Tag: Republican Party

The number of food stamp recipients has increased by almost one-half since Obama took office. (AP File)

Examiner Editorial: Why work when you can live comfortably on the government dole?

Editorial Writer · October 27, 2013 4:00 am

"There certainly is some irony. The Democrats shut down [the] government because they wouldn't accept a one-year delay. Now it's so bad they're actually in favor of a one-year delay," Paul said during an interview. (AP Photo)

Rand Paul threatens to hold up Janet Yellen nomination over audit of the Federal Reserve

Joseph Lawler · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

RedState's Daniel Horowitz countered critics of the recent shutdown fight by articulating what he regards as the "inconvenient truth" of the current Senate: Republicans give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., an effective supermajority on an array of issues. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Do Republicans give Senate Democrats a supermajority?

Joel Gehrke · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Upset with President Obama's immigration policy, about 250 people marched to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office with a goal of stopping future deportations on Oct. 14 in Phoenix.ÃÂ A surge in the number of illegal immigrants seeking asylum after crossing the U.S. border is likely to become a major area of contention as Washington gears up for another clash over immigration reform.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Number of immigrants seeking asylum spikes

Brian Hughes · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel blasts Obama’s ‘grand bargain’ as ‘foolish,’ hints at higher office

Paul Bedard · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue, shown above with President Obama on Feb. 7, 2011, expressed displeasure with Tea Party Republicans over the government shutdown. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Angry business groups consider challenging Tea Party incumbents

Rebecca Berg · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Republicans fear that Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., could survive re-election in 2018 if the party nominates a flawed candidate.

Joe Manchin: The maverick from West Virginia

Steve Contorno · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

In 2012, the Obama campaign harnessed social media and synthesized data much more effectively than Republicans. Data Trust hopes to reverse that trend in the future. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Outside firm key to success of GOP’s digital future

David M. Drucker · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Washington Secrets

GOP threatens subpoena, says Kathleen Sebelius either lied or was ignorant of Obamacare woes

Paul Bedard · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Patty Murray, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, is expected to put her staff into Obamacare. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Democrats expected to exempt staff from Obamacare

Paul Bedard · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

This photo taken Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 shows Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad speaking during his weekly news conference at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Fed up with being pushed aside, veteran Iowa Republicans are quietly working to wrest control of the state GOP from the evangelicals, tea partyers and libertarians they blame for alienating longtime party loyalists and diminishing the stateÃ?s coveted presidential caucuses. Led by Branstad, these Republicans want to grow the state party __ led lately by ideological crusaders __ by bringing back into the fold voters seeking pragmatic solutions to a host of problems and attracting people of diverse political stripes, including women and younger voters. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Veteran Iowa Republicans seek state GOP makeover

Associated Press · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

Kristol: Republicans Should Pass Bill that Says, ‘If You Like Your Current Health Care Plan, You Can Keep It’

Daniel Halper · October 23, 2013 11:51 am