organization:republican party

NPR Tries to Track Down Those Millionaire Job Creators
►http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/12/09/npr-tries-to-track-down-those-millionaire-job-creators

In the debate over the payroll tax cut, Democrats want to pay for extending the tax break with a surtax on the wealthy. Republicans claim—usually without being challenged by reporters—that a surtax on millionaires would be an attack on job-creating small-business owners.

So NPR decided to go to GOP officials and ask to speak with these small-business-owning, millionaire job-creators. Turned out there was trouble finding any.

Herman Cain Admits to Quoting Pokemon Movie During Campaign (Video) - Hollywood Reporter

No, the GOP candidate didn’t admit to any of the accusations that he had sexually harrassed several women or had a 13-year affair with another.

Rather, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza admitted to having used quotes from the movie Pokemon: The Movie 2000 — specifically the theme song, “The Power of One,” sung by Donna Summer.

In August during the Republican primary debate in Iowa, Cain quoted “a poet” as having once said, “Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it’s never easy when there’s so much on the line.”

It wasn’t the only time he quoted from the movie, and several bloggers have been quick to point out his gaffe.

►http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/herman-cain-gop-presidential-candidate-pokemon-269471

Les téléspectateurs de Fox News moins bien informés que ceux qui ne s’informent pas
►http://www.ozap.com/actu/les-telespectateurs-de-fox-news-moins-bien-informes-que-ceux-qui-ne-s-informent-pas/437893

La très conservatrice chaîne d’information américaine Fox News est une nouvelle fois épinglée. L’université Fairleigh Dickinson du New Jersey vient en effet de démontrer que ses téléspectateurs sont moins bien informés... que ceux qui ne s’informent pas du tout…

CNN hands over Republican foreign policy debate to neocon cabal | Al Akhbar English
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/gadfly/cnn-hands-over-republican-foreign-policy-debate-neocon-cabal

When Republican primary candidates debate foreign policy issues tonight, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer (a former researcher for AIPAC) will mouth questions provided to him by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). While the Heritage Foundation is well known as the outsourced brain of Republicans in Congress and serves as a hothouse for right-wing GOP domestic policies, AEI’s participation in the debate is even more problematic.

The Washington Post pointed out that some of the candidates have close relationships with the think tanks, noting Newt Gingrich’s 12-year-long fellowship at AEI and Mitt Romney’s employment of several former Heritage fellows. “Can the two think tanks divorce themselves from the candidates they are tied to in order to produce an impartial debate?” the Post asked.

But this is the wrong question, or at least not the most salient one. The problem with CNN allowing Heritage and AEI to dictate the questions and content of the GOP debate is that it provides the neocon cabal with a national platform to sell Americans on the need for war with Iran and for continued subsidization of Israel’s colonization of the West Bank. AEI is the nerve center for the neocon cabal; it is where the now-discredited case for invading Iraq was developed.

On apprend un nouveau mot : « dominionisme ». Et on joue à se faire peur très fort.

Dominionism : Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry’s Dangerous Religious Bond - The Daily Beast
►http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/14/dominionism-michele-bachmann-and-rick-perry-s-dangerous-religious-bon

With Tim Pawlenty out of the presidential race, it is now fairly clear that the GOP candidate will either be Mitt Romney or someone who makes George W. Bush look like Tom Paine. Of the three most plausible candidates for the Republican nomination, two are deeply associated with a theocratic strain of Christian fundamentalism known as Dominionism. If you want to understand Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, understanding Dominionism isn’t optional. 

Put simply, Dominionism means that Christians have a God-given right to rule all earthly institutions. Originating among some of America’s most radical theocrats, it’s long had an influence on religious-right education and political organizing.

[...]

We have not seen this sort of thing at the highest levels of the Republican Party before. Those of us who wrote about the Christian fundamentalist influence on the Bush administration were alarmed that one of his advisers, Marvin Olasky, was associated with Christian Reconstructionism. It seemed unthinkable, at the time, that an American president was taking advice from even a single person whose ideas were so inimical to democracy. Few of us imagined that someone who actually championed such ideas would have a shot at the White House. It turns out we weren’t paranoid enough. If Bush eroded the separation of church and state, the GOP is now poised to nominate someone who will mount an all-out assault on it. We need to take their beliefs seriously, because they certainly do.

House GOP leaders delay vote on debt plan - The Washington Post
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/boehner-other-gop-leaders-ramp-up-pressure-on-republicans-to-pass-debt-plan/2011/07/28/gIQARD5veI_story.html

Two lawmakers — Reps. Jeff Duncan and Mick Mulvaney — left the office and went into a nearby chapel, telling reporters they were praying over the matter and for their leadership.

Rep. Tim Scott (S.C.), a liaison to leadership for the freshmen class, said he was still opposed to the legislation. He added that leaders have told him they are on the brink of securing the 217 votes needed, but still just short.

“I hear three votes, four votes, it’s very close. They’re only a handful away,” he said.

Scott then joined Duncan and Mulvaney in the chapel. About 45 minutes later, they emerged and headed downstairs to the first-floor offices of House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), where Boehner,Cantor and McCarthy were waiting.

Pendant 45 minutes, donc : « Seigneur, Éloigne de moi la tentation d’augmenter du plafond de la dette ».

NH GOP Politician to Unions: ’Better Not F#%k with Me’ Or I’ll Shoot | Mother Jones
►http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/07/lynne-blankenbeker-union-shoot-new-hampshire

Lynne Ferrari Blankenbeker, a Republican lawmaker in the New Hampshire legislature, has taken union-bashing to a whole new level.

In a July 21 email obtained by Mother Jones, the New Hampshire state Rep. wrote to fellow legislators about a recent training stint with the Army at Fort Dix, in New Jersey. A military veteran who has served in the Middle East, Blankenbeker described learning to drive an Army Humvee wearing night vision goggles. She also trained as a gunner, and had to this to say:

Today I got to be the gunner which was fun. The .50 cal is quite a gun! I was never ascared of the unions but they better not F#%k with me again!!! Just saying.

La dame a une page Facebook qui nous apprend:
►http://www.facebook.com/people/Lynne-Ferrari-Blankenbeker/1282385506
– Activités: «God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them.»
– Livres: «I Don’t Really Like to Read»

Les Républicains américains sont partisans de l’obésité semble-t-il : ►http://washington.blogs.liberation.fr/great_america/2011/02/les-hamburgers-de-michelle-obama.html #hamburger #usa #GOP #Obama

Le grotesque n’est jamais (jamais) un obstacle.

What Caused the Financial Crisis? | Mother Jones
►http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/12/what-caused-financial-crisis

HuffPo’s Shahien Nasiripour has a great story today on the turmoil that’s engulfing the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (#FCIC), the bipartisan panel charged with investigating the causes of the financial crisis. Nasiripour reports that the GOP members of the commission are planning to issue their own report blaming the government for causing the collapse. But that’s not the scariest part. This is:

During a private commission meeting last week, all four Republicans voted in favor of banning the phrases “Wall Street” and “shadow banking” and the words “interconnection” and “deregulation” from the panel’s final report, according to a person familiar with the matter and confirmed by Brooksley E. Born, one of the six commissioners who voted against the proposal.