Word: republicanizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SCOTT BROWN, Republican U.S. Senator-elect, after defeating Democratic candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts to win the seat long held by Ted Kennedy...
...there was ever a good time for President Obama to make one of his lauded grand-slam speeches, it was last week. Obama’s hallmark health-care reform suffered a disheartening blow with the January 19th election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate, thereby ruining the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority. Coupling the election with a lack of progress on many of the other issues that comprised a major part of Obama’s campaign, a chorus of pundits, politicians, and voters immediately declared Obama’s agenda dead or, at least, majorly stunted...
...Gray Davis, a Democrat, for governor. Now she paints signs and has a website, angryrightwinghousewife.com. Hoelscher, a mother of three, says, "Obama and the Democrats have not addressed the economy at all." She believes the stimulus bill was nothing but a "slush fund." But she is also offended by Republicans and says she will work for Republican challenger J.D. Hayworth against incumbent Senator John McCain, who she says has been unresponsive to the "illegal immigration [that] is destroying the job market." (See pictures of last year's Tea Party protests...
...Supreme Court over the 2000 presidential election - have managed to make mainstream the notion of gay marriage in a way that not even years of campaigning by gay-rights groups had been able to. That began to be clear almost immediately after the trial began early this month, as Republican stalwarts, from Cindy McCain to Herbert Hoover's granddaughter, began to speak out in favor of gay marriage. "This trial, and Ted's and David's profiles as nationally prominent, mainstream opinion leaders, have made the whole issue mainstream and much less partisan," says Jennifer Pizer, director of Lambda Legal...
...early rounds have already gone to gay-marriage supporters, no matter what the courts ultimately say. "Who remembers the outcome of the Scopes trial? Evolution lost the battle, though it has largely carried the day," Spindelman says, noting that Olson's stature as an elder within the Republican Party has made his involvement carry a message...