- Democrats are the party of entitlements, but an overlooked irony in the fiscal cliff stand-off is that it’s the Republican-designed Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit that threatens to explode entitlement costs, by as much as $1 trillion in 10 years. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/07/fiscal-cliff-day-31-a-gop-entitlement-s-huge-price-tag.html 3 comments politics
- Meet the lone Republican election official standing up to his party and Trump https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/georgia-recount-election-trump-brad-raffensperger-b1727640.html 3 comments politics
- 'Integrity matters': Meet the lone Republican election official standing up to his party and Trump https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/georgia-recount-election-trump-brad-raffensperger-b1727640.html 266 comments politics
- The Republican Party announces that it stands for nothing https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-no-party-platform-rnc/2020/08/24/a56c057c-e61c-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-c-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans 10 comments politics
- Wake up, Republicans. Your party stands for all the wrong things now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wake-up-republicans-your-party-stands-for-all-the-wrong-things-now/2019/12/31/c8347b32-2be8-11ea-9b60-817cc18cf173_story.html?utm_campaign=post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 2371 comments politics
- Evan McMullin fires back: 'What does the Republican Party stand for anymore?' http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-evan-mcmullin-fires-back-against-gop-1477660106-htmlstory.html 553 comments politics
- Hispanic Leaders Tell Republican Party To Stand Up To Donald Trump http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/03/donald-trump-hispanic-leaders_n_7719582.html 21 comments politics
- The Republican Party's Civil War: A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/10/07/the-republican-partys-civil-war-a-house-divided-against-itself-cannot-stand/ 3 comments politics
- Best explanation yet of "what does the modern Republican party stand for?" http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=8799 11 comments politics
- Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame | The representative from Wyoming is taking a stand against an authoritarian streak in the Republican Party that she helped cultivate. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/liz-cheney-trump-fraud/618820/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+theatlantic+%28the+atlantic+-+master+feed%29 42 comments politics
- The GOP is still too cowardly to stand up to Donald Trump - These developments should shake our complacency about the United States as a free country. Even if Trump loses, historians will ask how he got this far. And one answer will be the moral cowardice of the Republican Party. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/the_gop_is_still_too_cowardly_to_stand_up_to_donald_trump.html 20 comments politics
- The Republican Party GOP’s Obsession With Guns Stands To Drive Women Vote In The 2014 Election: Poll http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/women-guns-2014-poll.php 11 comments politics
- Mitt Romney's Republican Party Stands for Nothing | AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1036381/mitt_romney's_republican_party_stands_for_nothing/ 5 comments politics
- Ralph Nader calls out the Democratic party for failing to stand up to extremist Republicans http://nader.org/2012/07/05/jolting-the-democratic-party-from-its-stupor/ 184 comments politics
- Are there no more Margaret Chase Smiths to stand up against the extremists in today's Republican Party? http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6459/ 3 comments politics
- O'Donnell is accusing the Republican Party of standing on the sidelines in Delaware. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/17/ar2010101701256.html 3 comments politics
- At last the Republican Party comes clean: It stands for terrorism and Trump, against democracy |GOP censure of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger got little attention — but it's a pivot point in American history https://www.salon.com/2022/02/07/at-last-the-party-comes-clean-it-stands-for-terrorism-and/ 46 comments politics
- Republicans Believe Lying Will Make It So—And They May Be Right | But a party morally corrupted by Donald Trump and its own rotten behavior must not stand. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/21/republicans-believe-lying-will-make-it-so-and-they-may-be-right 123 comments politics
- Trump’s Republican wall eroding ahead of impeachment vote - Trump’s weakened standing among his own party will come into sharper focus during impeachment proceedings https://www.denverpost.com/2021/01/13/trump-republican-allies-impeachment-vote/ 9 comments politics
- 5 Reasons why the American people can't stand the Republican party http://www.examiner.com/article/5-reasons-why-the-american-people-can-t-stand-the-republican-party?cid=db_articles 5 comments politics
- The Republican Establishment Stands Behind Trump: Of 146 state party chairs and national committee members asked about President Trump's response to Charlottesville, only seven were critical https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/gop-responding-to-trumps-response/537696/ 276 comments politics
- "Do not worry about Donald Trump becoming president. Worry, instead, about what his current — emphasis on current — stratospheric standing in the polls says about two things: the Republican Party and the other GOP candidates." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-the-un-reagan/2015/07/21/88f0cd52-2fc3-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html 581 comments politics
- Republicans and the Tea Party get tested TODAY - increase defense spending, or stand with their precious "Pledge"... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_us/us_congress_spending 8 comments politics
