Results for Democrat Party

  1. ObamaCare's "branding" problem https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2013/11/20/obamacares-branding-problem-n47327
    Obama’s growing reputation for dishonesty and irresponsibility is also doing damage to the Democrat brand.   … “This either gets fixed, or this could be the demise of the Democratic Party.”   … The really bad news for that Democrat aide is that there is no way to “fix” ObamaCare.  …
  2. New Obamacare Defense: Blame Everyone But Yourself https://redstate.com/streiff/2013/11/20/new-obamacare-defense-blame-everyone-but-yourself-n47322
    Obamacare is just another Democrat foray into Cargo Cult Economics (here | here | here | here | here) that requires a willing suspension … It is hard to find an example of an opposition party working 24-7 to make the other party’s agenda succeed.  … Apparently Obama thinks this is worse than when his own party advocated killing American troops in Iraq , part of the “slow bleed”…
  3. Jessica Sanford, one of @BarackObama's #obamacare 'success stories,' will have no insurance. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/11/18/jay-inslee-obamacare-exchanges-washington-jessica-sanford-n47306
    Sanford is a Democrat who is still publicly supportive of both President Barack Obama and his misbegotten travesty of a health care … and all the smug little proclamations and excuses by President Barack Obama and Governor Jay Inslee and the rest of the Democratic party…
  4. Democrats: If The GOP Wants To Win Elections They'll Ignore Obamacare https://redstate.com/streiff/2013/11/18/democrats-if-the-gop-wants-to-win-elections-theyll-ignore-obamacare-n47302
    Independent handicappers are predicting doom and gloom at the ballot box for the party next November. … But the GOP would be making a big mistake if it assumed that the problems with Obamacare were a panacea for all that ails the party … The Democrat candidate will either have to defend what Obama has done or run from it. Neither will be very helpful.…
  5. How Terry McAuliffe failed to impose Medicaid expansion on Virginia. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/11/24/terry-mcauliffe-virginia-medicaid-2-n51223
    Nah, his team of trained legislation-breakers found a suitable loophole, in classic Democratic party fashion* – and snuck it into the … Alas, Democrat state Senator Phillip Puckett was made a deal (which apparently had nothing to do with any of this) that flipped the … state Senate (despite the frantic deal-making efforts of every Virginia Democrat from McAuliffe on down); that, coupled with conservative…
  6. Seriously, the DNC needs to fire its social media squad over this 'ethnic cleansing' own-goals. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/11/21/dnc-ethnic-cleansing-social-media-n51205
    given the Democratic party nothing better to work with this cycle). … Well, those social media geniuses over at Team Democrat managed to double down on stupid.   … It was a minor statewide official from your party who said that!…
  7. Obama's Justice Department declares war on school choice https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/11/21/obamas-justice-department-declares-war-school-choice-n51202
    gelded the Wisconsin teacher’s mafia and limited its ability to extort dues from members that become the mother’s milk of the Democrat … the choice schools back into government schools would swell the ranks of unionized teachers, whose union dues fund the Democratic Party…
  8. Jim Webb throws his hat in the 2016 ring https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/11/20/jim-webb-throws-hat-2016-ring-n51190
    Virginia Democrat and former senator Jim Webb has created an exploratory committee as the first stage in a 2016 presidential run … In the video, he described the Democratic Party as a group that used to be defined by a “vital, overriding belief that we’re all in…
  9. The government needs to start respecting us https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2014/11/18/government-needs-start-respecting-us-n51170
    L000550′ ]’s runoff, in which Republicans are charged with showing Barack Obama “so much disrespect,” and sees a bigger lame-duck Democrat … Not long ago, Democrats were comparing the Tea Party to traitors and terrorists, even though they were merely trying to use the lawful…
  10. Big government is winning campaign issue for Democrats https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/12/05/big-government-winning-campaign-issue-democrats-n51338
    In Plaquemine, a town down the road from Baton Rouge, I take a party-switching state senator’s lunch recommendation and head into a … Voters were not listening to Landrieu or any Democrat when they talked about the assets they could bring to the state. … Being the party of making the Big Government trains run on time is a loser.…
  11. Rape, Rudeness, and Deciding the News https://redstate.com/erick/2014/12/05/rape-rudeness-and-deciding-the-news-n51336
    Terry Bean is a donor to the Democratic Party. He has hung out with Barack Obama on Air Force Once. … But until then, through 2009 until earlier this year, Gruber was heralded as a Democrat hero.…
  12. Democrats use 40 Attorneys to attempt to Manipulate NM Land Commissioner Race https://redstate.com/goppolitx/2014/12/04/democrats-use-40-attorneys-attempt-manipulate-nm-land-commissioner-race-n51325
    According to Dunn, Powell is receiving the aid of 40 Democratic Party [national?] … funded attorneys, so now the recount procedure decision is taken to the Democrat-controlled Supreme Court where Powell has also out-lawyered … Tuesday Dunn voiced his concern about the all-Democrat New Mexico Supreme Court hearing arguments presented by attorneys from the Dunn…
  13. Obama sets record as losingest loser President in loser history https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/12/02/obama-sets-record-losingest-loser-president-loser-history-n51293
