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Republican Party rushing headlong toward irrelevance (IrishCentral)

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:47:02 PST

GOP Presidential candidate Mitt RomneyIt seems that there is no crisis so deep, no consequence so dire, that the modern Republican Party won't rush headlong toward it in order to heroically prevent the rich people who bankroll them from spending a penny more on taxesCurrently, Republicans are determined to balance the nation’s budget It's an aim they share with one of the last presidents who did, Herbert HooverHoover's determination, as we know, further deepened the Great Depression READ MORE

Obama isn't Hitler or Stalin or the Anti-Christ (IrishCentral)

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:16:38 PST

In the Harry Potter alternative universe that is the acknowledged home of the floundering Tea Party, they have finally stopped comparing President Obama to the rogues gallery of lesser known tyrantsNow they're just flat out saying he's Hitler And Stalin And the Anti-Christ READ MORE

Immigration hopes and dreams crushed by Republican Party (IrishCentral)

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 06:46:35 PST

The fondest hopes of millions, still hidden in the nations shadows, have just met the Republican PartyMessage: your hopes and dreams are 'dead on arrival'Fresh from his still not-ready-for-prime-time performance after the State of the Union, the GOP's latest used car salesman Senator Marco Rubio has a message for the particularly hard working men and women who run America's service economy: go to the back of the bus - and be thankful if we don't send you packing back to whatever God forsaken nation you spring fromJust hours after President Obama's immigration reform plan was leaked to the press this week Rubio sent out a press release of his own:'It’s a mistake for the White House to draft immigration legislation without seeking input from Republican members of Congress,' the statement begins, before going on to call the bill 'half-baked and seriously flawed' and declaring that 'if actually proposed, the President’s bill would be dead on arrival in Congress READ MORE

Rush Limbaugh 'I’m the primary reason the Republican Party lost' - AUDIO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:05:44 PST

By: DARA KELLY

Radio host Rush Limbaugh claims that he is the reason that the Republican Party team of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan lost the election to Barack Obama.

Joe Biden: ‘This is not your father’s Republican Party’ - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:12:57 PDT

By: LAURA BRYN SISSON

Vice President of the United States Joe Biden and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden addressed students and community members at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH on Friday, highlighting the differences between the Democratic and Republican welfare platforms.

Republican Party economic policies similar to those which starved Irish says Famine book author (IrishCentral)

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:13:06 PDT

By: DARA KELLY

In a Daily Beast column, author John Kelly writes that Paul Ryan is "making the same economic mistakes that hurt his forefather in the Great Famine."

The Republican Party's presidential candidates are a sick joke (IrishCentral)

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:30:21 PST

Herman CainThe GOP 2012 campaign is a national tragedy masquerading as a trivial farceLike a lot of people, for a while there I was faintly amused by its theatrics until the never-ending series of political gaffes began to make me angryWeek after week we've had to endure these millionaire phony populists, whose bank balances dwarf the average American's, striving to outdo each other with their fake folksy charm These people are not folks, or at least not the folks that live on your streets, unless you’re reading this in a gated community in Aspen or some such place READ MORE

Could two African Americans, Barack Obama and Herman Cain, square off for president? (IrishCentral)

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:00:11 PDT

One of the most surprising twists in the Republican presidential race is the steep rise of Herman Cain in the pollsHe jumped 13 points last month while Rick Perry dropped twelve and is now the preferred candidate of 30 per cent of the tea party votersThat throws up the incredible possibility that it will be Cain versus Obama for the top job in America, an unimaginable scenario just a few years agoThe Cain mutiny has resulted in him being neck and neck with Romney for the Republican nomination READ MORE

What has happened to the Republican Party? (IrishCentral)

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:05:28 PDT

I admit it, there are some things about the modern Republican party (and its increasingly loony Tea Party wing) that still surprise meWhy for example do conservatives loudly claim to revere the Constitution, yet spend so much time discussing how they'd like to dismantle every aspect of the federal government that is the very expression of the principles embodied in that document?Another thing that surprises me: instead of targeting the predatory bankers who almost destroyed our economy, why do conservative politicians instead target government programs that actually help people like Medicaid and Social Security?Why do they fight tooth and nail to protect elite billionaires like the Koch brothers from paying a one tenth of one percent increase on their tax rates?After all US corporations have just had their most profitable quarters in American history - so where are all the jobs these 'wealth creators' were supposed to create? I'm serious, where's all this wealth these wealth creators have brought us?And why has religious fundamentalism taken over the Republican party as obviously as it now has? Perry and Bachman openly admit they do not believe in evolution (making creationism mainstream for the first time) but they do believe in angels and demons, they say They would have felt right at home in the 15 century These are two candidates who apparently don't care care what happens to the country or indeed the planet, since God's going to destroy it all anyway READ MORE

Dissident Republican protesters fail to ruin Queen's garden party (IrishCentral)

Thu, 19 May 2011 03:30:44 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

PHOTOS - The Queen's historic visit to Ireland - photo gallery