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  • Ramaswamy increasingly embraces fringe theories, far-right claims in Iowa

    01/05/2024 1:46:06 PM PST · by libh8er · 53 replies
    MSN / WaPo ^ | 1.5.2024 | Meryl Kornfield
    BETTENDORF, Iowa — At a campaign event this week, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy touted an endorsement by a disgraced former congressman who lost his election after defending white nationalism. He refused to directly condemn white supremacy. And he said he didn’t recognize the name of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine people at a historically Black church in South Carolina. “Was there a point in our prior national history where there have been vicious forms of anti-Black or anti-Brown discrimination in this country, after the Civil War and otherwise? Yes. But you’re looking in the rearview mirror,”...
  • FRANK LUNTZ: "...And now people are going to die."

    07/16/2021 3:50:10 AM PDT · by RandFan · 57 replies
    Wasington Post via Twitter ^ | July 16 | Dan Diamond
    @ddiamond “We always ask, what will be the last straw? What will be the moment that we lose the ability to communicate and cooperate?” longtime GOP pollster @FrankLuntz told The Post. “Well, we’ve reached it. This is it … And now people are going to die.”
  • Washington Post editor says Texas Rangers name 'must go,' gets slammed by critics

    07/13/2020 10:56:03 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 78 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 13 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    Washington Post Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah argued on Monday that the Texas Rangers as a team name "must go." On the heels of the Washington Redskins retiring its name and mascot amid pressure from critics and corporate sponsors, an op-ed written by Attiah made the case that "to know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen." Growing up in Dallas, Attiah recalled going to Rangers games with her father as a child, but not realizing at the time that the Rangers...
  • Explosive new revelations just weakened Trump’s impeachment defenses

    12/30/2019 3:08:59 PM PST · by Maceman · 104 replies
    . . . That possibility is underscored by the Times report, a chronology of Trump’s decision to withhold aid to a vulnerable ally under assault while he and his henchmen extorted Ukraine into carrying out his corrupt designs. The report demonstrates in striking detail that inside the administration, the consternation over the legality and propriety of the aid freeze — and confusion over Trump’s true motives — ran much deeper than previously known, implicating top Cabinet officials more deeply than we thought. Among the story’s key points: As early as June, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney worked...
  • Trump administration demanded Democrats strip Ukraine aid language from spending package

    12/21/2019 12:01:54 AM PST · by NorseViking · 35 replies
    WaPo ^ | December 21, 2019 | Erika Werner
    The language would have required the White House to release Ukraine defense aid quickly. Senior Trump administration officials in recent days threatened a presidential veto that could have led to a government shutdown if House Democrats refused to drop language requiring prompt release of future military aid for Ukraine, according to five administration and congressional officials. The language was ultimately left out of mammoth year-end spending legislation that passed the House and Senate this week ahead of a Saturday shutdown deadline. The White House said President Trump signed the $1.4 trillion package Friday night. The Ukraine provision was one of...
  • This July 4, governing in the spirit of revenge

    07/04/2014 7:43:51 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 38 replies
    Washington Post ^ | July 4, 2014 | by Eugene Robinson
    As we celebrate the Fourth of July, who can argue that our democracy is working the way the Founders intended? And who can deny that most of the blame for dysfunction must fall to the Republican Party? George Washington distrusted all political parties. He warned in his farewell address that, as they alternated power, parties would act in “the spirit of revenge” — rather than, presumably, in the best interests of the nation. The “disorders and miseries” that resulted, Washington feared, would inevitably threaten democracy. Whatever the motivation, Republicans have paralyzed our government in a way that would have shocked...
  • The Republicans Guilt-by-Association Gamble

    12/16/2008 11:51:42 AM PST · by lewisglad · 54 replies · 1,211+ views
    Washington Post ^ | December 15, 2008; 11:45 AM ET | Chris Cillizza
    Republicans moved aggressively over the weekend to link scandal-tarred Gov. Rod Blagojevich to President-elect Barack Obama -- a guilt-by-association tactic that represents a significant gamble for a party still looking to pick itself up off the electoral mat. The Republican National Committee released a web video (read: electronic press release) over the weekend that dug up a series of pro-Blagojevich quotes from Obama -- dating back to 2002. That video followed hard on a series of statements from the RNC over the last week that sought to raise questions about the nature and depth of Obama's ties to Blagojevich and...