Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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Friday, December 31, 2010
GOP controlled House will read US Constitution aloud
Image via WikipediaTwo new rules will give Constitution a starring role in GOP-controlled House: "When Republicans take over the House next week, they will do something that apparently has never been done before in the chamber's 221-year history:" They will read the US Constitution aloud.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Backlash feared as some in GOP push social issues | Gay Online News
Image via WikipediaAlthough fixing the economy is the top priority, Republicans who won greater control of state governments in this month’s election are considering how to pursue action on a range of social issues, including abortion, gun rights and even divorce laws.Backlash feared as some in GOP push social issues | Gay Online News
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
O'Brien gets GOP nomination for Speaker of the House - Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010
Image via WikipediaO'Brien, 59, is an attorney who was just elected to his third term in the House. Much of his support comes from the right wing of the GOP. He serves as co-chair of the conservative House Republican Alliance. He also had the endorsement of the Republican Liberty Alliance of New Hampshire.
During his first four years in the House, O'Brien pushed for reform of ethics laws for public officials; constitutional amendment to reform education funding; reforms and changes in the state's right-to-know law.
O'Brien opposed gay marriage and what he called the "unneeded and dangerous" bathroom bill on transgender rights.
He has sponsored two bills that would allow use of the death penalty for murders committed during home invasions.
Items on the HRA agenda this year include tax cuts, tax credits for home and private schooling, repeal of gay marriage, passage of a parental notification act, tougher immigration enforcement and joining a lawsuit to block federal healthcare reform.O'Brien gets GOP nomination for Speaker of the House - Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Gay GOP Overestimated Own Power; Underestimated Tea Party Opposition
Image via WikipediaNot only did GOProud overestimate its own power, it vastly underestimated that of its opposition within the GOP and Tea Party. Assuming that conservative ideas of liberty mean more personal rights, with the main focus on fiscal issues, they now run smack into an opposing conservative ideology: That of the moral order being the foundation of small government idealism.
Anyone doubting the truth of this need only visit some of the heartland Tea Party forums to see, to sense palpably, what anger has risen to the top: and to read the "no sale, perverts!" and other of the literally hundreds and hundreds of Tea Party citizen retorts such as the following sample from Free Republic:
Gay Republicans Ask for Social Issue Cease-Fire | Religion Dispatches
Anyone doubting the truth of this need only visit some of the heartland Tea Party forums to see, to sense palpably, what anger has risen to the top: and to read the "no sale, perverts!" and other of the literally hundreds and hundreds of Tea Party citizen retorts such as the following sample from Free Republic:
"Anyone who is truely a TEA party member will reject these social Marxists.
The agenda of the perversion rights movements are not at all a Constitutional movement or a limited government movement.
These perverts who want perversion rights or the right to murder babies are not worthy of a vioce in the TEA party.
These perverts should be called out and put in their
place.". . . They can screw each other in the privacy of the bedroom but they shouldn’t expect the state to give them any new benefits.. . I totally agree. And I don't want to even hear the words "gay," "lesbian," or "transexual."
“Already, there are Washington insiders and special interest groups that hope to co-opt the Tea Party’s message and use it to push their own agenda – particularly as it relates to social issues. We are disappointed but not surprised by this development. We recognize the importance of values but believe strongly that those values should be taught by families and our houses of worship and not legislated from Washington, D.C.
We urge you to stay focused on the issues that got you and your colleagues elected and to resist the urge to run down any social issue rabbit holes in order to appease the special interests.”
Oh, this is priceless. Thank you, idiots for telling us how afraid you are that YOUR special interests might be in jeopardy by the Conservative landslide.
This is a pure fear reaction. Especially since it was given to Politico first. If you want to sort the gold from the silt you’ve got to shake things up first. The silt is showing itself.
“Already, there are Washington insiders and special interest groups that hope to co-opt the Tea Party’s message and use it to push their own agenda – particularly as it relates to social issues. We are disappointed but not surprised by this development. We recognize the importance of values but believe strongly that those values should be taught by families and our houses of worship and not legislated from Washington, D.C.
