Tag: Republican Party

Make Pro-Abortion Extremists Play Defense

Marjorie Dannenfelser · January 22, 2014 3:01 pm

Establishment Republicans -- to say nothing of mainstream media liberals -- don't give Heritage Action chief Michael Needham much respect. To put it charitably, that's probably because they just don't get him. (Photo: Heritageaction.com)

Beltway Confidential

Heritage Action’s Michael Needham responds to Ross Douthat

Mark Tapscott · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

The Republican Party's image has changed little in the year since GOP Chairman Reince Priebus published his prescription for broadening the party's appeal despite its investment in outreach to the racial minorities, women and gay voters who backed Democrats decisively in 2012. (AP image)

Little has changed year after GOP’s planned reboot

Thomas Beaumont · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Republican state lawmakers are making another push to extend taxpayer subsidies to help students with special needs attend private schools after it was removed from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's budget. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Wisconsin Republicans re-introducing special needs vouchers

Associated Press · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2013 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaks in Boston. A year after Priebus published a lengthy prescription for broadening the partyÃ?s appeal, the GOPÃ?s image hasnÃ?t changed, despite its investment in outreach to the racial minorities, women and gay voters the party lost in droves to Democrats in 2012. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

GOP image still muddled, a year after suggestions

Associated Press · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

In this Jan. 13 photo, New Hampshire Republican Congressional candidate Dan Innis, right, poses with his partner Doug Palardy, in Portsmouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

3 gay Republicans trying to make election history

Associated Press · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (R-Athens), third from left, speaks during a debate as he is surrounded by, from left, patent attorney Art Gardner, former Secretary of State of Georgia Karen Handel, Georgia Ports Authority board member David Perdue, conservative political activist Derrick Grayson, businessman Eugene Yu, and U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Savannah) Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Cook County High School Performing Arts Center in Adel, Ga. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)

GOP Senate candidates meet for 1st debate of 2014

Associated Press · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

Newly-elected Rep. Vance McAllister, R-La. waits for House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to join him for a ceremonial swearing-in, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Will GOP voters flock to the call of the ‘Duck Dynasty’?

Rebecca Berg · January 17, 2014 5:00 am

Reince Priebus and the Republican National Committee are celebrating raising an "unprecedented" amount of money for a political party out of power in December.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

Beltway Confidential

RNC previews ‘historically amazing’ December fundraising numbers

Charlie Spiering · January 17, 2014 5:00 am

Ed Gillespie set to announce Senate bid in Virginia

Rebecca Berg · January 16, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Tom Coburn, who has been battling cancer, said he's not quitting for health reasons but rather to uphold a promise he made when first elected to the Senate that he wouldn't serve more than two six-year terms. (AP file photo)

Sen. Tom Coburn to step down at end of current Congress, two years before term expires

Sean Lengell · January 16, 2014 5:00 am

RNC ditching role of ad maker, funder

Philip Elliott · January 15, 2014 5:00 am