Year: 2015
Huckabee – Whose Son Tortured and Killed a Dog – Should Avoid Bashing the Obamas’ Parenting Skills
Fox News fired Mike Huckabee from his job as a chatshow host last week when he revealed he was testing the waters for another presidential run. (Interesting to know that Fox has some ethics.) Suddenly finding himself outside the right-wing limelight, Huckabee urgently needed attention, so he took a cheap shot at the Obamas’ parenting skills:
Hatch Thinks Third Time’s the Charm for Romney
“I’d like to see him very badly run again. I think if he did decide to run, this third time, he’d win.
— Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), in an interview with Yahoo News, on Mitt Romney.
Obama Approval Is Rising
46%
Of Americans now approve of the job President Obama is doing, while just as many disapprove, a new CBS News poll finds. His approval rating is now at the level it was a year ago, and has risen seven points since last October.
Big Government GOP Bill to Deport Undocumented Families Would Add $285 Billion to US Debt
As its first major action in the 114th Congress, the GOP tea-party controlled House voted yesterday to deport the nearly 12 million people living in the United States illegally, including many families who have been U.S. residents for decades.
Republicans, who won additional seats in the House and control of the Senate in the midterm elections, claimed their action to overturn Pres. Obama’s executive action to stop mass deportations expressed the will of voters. In fact, the president did not issue his executive action until after the Nov. 4 elections. In their messaging about the bill, GOP representatives persistently referred to the president’s order as “illegal amnesty,” ignoring the fact that recent Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan, issued 18 similar executive orders revamping immigration policies.
Despite the fact that terror attacks in Paris had drawn international attention less than a week earlier, Republicans gamed a crucial funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security with partisan ploys intended to force mass deportations. GOP amendments to the bill funding the government’s anti-terrorism activities targeted undocumented residents, especially the “Dreamers,” young people who were brought into the country when they were children or infants:
Paul: Romney Run the ‘Definition of Insanity’
It’s sort of what Einstein said, that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. … A couple of months ago he said that he’d had his chance and it was time for somebody new. He was probably right when he said that. I think we do need somebody and something new.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), to the New Hampshire Journal.
More than Half of Voters Don’t Care About Electing First Female President
38%
Of Americans say they hope the U.S. will elect a female president in their lifetime, while 57% say it doesn’t matter to them, a new Pew Research survey finds.
Paul: Romney Is ‘Yesterday’s News’
If Romney runs to the right of Jeb Bush, he’ll still be to the left of the rest of the party, so it may be a difficult spot to occupy. Look, I like Governor Romney, I like him personally, I think he is a good person, I think he was a great businessman. But you know that’s yesterday’s news.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by the Louisville Courier Journal.
Paul Characterizes GOP as ‘Same Old’ Same Old
You need a candidate who reaches out to new constituencies and is able to bring new people into the party. Because if we do the same old, same old candidates, we are going to get the same old result.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), “back in insurgent mode, lobbing bombs at his potential Republican presidential rivals and looking to take back a political spotlight that Bush and Romney have been hogging lately,” Politico reports. “Paul is also heading to New Hampshire and Nevada this week, hoping to strike a fire with voters who want a new voice to carry the GOP’s message to the White House.”
How the GOP’s ‘Five-Ring Circus’ Is Shaping Up
This from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight: “The chart is an oversimplification, but it recognizes the GOP’s dynamics are more complex than a simple left-right spectrum would imply. Some wings overlap more with others. For instance, a candidate could easily have a lot of appeal to both tea party and libertarian voters. But it’s unlikely that one candidate would simultaneously be the choice of both Christian conservatives and moderate voters.”
