There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.
Eddie WhitlockStichwörter: politics voting republicans
Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.
Bill MaherStichwörter: republicans healthcare tiger-woods
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
George OrwellStichwörter: liberty power freedom democracy free-speech media elections responsibility vote government voters voting president political-science politics-observation republicans voting-rights democracy-freedom democracy-voting democracy-fascism politics-science politicsics
In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years.
Charlie SavageStichwörter: politics hypocrisy republicans hypocrites sissy chicken-hawks
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.
T. Rafael CiminoStichwörter: politics america united-states political-philosophy political americans politicians republicans republican nuclear-weapons obama nuclear obama-speeches george-bush atomic-bomb
If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.
David AxelrodStichwörter: politics government democrats republicans political-parties u-s wealthy political-campaigns campaign-finance donations fund-raising gilded-age robber-barons
We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised "awesome" in a week of scripted "blah".
But because it advanced our understanding.
This president has issues, and there are very legitimate debates about his policies and actions, and successes and or failures as president - I mean, tune in next week. But I could never wrap my head around why the world, and the president republicans describe, bears so little resemblance to the world and the president that I experience. And now I know why :
There is a president Obama that only republicans can see
Stichwörter: politics republicans presidents washington-dc-politics current-events tea-party clint-eastwood tea-party-movement
The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.
T. Rafael CiminoStichwörter: politics political democrats republicans
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.
George PackerStichwörter: politics politicians democrats republicans 1970s bipartisanship washington-dc u-s-politics
Romney sounds like he wants to be the nice uncle in a sitcom, Santorum sounds like he wants to be a twelfth-century archbishop, Gingrich sounds like he wants to go to outer space, and Paul sounds like he came from there.
John BarnesStichwörter: republicans political-satire 2012
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