Photos. AP Graphic BAGHDAD BOMBING.US-GOVERNOR'S TRIPCOLUMBIA, South Carolina _ The governor of South Carolina and rumored 2012 presidential contender tearfully confesses to having an affair with a woman in Argentina, dealing the latest blow to a struggling Republican Party. By Ji [Read more]
9 days ago on PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)  (Republican Party) 
Gail Collins: Are there quality Republican presidential candidates
The saga of Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, who resigned from a Republican Party leadership position this week because of a sex scandal, contained one surprising piece of information. Obviously, it was something other than the fact that a U.S. senator, who is extremely vocal about family values, had a messy affair with a former campaign staff member. What struck me was that virtually every story about Ensign's fall from grace included a reference to his having been considered a possible contender f [Read more]
10 days ago on Post-Bulletin  (Republican Party) 
Charles Grassley is a member of an extreme right wing organization
I read in the discussion section on politicalwire.com the fascinating history of the Republican Party: in 1964 Barry Goldwater was considered an extremist far right Republican, now the party has moved so much further to the right that many political commentators regard Goldwater's views as liberal (or at most slightly conservative) leaning libertarianism.This seems to be the same thing with Charles Grassley. He is, I believe, now considered one of the more moderate Republicans.Well, whether ther [Read more]
11 days ago on Daily Kos  (Republican Party) 
The path to the future requires a return to the roots
By Frank Salvato web posted June 22, 2009 As President Barack Obama thunders ahead with his liberal agenda, unencumbered by any significant opposition in either chamber of Congress, the focus for the Right has been on how to re-invent the Republican Party so as to be competitive in the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. This renewed and urgent focus is more akin to a meeting of rival mafia families, each faction unwilling to cede influence, power, control or status to another, than it is a quorum [Read more]
13 days ago on Enter Stage Right  (Republican Party) 
Palin Accuses Letterman of Seeking PR: Then Hypocritically Skews
In fact the worst that can be said is that his gag writers should do a little better research before committing their boss to a faux pas, but frankly no one ever talks about Palin's other daughters. Conversely, Bristol has been the butt of jokes for almost a year, has appeared on talk shows herself and was paraded by Palin and the Republican Party along with her then-fiancee, Levi Johnston, on the stage of the Republican Convention and throughout the campaign. No doubt to soften the pro-family [Read more]
21 days ago on Huffington Post  (Republican Party) 
Jose, shifting demographics, and the GOP outlook
Home >Somos Austin >Archives >2009 > June > 13 > Entry Jose, shifting demographics, and the GOP outlookBy Juan Castillo | Saturday, June 13, 2009, 02:21 PMThe No. 1 name for male newborns in Texas is Jose, GOP political consultant Mike Murphy writes in Time magazine.Actually, that distinction was in 2007, according to the Social Security Administration, but Murphy uses it to make a point that the nation's demographics are changing in “a way that is deadly for the Republican Party as it ex [Read more]
21 days ago on Austin American-Statesman  (Republican Party) 
How Newt Gingrich Sabotaged The 'Gingrich Revolution'
Cheney and Powell have been publicly at odds with each other in recent weeks, disputing the very nature of the GOP. And the specifics of their quarrel are central to the character of the party, to the point that the outcome of this debate may very well determine whether or not the Republican Party has any hope for a future. That this debate is even occurring, in the face of such unfettered Democrat extremism, is itself a travesty. A principled conservative opposition party could be ruling the da [Read more]
22 days ago on GOPUSA  (Republican Party) 
The man who fought the machine
Tom Gill / When the post-WWII political history of Hawaii is cemented, former Lt. Gov. Tom Gill is a figure whose story should be remembered, retold and revered.Gill, who died last week, played a key role in the ?Democratic revolution? of 1954, which shifted the Islands? balance of political power away from the big-business-dominated Republican Party to the labor-oriented Democrats. Serving in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1962, he helped shape the Civil Rights Act. In Hawaii he helped cr [Read more]
24 days ago on Honolulu Weekly  (Republican Party) 
How Sotomayor, Perry and Hutchison are connected
The national script for the Rick Perry-Kay Bailey Hutchison battle royale is pretty well set -- it represents no less than the future direction of the Republican Party. Wayne Slater examined that here, and we'll have a lot more to say about it as the campaign heats up. But today, the National Journal's John Mercurio has an interesting take about how the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and the GOP's efforts to win over Hispanics will factor in. He writes:Perry doesn't have t [Read more]
some time ago on Dallas Morning News  (Republican Party) 
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