- Hillary Clinton blames Trump for ‘giving aid and comfort’ to Putin before Ukraine invasion|Former secretary of state calls on ‘what’s left of the Republican party’ to stand up against those who are showing support for ‘enemy of freedom and democracy’ Putin https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-putin-russia-ukraine-b2023371.html 1077 comments politics
- GOP Strategist Reveals The Only Thing Republicans Now Stand For | “Republicans are now officially the character doesn’t count party,” wrote Stuart Stevens in a scathing op-ed for The Washington Post. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e0d9b21c5b6b5a713b5b556 6 comments politics
- The Republican Party stands alone in climate denial | The answer may lie in a combination of fossil fuel industry influence, and increasing, record levels of political polarization. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/oct/05/the-republican-party-stands-alone-in-climate-denial 42 comments politics
- Optimistic or Delusional? Why Gay Republicans Stand By Their Party’s Bigoted Platform: At a 20th anniversary reception for the Log Cabin Republicans, the GOP's gay optimists say equality is just around the corner. http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/optimistic-or-delusional-why-gay-republicans-stand-their-partys-bigoted-platform?paging=off 4 comments politics
- Government shutdown threatened by Republicans over Planned Parenthood. Conservatives, is this really what you want your party to stand for? Really? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/government-shutdown-planned-parenthood_n_846463.html 29 comments politics
- Bill Maher: "The Democrats are what the Republicans used to be — a corporatist party that represents big business and doesn’t stand up for progressive issues. And then we need a whole new party that is what the Democratic Party used to be.” http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/25/maher-democrats-republicans/ 46 comments politics
- Led by Sanders, Senate Dems Weigh $6 Trillion Infrastructure Bill as Bipartisan Talks Fail on Climate | "The Republican Party has made clear that they are not prepared to stand up for the American people and address the many crises facing working families today. We can get to work without them." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/17/led-sanders-senate-dems-weigh-6-trillion-infrastructure-bill-bipartisan-talks-fail 10 comments politics
- The Platform the GOP Is Too Scared to Publish — what the Republican Party actually stands for, in 13 points https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/new-gop-platform-authoritarianism/615640/ 57 comments politics
- President Ronald Reagan’s Budget Director Says Republican Party is a Coalition of Gangs That Stands for Nothing - David Stockman excoriates the Republican Party in interview http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/28/reagans-budget-director-says-republican-party-is-a-coalition-of-gangs-that-stands-for-nothing-video/ 14 comments politics
- If Republicans are serious about repairing their party’s standing among women, a good place to start would be for Republicans in the House to stop blocking reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/opinion/sunday/the-gop-and-violence-against-women.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&seid=auto&_r=1& 189 comments politics
- Jeff Flake To GOP: Save Your Souls And Stand Against Trump | The Republican former senator urges members of his party to oppose the president's reelection if he's not impeached. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-flake-republicans-souls-trump-reelection_n_5d922ca7e4b0e9e76050c82f 40 comments politics
- What the Republican Party stands for: opposition to American workers, giving trillions to richest Americans, opposing environmental protections, hatred of science and public schools http://jamillerrampant.blogspot.com/2008/12/cancer-of-conservatism.html 27 comments politics
- The self-identifying conservative Republicans who make up the base of the Republican party stand a world apart from the rest of America http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/politics/2009/12/04/conservative-base-could-harm-gop-in-2010.html 5 comments politics
- Boehner can't rally House Republicans behind his own plans, let alone any deal he might cut with Obama. Moderate Republicans are running scared, afraid they'll be "primaried" if they don't toe the Tea Party line. When are moderate Republicans going to have the balls to stand up to these crazies? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/us/politics/even-after-victory-president-remains-constrained-by-gop.html?smid=re-share 24 comments politics
- Republicans distanced themselves from Akin's remarks then drew up policy confirming their harsh anti-abortion stance, "Romney & his colleague, can stand up to party lines or be outed publicly as liars, stepping back from their earlier statements that abortion is acceptable if a woman is raped." http://freakoutnation.com/2012/08/21/at-the-same-time-republicans-distance-themselves-from-akins-remarks-they-draw-up-policy-confirming-their-harsh-anti-abortion-stance/ 3 comments politics
- Tea Party Governor Calls For GOP To Compromise On Taxes To Avert Sequester Cuts - n CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday morning, Tea Party favorite Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) said Republicans should compromise on tax increases rather than let the budget cuts stand. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/24/1631701/tea-party-governor-calls-for-gop-to-compromise-on-taxes-to-avert-sequester-cuts/?mobile=nc 14 comments politics
- Why Can't House GOP Leaders Stand Up to Radical Members of Their Party? -- No Republican on the Homeland Security Subcommittee was willing to speak against Steve King's "poison-pill" amendment. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/why-cant-house-gop-leaders-stand-up-to-radical-members-of-their-party/276881/ 7 comments politics