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Duane: Liberty Caucus Excludes R’s




Liberty Republicans Set Expo In CdA




County GOP Dumps Party Purity Test




Local R’s Oppose CdA Anti-Bias Law



Local GOP May Censure 4 Solons



Local GOP May Censure 4 Legislators





Local GOP May Oppose Anti-Bias Law





Regan Questions Partisan Label




GOP Leader: Embrace NIdaho Values



Republicans, To The Right March



Old Party Isn’t So Grand Any More




GOP Removes Obama Punching Bag


Question: Funny or tasteless?

New Yorker Focuses On Bryan Fischer



Roberts Weighs Challenge To Moyle



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Johnson: GOP’s Ever Rightward March


Question: Can the Tea Party survive without moderate Republican votes?

North Idaho GOP Rift Surprises Mack



CMR: No Republican ‘War On Women’



Richard Mack to speak in Spokane, CdA

A former Arizona sheriff revered by the militia movement for his outspoken criticism of gun control and government tyranny is returning to the Inland Northwest for meetings with local GOP groups, triggering a rift among some Republicans.

Richard Mack, who now lives in Texas and is running for U.S. Congress, is a self-described conservative constitutionalist with ties to various political parties and movements. He served as sheriff of rural Graham County, Arizona as a Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for governor of Utah as a Libertarian and now is trying to unseat a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the GOP’s upcoming Texas primary.

Read he rest of my story here.

Past coverage:

Dec. 6, 2009: A passion rising

Herzog, 5 Others Take On Tondee



Question: Who is incumbent Tondee's biggest competitor in this race?

NI R’s Oppose ‘Obamacare’ Exchange



Beleaguered Cain Reassessing Bid



Bonner Tea Party Eyes GOP Control



July 4 Parades Turn Kids Into Repubs

All that fireworks-watching, flag-waving and potato salad-eating this weekend could in fact lead to a vote for the Republican party for your child. And the stats from Harvard back up the claim. When children were exposed at a young age to the Americana fanfare associated with the Fourth of July, they were more likely to vote Republican and make campaign contributions to the party. Harvard researchers David Yanagizawa-Drott and Andreas Madestam found that kids who attended one rain-free July 4th celebration before the age of 18 were four percent more likely to vote Republican before the age of 40. And whether or not they went to the polls, young Independence Day revelers were more likely to identify with the right wing by 2 percent/Nick Carbone. Time. More here.  H/T: Christa Hazel (Stebbijo/Stebbijo's Place photo)

Question: Do these findings make you more/less likely to take your children to Fourth of July parades?

When the news becomes relevant…

Good evening, Netizens…

If the Obama administration had chosen to ignore the potential massacre of the rebels in Libya, Republicans would right now be having a field day, condemning him for weakness and moral cowardice. The deafening howls of outrage from the Republicans would make the evening news ring like a gong.

Now on the other hand, if the president were a Republican and had organized the international coalition that stopped Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in their tracks, Republicans would right now be cheering him in the streets, and unquestionably attempting to wire him/her up for a certain reelection a year and one half from now.

Instead, Republicans in Congress are biting at Barack Obama’s Libyan efforts at every turn. They seem more interested in defeating Obama now than they are defeating Gaddaffi's forces.

The national news, it seems, is all who and what you believe. Of course, your results may differ.


GOP leaders: Budget alternative likely

OLYMPIA — Republican leaders say they may offer an alternative to House Democrats' supplemental budget, which is itself an alternative to Gov. Chris Gregoire's proposal.

At a noon press conference, House Minority Leader Richard DeBolt of Chehalis said Republicans have enough differences with the Democratic plan announced Tuesday they may offer a “striker” — that is, a substitute proposal — when the spending plan for the next 5 months reaches the House floor.

“We're floating up a test balloon to see if anybody (from the Democratic side) comes along,” DeBolt said.

Republicans are particularly opposed to transfers, a term for using money in separate funds for general operating fund expenses. If they can't swap their plan for the Democrats' budget, they say they won't support any spending plan that move money around or relies on what Gregoire acknowledged was an accounting gimmick, delaying a payment to schools due on June 30, the last day of this biennium, until July 1, so it would show up in the next biennium.

“We're very clear about not doing any transfers,” Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt said. Republicans believe the delayed payment would create a  hole at the end of the 2011-13 budget cycle that would lead to a call for higher taxes at a time when the supermajority requirement could be more easily amended.

Today’s fun video: Red state, blue state

This is an interesting depiction of the presidential vote for Democrats and Republicans over the last 90 years compiled by David Sparks of Duke University.

Anyone want to suggest a sound track to go along with it?

Dale: Props For Larry Spencer

Dale Hedden: I do believe he (Larry Spencer) causes problems, problems as some people see trouble. We enjoyed his company. We don’t know Larry well, but we saw a man who put a great deal into what we believe is very much like the serious adjustments seen in national politics. It is obvious that Republicans lost in this past election. The platform of the Republican party allowed for people to make a stand where most Americans wanted us to be. The incredible upheaval of this election proved, old guard Republicans must change or be moved out, voted out. That is trouble, a problem for many. It is not Larry Spencer who will be asked to leave. Watch.

Question: Do you see a new world order breaking out in the national Republican Party, too?

Repubs Grab House, Gain In Senate

The party that controls the House holds crucial power, taking the lead in writing bills and deciding which to bring up for a vote and when. A Republican House could pass legislation, such as promised tax relief, on simple majority votes without any Democratic support. Democrats will still hold the Senate, but Republicans will have a much stronger position and more leverage in negotiations thanks to their party running the House. Democrats also lack the 60 votes necessary in the Senate to stop a procedural hurdle known as filibuster, which gives Republicans power to block legislation/Thomas Ferraro, Reuters. More here.

Question: What do the national election results mean for Congress?

Palin: GOP Getting ‘Last Shot”

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said she could conceive of a third party in U.S. politics if newly elected Republicans stray from their principles. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and potential candidate for president in 2012, said the next two years will be some Republicans’ “last shot” to prove themselves as authentic conservatives. “Some in the GOP, it’s their last shot,” Palin said Monday evening on Fox News. “It’s their last chance, and we will lose faith and we will be disappointed and disenchanted from them if they start straying from the bedrock principles that can grow our economy/Michael O’Brien, The Hill. More here.

Question: Is it finally time for a third party in this country?