    Larry Sabato has an interesting article in Politico asking the intriguing question why any political party would want to have the … presidency for two terms given the damage that does to the party in Congress and in the States: The historical record is clear: … A party surges when it elects a president, but goes into a roller-coaster decline shortly thereafter.…
  14. Turns out Harry Reid was dumping money into Greg Orman's race after all. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/12/01/harry-reid-greg-orman-kansas-n51287
    his Senate race, and alternate-me would have already started counting down to the date where Orman would reveal that he was a Democrat … Beltway belief, pollsters are not put on this earth to do agitprop for the Democratic party.   … Or, sure, the Republican party, either.…
  15. Hastert Rule is unfair to Democrats... or something https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/12/01/hastert-rule-unfair-democrats-something-n51282
    states that the only legislation that will see the light of day in the House is that which is supported by a majority of the majority party … Speaker is elected by the majority and it is profoundly unwise for a Speaker to torque a majority of his own caucus and rely upon Democrat … More importantly, the Republican party should, in an ideal world, stand for something and if a particular bill doesn’t have the support…
  16. The last stand of the old line civil rights establishment: Ferguson as Selma https://redstate.com/gawken/2014/12/01/last-stand-old-line-civil-rights-establishment-ferguson-selma-n51285
    Simply put, it was the last, blindly stupid attempt by the old-line racist ( and nearly 100% Democrat south) to continue to suppress … In late 2004, during a post election symposium, OK blue-dog Democrat Congressman Brad Carson, who was very popular in his district … He went on to say that the Democrat party would never evolve into a truly national party until the “last Vietnam era” activist died…
  17. Immigration executive order may kill tax break extension https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/12/01/immigration-executive-order-may-kill-tax-break-extension-n51280
    Are they so heartless a party that they would overtly and openly line the pockets of billion dollar corporations while ignoring 97% … Did the party view its victory in the recent midterm elections as a referendum on its policies, freeing it to act with impunity? … In fact, throughout the negotiations, the Republican party was content to further extend or even make permanent the temporary aspects…
  18. Deval Patrick: Democrats in 2014 needed more cowbell https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/11/30/deval-patrick-democrats-2014-needed-cowbell-n51274
    Yesterday, I wrote a short piece based on an interview given by the head of the Mississippi Democrat party and his conception of what…
  19. The Democrats' surprisingly complicated 2016 Senate problem. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/11/30/senate-2016-election-democrats-n51272
    that Senators who are planning to run for Governor do: to wit, talking about how much he hates Washington DC, and letting the state party … Even the candidates who are reasonably certain that they can retire and have a Democrat replace them are still going to end up costing … the Democratic party precious election funding (it costs more to fill an open seat than it does to cruise to reelection); and if Manchin…
  20. Why Southern Democrats can't win https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/11/30/southern-democrats-cant-win-n51270
    Nothing would make me happier that the Democrat party simply going away because the Democrats and what passes for “values” in the Democrat … The Democrat party is in-your-face counter-cultural in the South. … The Democrat party is that it has become the party of government largesse.…
  21. Joan Walsh's refusal to understand why Democrats lost https://redstate.com/joesquire/2014/11/28/joan-walshs-refusal-understand-democrats-lost-n51264
    Ebola worries, played a major role in a midterm election that was already destined to lean Republican based on historic trends (party … in power loses support in the sixth year, Democrat voters are not as motivated in midterms, etc.).…
  22. Hillary Clinton: Rock Star https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/11/28/hillary-clinton-rock-star-n51260
    she is approaching the 2016 nomination as a coronation (much the same strategy she pursued in 2008) there are forces within the Democrat … party which aren’t all that happy.…
  23. The Cruz-Lee point of order and why the GOP establishment thinks you are an idiot https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/12/16/cruz-lee-point-order-gop-establishment-thinks-idiot-n51433
    All were confirmed on a party line vote. Reid pushed through the controversial nominees earlier in the session. The fix was in. … Any assertion that the GOP intended to play rope-a-dope and wear down the resolve of the cadre of involuntarily retired Democrat senators … You are an idiot If you believe the crap being tossed about by the GOP leadership, the Democrat leadership, and their willing tools…
  24. Think Three Unelected Bureaucrats Should Raise Taxes Whenever They Want? https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2014/12/15/think-three-unelected-bureaucrats-raise-internet-taxes-whenever-want-n51423
    Three are of the President’s Party – two of the opposition Party. … So right now it’s 3-2 Democrat – and Democrat Chairman Wheeler is more and more pressing his partisan advantage. … Three unelected Democrat FCC Commissioners did. By an additional 17.2%.…
  25. Obama shows no leadership on fight with ISIS https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/12/12/obama-shows-leadership-fight-isis-n51410
    Committee Chairman, New Jersey Democrat [mc_name name=’Sen. … from researching the ins-and-outs of prostitution in the Dominican Republic to put together a resolution that passed on a strict party…