Posts Tagged GOP
Looking Backward
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on May 14th, 2012
In 1980, I won the Republican primary for what was then Indiana’s Eleventh Congressional District, defeating three opponents. I was pro-choice and on record supporting equal rights for gays and lesbians (same-sex marriage was not yet an issue), positions that were consistent with the generally libertarian Republicanism of the day. Indeed, my loss to Andy [...]
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Doubling Down
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 7th, 2012
The Chair of the National Republican Party pooh-poohs the notion that his party is waging a war on women–next, he says, the Democrats will accuse the GOP of a war on caterpillars. How silly, how over-the-top! Just another one of those politically-motivated charges that are thrown around during a campaign season. At virtually the same [...]
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Fifty-One Percent
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on March 31st, 2012
In a recent New York Times column, Gail Collins observed “the thing that makes our current politics particularly awful isn’t procedural. It’s that the Republican Party has become over-the-top extreme.” She left out “mean-spirited and patriarchal.” I was an active Republican for 35 years, but the party I belonged to no longer exists. There is [...]
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Speaking of Gushers….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on March 30th, 2012
American taxpayers subsidize the giant oil companies to the tune of 4 billion dollars a year. The American tax code contains a variety of provisions that make oil production one of the most heavily subsidized businesses in the country, with tax breaks available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process. According to [...]
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Essential Reading
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on February 28th, 2012
This morning’s column by David Brooks is a dead-on accurate description of what has happened to the GOP. I was going to excerpt a paragraph, but I couldn’t decide which one, because Brooks goes from pointed observation to perfect analogy and back. (He notes that the primaries haven’t been about policy differences; rather, they’ve been [...]
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