Republicans Can't Handle The Truth

You won't see this story on Fox, and you won't read it in the Wall Street Journal.

But it really happened. And if you recently voted Republican, more of this sort of political propagandizing by the most powerful elected Republicans is what you have voted to help enable. Whichever policy you support, suppressing the facts and suppressing non-partisan, professional analysis as Senate Republicans just did, is simply un-American.

Nonpartisan Tax Report Withdrawn After G.O.P. Protest
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
Published: November 1, 2012

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economic theory, after Senate Republicans raised concerns about the paper’s findings and wording.

The decision, made in late September against the advice of the agency’s economic team leadership, drew almost no notice at the time. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, cited the study a week and a half after it was withdrawn in a speech on tax policy at the National Press Club.

But it could actually draw new attention to the report, which questions the premise that lowering the top marginal tax rate stimulates economic growth and job creation.

“This has hues of a banana republic,” Mr. Schumer said. “They didn’t like a report, and instead of rebutting it, they had them take it down.”

Republicans did not say whether they had asked the research service, a nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress, to take the report out of circulation, but they were clear that they protested its tone and findings...

John, in terms of the cultural battle, it is interesting that the Teapublican partisans which dominate the Republican Party today are largely older white men.

These folks were the younger folks who were part of the Nixon 'silent majority' of the 1960's. Today, the culture war that broke out in the 60's is being revisited.

But demographics and values have moved forward.

Frankly, the Democrats really NEED a legitimate center right party (let's call that party the Republicans) to work with in order to effectively govern. The Teapublican partisans who dominate the Republican Party today are bad for the Republican Party (those demographics are going to increasingly undermine its voice). (I'd note as an aside that the only reason the Teapublicans didn't get pushed back big time in the House, like they did in the Senate was the control Republicans had in critical state houses during redistricting which happens every 10 years). But that Teapublican dominance is also bad for governance in general as the Democratic party doesn't have a moderating partner for bipartisan governance -- and they seriously need that.

actually the Conservative Catholic is a modern product. 50's and 60's Catholics were very liberal and supported Democratics ideals(house and feed the poor, take care of those that cannot take care of themselves). Modern Catholics are all about the abortion issue. They've seem to have forgotten own to look after those that are already alive and worry about those that aren't, yet. Noble as that is it still is a deep change in philosophy for the Catholics
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Skill, to a large degree, the developing schism within the Catholic church is similar to the schism with the Republican party.

A large proportion (probably a solid majority here) of Catholics are NOT supportive of the birth control diktat of the church. Also a fair proportion don't support the Churches absolute position on abortion. Further, on issues regarding women's role within the church, celebacy of priests, protection of predators within the church, and a number of other issues, the Church is doing itself more harm than help. These plus a retreat from social justice positions have meant that large numbers of Catholics have left the church -- either to become non-observers, or to join in increasing numbers some evangelical church.

The Republican party is faced with somewhat similar dilemmas - the antipathy toward the poor, toward immigrants, toward gays is attracting far right advocates who previously might have been outside of the party, while losing moderates, gays (who might well support rational fiscal conservatism), hispanics and the young.

Skill, to a large degree, the developing schism within the Catholic church is similar to the schism with the Republican party.

A large proportion (probably a solid majority here) of Catholics are NOT supportive of the birth control diktat of the church. Also a fair proportion don't support the Churches absolute position on abortion. Further, on issues regarding women's role within the church, celebacy of priests, protection of predators within the church, and a number of other issues, the Church is doing itself more harm than help. These plus a retreat from social justice positions have meant that large numbers of Catholics have left the church -- either to become non-observers, or to join in increasing numbers some evangelical church.

The Republican party is faced with somewhat similar dilemmas - the antipathy toward the poor, toward immigrants, toward gays is attracting far right advocates who previously might have been outside of the party, while losing moderates, gays (who might well support rational fiscal conservatism), hispanics and the young.

Check out the birth rate in Italy -- a nominally Catholic country.

Time warp? I think all of you are completely missing the mark!

The tea idiots are throwbacks to the 4th century!! Absolutely no different that any other fundamentalist religion.

For many years they were taken in by the democrat party. Then sometime around the 60's the democrats threw them out. It took until the 80's before the idiots settled into the Republican party. Now that they seem to have gone off and formed the Tea idiots perhaps the Republicans can finish throwing them out and they can become a totally marginalized non issue.

Republicans have lost the culture war.

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Voters in Maryland, Maine, and Washington voted yes on ballot initiatives legalizing gay marriage. In Minnesota, a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage went down in defeat.

Voters also rejected the constant right-wing demagoguery on reproductive rights. They defeated Amendment 6 in Florida, which would have seriously restricted funding of abortion by taking away insurance coverage of abortion for many state employees.