California GOP’s Rebuilding Project
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 5th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
California GOP’s Rebuilding Project
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
Here’s a rundown on the sad state of the Republican party in California. Republicans haven’t won a Senate contest since 1990. George H. W. Bush was the last Republican presidential candidate to win here. That was in 1988. Barack Obama was reelected with a larger percentage of the vote in 2012 (59 percent) than Ronald Reagan in 1984 (58 percent). And it was long ago in 1976 when S. I. Hayakawa ousted John Tunney from his Senate seat—the last Republican challenger to knock off an incumbent Democrat in a Senate or governor’s race.
The Great Liberal Hobby Lobby Freak-out
James Antle, National Interest
Social liberalism is becoming illiberal. That is the only conclusion that can be reached from the unhinged reaction to the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, which was being mischaracterized before it was even handed down.
For Obama, Loss of Senate Could Be Freeing
Dana Milbank, Wash Post
The walls seem to be closing in on the Obama presidency.Iraq and Syria are overrun with terrorists. Violence is flaring in Ukraine and on Israel’s borders. A humanitarian crisis is developing on our own southern border, but immigration legislation, like most all legislation, is moribund. Probes of the veterans’ health-care system, the IRS and Benghazi are sucking up attention and the administration’s time.