We urge you to stay focused on the issues that got you and your colleagues elected and to resist the urge to run down any social issue rabbit holes in order to appease the special interests.”
Oh, this is priceless. Thank you, idiots for telling us how afraid you are that YOUR special interests might be in jeopardy by the Conservative landslide.
This is a pure fear reaction. Especially since it was given to Politico first. If you want to sort the gold from the silt you’ve got to shake things up first. The silt is showing itself.
Gay Republicans Ask for Social Issue Cease-Fire | Religion Dispatches
"GOProud’s letter is at once bold and insulting. Bold because they have walked into the lion’s den and asked kindly not to be eaten for supper. Insulting because it shows that even gay and lesbian people will give up fighting for their civil rights if it means a few more bucks in their pockets or a few more chickens in their pots.
GOProud, however, has sadly underestimated both their influence and their opponents on this issue. While gay voters did help the Tea Partiers in their takeover of the House, they still played a miniscule role—not enough of a role to make them king makers by any stretch of the imagination. Also, they seemed to miss the memo that Tea Partiers are, by and large, religious conservatives.
Polls show that nearly half (47 percent) consider themselves part of the religious right, with more than 80 percent identifying as Christian. Nearly two-thirds say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases and only 18 percent support marriage equality for gays and lesbians. So, while GOProud and the Tea Partiers they helped to elect may agree on many fiscal issues, there remains a wide gap on social issues.
Part of the problem here is that Tea Partiers spent most of their campaigns talking about fiscal issues and not the social issues. Those gay and lesbian voters who wanted their vote to be a “rejection of Democrats” and voted for Tea Partiers because of their fiscal sensibilities have just sent a passel of anti-gay Republicans to the Hill."Gay Republicans Ask for Social Issue Cease-Fire | Religion Dispatches
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Democrats Stand to Lose if GOP changes course on Gay Marriage
Image via WikipediaIn August, gay advocate David Badash of the New Civil Rights Movement wrote an Op-Ed piece for Change.Org. in which he pointed out the fear which drives GOP members like Ken Blackwell.
Referring to Blackwell's piece entitled, Disaster Looms if GOP Changes Course on Gay Marriage, Badash retorted with some words about recently outed former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman:
Which brings me to this question: Might some of the bleak predictions of an anti-gay rights backlash under the new GOP House post-midterms - my own included - be driven by this same fear, coming from the liberal perspective? For what could prove more disastrous at this juncture than that the GOP become socially moderate? With such a change, the Democrats would lose a huge advantage formerly held with the electorate...
Or are the dire predictions of the GOP having used the gays, only to throw them over in favor of extremist Tea Partiers and the Christian right still valid? Time will tell... in the meantime, it is something to ponder, and watch closely...
Despite the mixed feelings of the LGBT community at large, Mehlman's coming out does change the game. He brings credibility, fund-raising resources, and something the current de facto leaders of today's Republican Party fear most: a modern-day, under-fifty, politically well-regarded bridge from the GOP of the Bush dynasty to today's out-of-control, Tea Party infested buffoonery that is the Republican Party.
Mehlman has promised to advocate, and fund-raise, for marriage equality, and this scares Blackwell.
Badash then sums up with these closing words:
The disaster of which Blackwell speaks is not for the GOP. It is disaster for Blackwell, who will be seen as out-of-touch, old hat, a bigot, and a homophobe when the GOP finally accepts marriage equality, and when marriage equality becomes the law of the land.
In fact, should the GOP "change course on gay marriage," the winner would actually be the GOP, and the effective loser would be the Democratic Party, who would lose votes to the GOP. The other loser?
Ken Blackwell.
Or are the dire predictions of the GOP having used the gays, only to throw them over in favor of extremist Tea Partiers and the Christian right still valid? Time will tell... in the meantime, it is something to ponder, and watch closely...
