Tag: Republicans

The President now feels comfortable meeting with the Prime Minister at the UN after winning the battle to keep Congress from turning down the agreement with a veto-proof majority.

There are 188 Democrats in the House and 44 in the Senate, and over the next two months millions of dollars and unprecedented lobbying efforts will be invested in courting their votes on the Iran nuclear deal.

Carson's never having held a political office is a disadvantage - and a big advantage for those fed up with professional politicians.

How many Democrats, especially the Jewish ones, would vote against the idea that Iran recognizes Israel?

A Reuters poll shows that America is increasingly polarized, especially about President Obama.

The Senate formed a bipartisan panel investigating money from the Obama adm. to an anti-Bibi group

Democrats did not sponsor but also did not try to block the resolution.

A large plurality disapproves of the Congressional invitation to Netanyahu, but a majority thinks Obama should meet with him.

There may no longer be a unifying “center” to hold the GOP together.

By giving the issue to Congress, he evades sole responsibility and makes himself look "principled."

To assume that your opponents have any decency, as the Republicans habitually do, is to be left behind in Politics 1.0.

The progressive consolidation imagines that organization can contain the messier side of man.

Are we on an inevitable evolutionary trajectory rising up or are we doomed to repeat dark ages, progress and then dark ages again?

The heat being generated from the Keystone controversy may well have had an influence upon Obama's gaffe in comparing U.S.-Canada relations to Israel-Palestinian relations.

It is unconscionable of Obama to handle the sequestration threat the way he has - crippling our ability to readily strike Iran.

Making gay marriage not just value neutral but something positive. It is in effect koshering a forbidden lifestyle.

There is a foreign-policy aspect of 'perception benefits' Obama hopes to garner from a photo-op tour of Israel.

The fault lies with both the executive and legislative branches of government. Neither wants to budge from their ideological positions.

The “Unbreakable Alliance” motto for President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel next month may be undermined by massive budget cuts in US aid for Israel’ anti-terrorist missile programs.

Republicans who try to adapt to liberal values are pursuing a dead end.

Prohibition is long gone but the consequences of it are still with us today.

It will be a long, hard road to traverse, but there is no short cut and it can succeed.

Crowd culture expects everyone to follow the leader, to join the meme, to move with the flow, but that is something that crazy people cannot do.

Can American traditionalists quadruple their numbers in 40 years?

The difference between victory and defeat often comes down to morale.

So long as we obsess over abortion, gay marriage, and contraception to the exclusion of any other values, we cannot fix our problems.

For most of the past two years, if not the past four, many conservatives and Republicans assumed that Barack Obama could not be reelected. A poor economy, an unpopular liberal agenda shoved down the throat of the country, and a largely uninspiring presidential leadership style combined to create a widespread belief on the right that the 2012 election would be a lay-up for them.

WASHINGTON – The Republican Party as a whole is reconsidering how it might have done better in an election that saw the party fail to win the White House and suffer modest losses in Congress, and Jewish Republicans and conservatives are coming forward with their own insights.

His move leaves Senate Democrats with a 32-31 majority come January. Two races have not been decided yet, and the Democrats are leading in both.

The morning after last week’s vice presidential debate, Democrats were delighted. Vice President Joe Biden’s obnoxious display was exactly what was needed to cheer them up after a week of morose speculation about why President Obama was so passive and uninspired during the first presidential debate with Mitt Romney.