Negative Space: Republicans
- Copyright reform: Republican principles in action?
- Their initial copyright policy brief was a brilliant example of how Republicans could tie small government and freedom to actual, concrete policy changes that will help the average person—while at the same time cutting the rug from under their traditional anti-freedom enemies. It was far too smart to last.
- The cyclic transmogrification of the Republican Party
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From Lincoln on, Democrats have accused Republicans of their own failings: hate speech, violence, madness. And the more the left recycles the same serpent’s lies they used against President Lincoln, the more the left turns Trump into the new Lincoln.
- Dear Chairman Haley
- The Libertarians owe Robert Dole thanks for his and the Republican party’s generous (if backhanded) support.
- Defaulting on our debt is an executive choice
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If we default on any debt payments, it is because the White House has made the choice to default. There is no need to default even if the debt ceiling isn’t raised for a long time.
- Democrats “oppress” black voters… by killing them en masse
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Over more than a century, Democrats throughout the United States have sought to glorify the Confederacy, from the battle flag to erecting monuments to the political leaders of the Confederacy. They have killed to do it. Republicans should work to tear down those monuments to slavery.
- Essential revolution: fight corruption
- The only sure means of fighting corruption is to take away the powers that invite it.
- Essential Revolution: The Return of the Republicans
- The crime of the day is when you do it again.
- A fragile alliance
- The tea party and the Republican party alliance is a fragile one: it requires support on both sides. The media and tea partiers recognize this. Republican party leadership needs to figure it out yesterday.
- Health insurance reform? What health insurance reform?
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The Truth About Republicans: they don’t want to repeal Obamacare.
- Illinois Nazis and Lincoln’s Democrats
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An anecdote about other people’s money and other people’s time that I’ve had sitting around for a while.
- Institutional memory in political campaigns
- Every four years, some conservatives buckle under the press’s lies, and hope that groveling will make the press treat them nice. It never works.
- The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
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As the founding president of the Republican Party and the man who guided the United States through the incredible sacrifices of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, Abraham Lincoln deserves more than adulation. He deserves to be read.
- Nice park you have there; shame if anything happened to it.
- Who is the extortionist in the shutdown debate? Who is trying to cause actual harm right now in order to get protection money?
- No room for reason in Alaska
- Jesus Christ, what the hell are the Republicans doing up in Alaska?
- Nobody Isn’t Partisan
- Partisanship always trumps principle, but this year is worse than any I can recall. If Nobody were on the ballot, he’d have a good chance of winning. With the election as close as any in recent years, Nobody might still garner a majority.
- Nothing to fear but a brokered convention
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The reason someone smart would want a brokered convention is that it’s exciting, and it means media coverage, and even more, it means unfiltered media coverage.
- The Parable of the Primary
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If Republicans are looking to be more Obama than Obama, they couldn’t have found a better cronyist than Donald Trump.
- Republican establishment: spite and sour grapes
- Jerry Wilson tries to stop establishment Republicans from dancing over their own candidate’s defeat.
- Republican namecalling: single man creating laws smacks of “dictatorship”
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Extreme Republicans call U.S. President “dictator”, jealous that President’s actions to achieve goals bypass congressional obstruction and gridlock.
- Republican Party: show some initiative
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Even their online forms are more for show than results.
- Republicans and America must provide an alternative
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If America does not provide an alternative to the evils of progressivism gone awry in the world, it is lost.
- Republicans clamor for “Constitution”
- Democrats decry archaic, post-slavery document. Republicans threaten to cite obscure document in all new legislation.
- Take back the name
- I am proud to be a liberal. I hold as my political idols Jefferson, Paine, and other radical liberals from the founding of this country. It is time that real liberals took back the name from the conservatives!
- A tale of two speeches: Condi Rice and Paul Ryan
- Rice and Ryan. Now there’s a ticket.
- Two lessons for the price of one, for the Republican Party
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The Republican Party needs to stop trying to make it easy for the press to derail their primary process.
- Voter canvass on the proposed 2011 Republican Congressional majority agenda
- June 7: If I’m going to give money to generic Republicans, I want to see results. I don’t want to see “proposed” agendas. I want to see a successful checklist of things done.
- Voting for Nobody in New York
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The Republican Party and Doug Hoffman is providing social conservatives with the perfect opportunity to vote for Nobody in New York’s 23rd district.
- Who creates more jobs, Democrats or Republicans?
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More jobs are created under gridlock than under unified governments. However, this only applies if Republicans hold at least one of the House or Senate.
- You want your party back; so do Trump supporters
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You want your party back? So do Trump supporters. Whether Republican or Democrat, their party is either leaving them or has left them. They want their jobs, their religion, and they especially want their voice back. Trump promises to be that voice.
- Your candidate is unelectable and stupid
- Unelectable and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
More Information
- Paul Ryan RNC Speech 2012
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“Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan delivers the keynote address to the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL.”
- RSC policy brief: Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it (PDF)
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Republicans take on Hollywood in copyright reform: “Current copyright law does not merely distort some markets—rather it destroys entire markets.” (Derek S. Khanna)
- Why the Super Committee Failed
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“President Obama summed up our debt crisis best when he told Republican members of the House in January 2010 that ‘The major driver of our long-term liabilities… is Medicare and Medicaid and our health-care spending.’ A few months later, however, Mr. Obama and his party’s leaders in Congress added trillions of dollars in new health-care spending to the government’s balance sheet.
‘Democrats on the committee made it clear that the new spending called for in the president’s health law was off the table. Still, committee Republicans offered to negotiate a plan on the other two health-care entitlements—Medicare and Medicaid—based upon…”