Neil Howe and William Strauss, in their epic work, The Fourth Turning, pointed out that, after the Civil War, certain socially progressive movements went underground, and has to wait decades to emerge, and begin again, from scratch. Could this be gay marriage's fate? Or is Badash correct, and will the GOP choose progress over a regress back into the bigotry of the Christian right?
Conservatives hope for gay marriage ban in N.C.
Conservatives hope for gay marriage ban in N.C. :: WRAL.comThe economy dominated the fall campaign, but leaders among North Carolina's social conservatives believe the Republican sweep at the Legislature should finally permit a vote on a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast that hasn't approved an amendment restricting marriage to one man and one woman. Democratic leadership in the Legislature have refused to consider GOP-penned bills on the issue for several years, and gay rights organizations have offered strong opposition to what it called imprinting discrimination permanently into state law.
Now with Republicans solidly in the majority in the General Assembly starting this January for the first time in more than a century, chances for a vote in the House and Senate are fairly strong, GOP lawmakers said.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Elderly voters the biggest push behind the GOP wave « The Washington Independent
Elderly voters the biggest push behind the GOP wave « The Washington Independent
Combine the swing among seniors with the fact that young people largely stayed home from the polls last Tuesday, and the landslide seem less like a shift in the national opinion and more like the product of simple demographic mathematics.
Combine the swing among seniors with the fact that young people largely stayed home from the polls last Tuesday, and the landslide seem less like a shift in the national opinion and more like the product of simple demographic mathematics.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Now that the GOP has taken the House
Image via WikipediaNow that the GOP has taken the House, and the Democratic majority in the Senate has shrunk, it is wise to keep an eye on the GOP Contract with America. Time will tell....
Will Banning Gay Marriage Be in the GOP's New Contract With America? | Gay Rights | Change.org
Gays Reassess After GOP Gains | News | The Advocate
Image via WikipediaThe very best comment left on this article sums it up nicely:I see the Log Cabin Republicans (and their "fellow travelers") are doing what they do best: bending over and telling the GOP to "do them"! Yes, the Democrats may not have delivered EVERYTHING, but the Republi-Cons won't deliver ANYTHING. Privatize Social Security as the way to get benefits for your "partners"? Want to bet the "traditional values crowd" will insist that such accounts can only be left to family members, since anything else would "weaken marriage"!
Gays Reassess After GOP Gains | News | The Advocate
Sunday, October 24, 2010
What impact will 2010 elections have on same-sex marriage movement?
Image via WikipediaIt is fair to say that, according to the current political winds, which everyone must accept can change rapidly, that the GOP is going to do very well this November. This success will undoubtedly create a safer legislative environment for the institution of marriage and families.
Having said that, one must keep in mind why the GOP is expected to do so well this year. After all, they are not necessarily popular with the voters, either. In this way, many frustrated and angry voters will be voting Republican this year as it is the lesser of two evils.
So why are the Republicans expecting huge political gains this November? The answer to that question is what (or more likely, who) gays and lesbians can blame and conservatives can thank, for stalled legislative efforts to redefine marriage in the next couple years.
Having said that, one must keep in mind why the GOP is expected to do so well this year. After all, they are not necessarily popular with the voters, either. In this way, many frustrated and angry voters will be voting Republican this year as it is the lesser of two evils.
So why are the Republicans expecting huge political gains this November? The answer to that question is what (or more likely, who) gays and lesbians can blame and conservatives can thank, for stalled legislative efforts to redefine marriage in the next couple years.
Case in point: Gay Marriage will be affected more than some would imagine:
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Will Republicans echo the AFA's campaign to impeach Prop. 8 judge? - War Room - Salon.com
Image via WikipediaA right-wing group wants Vaughn Walker off the bench. What will Newt and Sarah say?
Will Republicans echo the AFA's campaign to impeach Prop. 8 judge? - War Room - Salon.com
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