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TCOT and the Teaparties are ineffective because they attract racists

by @dmooney9 on August 7, 2009 · 3 comments

This column focuses on TCOT’s ineffectiveness and touches on the 68-31 bipartisan victory of Jutice Sotomayor at the end.
Last night TCOT founder Michael P Leahy hosted a conference call to rally supporters to join the planned August 22 anti-Obamacare rallies happening in front of congressional offices across the country. I joined the call 15 minutes [...]

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Republicans, Hispanics, and the Supreme Court

by @rblinne on June 6, 2009 · 0 comments

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When George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004, a permanent Republican majority was plausible. Now Republicans appear to be going the way of the Whigs. What happened? The reason why a Republican majority was plausible was Bush’s strength with Hispanics (at least for a Republican).
If you are going to have a political future as a [...]

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Krauthammer and “judicially mandated racial spoils”

by @dmooney9 on May 30, 2009 · 9 comments

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I read Charles Krauthammer often but don’t think I have ever agreed with him. In his syndicated column this week he made yet another outrageous statement.
Vote Democratic and you get mainstream liberalism: a judicially
mandated racial spoils system and a jurisprudence of empathy that
hinges on which litigant is less “advantaged.”
This statement is so broad and so [...]

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Empathy on the Supreme Court

by @dmooney9 on May 27, 2009 · 5 comments

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Empathy seems to be a vilified word these days. Everyone including Rove and Limbaugh have definitions for what empathy means and what it is “code” for. In today’s Wall Street Journal that most favorite Republican whipping boy Karl Rove said “”Empathy” is the latest code word for liberal activism”
Catholic Culture calls it “A function of [...]

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