Tag: Campaign 2016
House Republicans Call Out Senate Republicans Over Government Shutdown Plan
Does Ted Cruz have a plan to get 41 votes? Does he have a strategy he’s executing on to get 41 votes? Not that I’m aware of. Has he ever come to the House leadership and said, ‘Here’s my plan to get 41 votes in the Senate, to hold the line so we can defund Obamacare?’ Never. No. He’s just on his twitter account attacking House Republicans.
A frustrated but anonymous “GOP leadership aide” to NBC News, criticizing tea party Republicans vying for the 2016 presidential race, like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who want to shut down the government (or at least pretend their goal isn’t to gain political advantage) in yet another attempt to derail the Affordable Care Act.
Marco the Scribe
Marco Rubio’s expanding his literary fame
With a tome on the GOP’s future, writ plain.
While his authorial aspirations
Won’t exceed literary expectations,
A book’s still a fine tool in a presidential campaign.
Dean Hopes Cruz Remains Just a ‘Senator for Texas’
He’s a slick spokesman and god help us if he gets to be anything more than the senator from Texas.
— Howard Dean, quoted by CNN, on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Hirsute of Lip
John Bolton’s seeking conservatives near and far
To help him be the GOP’s 2016 rising star.
But his big liability
Might require a pogonotomy.
See, we haven’t elected a mustachioed president since Teddy R.
Nope, Not Me
Some handle it gingerly, with a simple “No comment.”
Others play it coy, while some feign abashment.
But never risk admission
While masking naked ambition,
And always, always deny you’re running for president.
Christie Sounds Like a Presidential Contender
I think we have some folks who believe that our job is to be college professors. Now college professors are fine I guess. Being a college professor, they basically spout out ideas that nobody does anything about. For our ideas to matter we have to win. And if we don’t govern all we do is shout to the wind, and so I am going to do anything I need to do to win.
— New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), quoted by NBC News, at a closed-door meeting of the Republican National Committee.
Three Kinds of Republican Candidates in 2016
Our most recent rating of Republican presidential contenders features a top tier of three notably different candidates: A Midwestern governor (Scott Walker) who is known best by the activists who will help decide the nomination; a leading national figure (Chris Christie) who has irked conservatives; and a firebrand senator (Rand Paul) with devoted supporters who would shake up the party’s platform and, perhaps, identity.
— Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
Citizens Untied: NBC, CNN Getting Millions in Free Publicity for Their Hillary Bios from an Unlikely Source – RNC Chair Reince Priebus
Just 32 months after the Republican majority on the Supreme Court struck down campaign laws could that had prevented Citizens United, an anti-Clinton lobbying group, from airing a 2002 propaganda hit piece against then-Sen. Hillary Clinton — and just nine months after a campaign in which the Citizen United ruling helped the Republican National Committee and others raise millions of dollars for Mitt Romney’s failed presidential bid — the RNC has executed a dramatic 180-degree reversal on its position against censoring Hillary Clinton film bios.
To put it another way, Republicans were against censoring Hillary biopics before they were for censoring them.
