Showing posts with label Republican Party (United States). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republican Party (United States). Show all posts
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Ohio McDonalds told workers to vote GOP
McDonald’s ‘intimidated’ workers into voting GOP from the Raw Story
"Officials in the Democratic Party in Ohio are calling on officials to investigate the owner of McDonald's restaurants in the state over what they say is an attempt to "intimidate" employees into voting Republican.Employees at as many as 12 McDonald's restaurants received a letter with their most recent paycheck urging them to vote for Republican candidates, or else future paychecks would be in jeopardy.
"If the right people are elected, we will be able to continue with raises and benefits at or above our present levels," said the letter, as quoted at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "If others are elected, we will not."
The letter was written on McDonald's stationery and included a pamphlet promoting Ohio Republican candidates John Kasich (for governor), Rob Portman (for Senate) and Jim Renacci, who's running for a House seat.
Ohio Democratic Party chairman Chris Redfern has asked county and federal prosecutors to investigate the letter, AP reports."
Monday, October 25, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Obama's New Voice: LA Times' Nicholas and Parsons
Obama speaks in another voice than his former 2008 voice of unity and cohesiveness: His message of national unity and reconciliation had been replaced by a stark warning against cynical Republican tactics, vague threats to America's political system and the urgent need to keep the GOPmarginalized.~ LA Times' Nicholas and Parsons
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
From Salon.com: Top GOP calls Kagan "dangerous" nominee for SCOTUS
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling Elena Kagan "a dangerous, progressive, political" nominee for the Supreme Court.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is warning fellow senators to "be careful" about backing President Barack Obama's nominee, who's expected to be confirmed easily next week.
He says Americans won't forgive senators who vote to "impose a legal progressive activist legislator from the bench upon them."
Sessions' latest and strongest speech denouncing Kagan comes shortly after Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican to announce she'd break with her party to support Obama's nominee.
Friday, June 4, 2010
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) Outed from Closet After DADT Repeal Vote
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Former Washington, DC fundraiser and journalist form blogACTIVE.com Micheal Rogers knew Republican Illinois Senator Mark Kirk was a closeted gay, but only decided to "out" him when he found out Kirk was not one of the Senators voting for the repeal of DADT.
Times have changed. Now, for the first time in his congressional career, Mark Kirk really had the chance to stand up and do what is right with the power of a vote. When I heard that five GOPers voted to lift the Don't Ask Don't Tell ban I instinctively thought Kirk would be one of them. What a disappointment when he wasn't. The five were: Judy Biggert (R-IL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ron Paul (R-TX), Joseph Cao (R-LA), and Charles Djou, (R-HI).
Rogers says Kirk had good ratings with the Human Rights Campaign, and formerly, the DADT repeal was more or less a dead issue.
Thus the matter of his being a closeted gay man (Kirk was married and divorced; the marriage produced no children) was not deemed too important.
Now that he has angered gay activists like Rogers and others, the claws are coming out: Huffington Post is running a piece about Kirk's lies about military awards he has received.
AFTAH defends Kirk
Predictably, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) founder Peter LaBarbera , is more or less defending Kirk, and pointing to the evils of outing a gay man for not voting gay on all issues (true enough).
LaBarbera points out that his and Rogers' methods and rationale for outing closeted gay politicians are counter to eachother:
- Rogers will not out a closeted gay if he is doing all he can for gay advancement while in the closet
- Conversely, LaBarbera will not out a closeted gay unless he is using his political power to advance the gay agenda.
When — as in years preceding the Mark Foley scandal — talk of the VIP’s reported homosexuality becomes so widespread that it demands clarification, AFTAH and this writer ask politicians, potential judges and VIP media members the “Homosexual Question.” Deeply-held private biases affect public policy, so the voting public has a right to know those biases, especially when they are the target of hard-ball pressure politics. Of course, Michael Rogers — who queried this writer on the same question — comes at it from the opposite perspective.
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