#republican

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life. ↗

— Randi Weingarten

#adult life #been #days #democrat #his

Today's Republican Party...is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition, all but declaring war on the government. The Democratic Party, while no paragon of civic virtue, is more ideologically centered and diverse, protective of the government's role as it developed over the course of the last century, open to incremental changes in policy fashioned through bargaining with the Republicans, and less disposed to or adept at take-no-prisoners conflict between the parties. This asymmetry between the parties, which journalists and scholars often brush aside or whitewash in a quest for "balance," constitutes a huge obstacle to effective governance. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#democrats #politics #republicans #usa #change

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous. ↗

— Raul Labrador

#borders #claims #close #else #ever

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#like #raid #republicans

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#among #away #campaign #chip #confident

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#after #build #campaigned #candidate #colin

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#both #case #conflict #dollar #man

You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#before #censure #censured #democratic #election

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#charge #gave #greatest #impression #leaders

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#colleagues #continue #federal #federal government #forgot