Head of Republican Party explains how (not to) do Latino outreach
"Maybe the guy behind me will talk about immigration ..." Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, has a column in Wednesday's National Review that tells fellow-Republicans:If...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 10/12/2013
This week had an amazing teachable moment - amazing because it led to some actual teaching.At Georgia Tech, a frat brother's email on "Luring your Rapebait" went viral. It was about as bad as it...
View ArticleTwitter mockery forces Republicans to clarify that Rosa Parks didn't actually...
Sunday was Rosa Parks Day, and the Republican National Committee honored the civil rights hero in the best way they knew how:Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism....
View ArticleRNC gets out of ad biz, wants to focus on data
RNC is ceding airwaves to their billionaire friends, like the Koch brothers.Hmm...The Republican National Committee is largely getting out of the advertising business and instead will defer to super...
View ArticleRepublicans want to dial back the 'war on women' talk ... by focusing on...
If Republicans want to make Todd Akin their poster boy on abortion, they should go right ahead. Here's something to watch for at the Republican National Committee meetings: A group of RNC members is...
View ArticleHey, Reince, that's not how presidential elections work
Reince Priebus The Republican National Committee is pushing a brand-new spin on democracy completely pathetic effort at online organizing. The new Republican hotness? A petition to "Keep the Clintons...
View ArticleRepublican Senate Task Force Survey Questionaire
It was in my mailbox when I got home from work tonight. For reasons entirely opaque to me, the GOP has asked me to represent my district on its task force and to complete my questionnaire so that I can...
View ArticleLeaving Las Vegas? Republicans Probably Won't Even Come Here (Come 2016)!
(Also at Nevada Progressive)Every so often, a certain local journalist and media pundit (someone by the name of Jon Ralston) has been begging national Republicans to bring the 2016 Republican National...
View ArticleGOP files paperwork to become wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries
Republicans want to get their hands on all that Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson cash:The Republican National Committee on Friday sued the Federal Election Commission in an effort to raise unlimited...
View ArticleRepublicans think veterans deserve accountability, just not from Republicans
RNC Chair Reince Priebus The Republican National Committee is doing its damnedest to turn problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs into a partisan attack on President Obama, despite Senate...
View ArticleWhy is Rep. Mike Rogers Really Pissed Off Over Bergdahl Release?
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) was a guest (again) on ABC’s "This Week" to discuss the prisoner exchange that allowed the United States to finally bring Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- the last American prisoner of war...
View ArticleHave a barf-bag handy while looking at this picture
Did you ever think this day would come? Well, apparently it has. The great George W. Bush Restoration Project has seemingly begun in earnest.After years of hiding him away in the attic, the RNC must...
View ArticleEmbrace the Suck: Midterm Edition
Following the fiasco of the Romney/Ryan ticket in the 2012 presidential race, the Republican National Committee decided that the time had come for the GOP to face some hard truths and make some...
View ArticleRepublicans trying to relive the 1990s with plans to smear the Clintons
When Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus said Bill Clinton would be "fair game" if Hillary Clinton runs for president, he was serious. In fact, Priebus is already getting his smear...
View ArticleAmerican Family Association fires Bryan Fischer
Rachel Maddow just reported breaking news that the American Family Association has fired its most viciously anti-everything-not-evangelical mouthpiece, Bryan Fischer. Fischer has for years promoted as...
View ArticleThe RNC/AFA Israel Freebie: US Hate Group Getting Desperate But Can't Quite...
As we have been seeing the American Family Association partially "fired" Bryan Fischer and then tried to refute his hate with modified hate:Sandy Rios, the American Family Association’s director of...
View ArticleAnti-Gay, Anti-Mormon Hate Group Sponsors Reince Priebus' RNC Israel Trip
If the National Republican Party had embraced the Ku Klux Klan or the American Nazi Party, would mainstream media pick up the story ? Probably.The American Family Association, sponsor of the Republican...
View ArticleThe official Republican response to today's jobs report
Faced with a positively rosy jobs report on Friday morning—and with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell apparently unavailable to take credit for it—it fell to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to...
View ArticleRepublicans shift anti-Hillary tactics from squirrel suit to 'hiding'
Maybe they lost the squirrel suit and that's why they had to change message? Hillary Clinton has not said that she is running for president. Going along with that, she's not campaigning for president....
View ArticleClueless Republicans gloat over Reid retirement
Way to stay classy, Republican National Committee:The RNC today released the following statement in response to Democrat Leader Harry Reid announcing his retirement: "With the Democrat Party already...
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