In &#39;04, GOP Is a Target Missed
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For years, Republicans prospered by casting themselves as Washington&#39;s out-party, promising to clean house in the nation&#39;s capital.
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The 2005 federal budget falls far short of meeting the health-care needs of this country&#39;s military veterans. Congress needs to look at budget priorities and find more money to help these deserving men and women.
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At times it was hard to tell who was the Democrat and who was the Republican in what has shaped up as one of the most important Senate races in the country.
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It seemed like a good idea at the time. When Republicans decided more than 18 months ago to hold their national convention in New York, party leaders were brimming with optimism.
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Washington -- With House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, now involved directly or tangentially in a handful of ethics cases and investigations, some analysts say another setback could substantially weaken the lawmaker&#39;s ability to champion Republican
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Not in a generation has a presidential election been so close for so long. Now, as President Bush is pulling a bit ahead of Sen. John Kerry, every step â-nd misstep
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Alan Keyes was running late, and even a Republican supporter loyal enough to show up for a 6 am campaign &quot;meet-and-greet&quot; couldn&#39;t resist saying what many were probably thinking: &quot;Do you think he&#39;s lost?
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This is where it began for the Republicans in 1994, the year the GOP broke the back of 40 years of Democratic rule in Congress.
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Democrats envisioned picking up as many as four House seats, possibly five. But that goal now seems increasingly remote.
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After an unusually bitter campaign, the two Republicans buried their differences in the name of party unity - and the GOP's new target, Barack Obama
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The congressional Republicans, in changing rules to protect Tom DeLay, were criticized as hypocritical. Such criticism was not founded on all the facts and ignores the reason for the change.
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Republicans are putting forward a softer, more moderate face at their convention this week. That's no place for Tom DeLay, the combustible, conservative House majority leader.
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Republican partisans have a political mantra for the 2008 campaign: The political climate, they contend, canÃ¢ÂÂt possibly be as bad as it was in 2006, when the unpopularity of President George W. Bush and the national Republican Party in general cost the GOP its control of Congress and the governorsÃ¢ÂÂ offices in six states.
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T&#39;S often forgotten that President Ronald Reagan signed a bill to raise taxes in the early 1980&#39;s after first cutting them.
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It was not a landslide, or a re-alignment, or even a seismic shock. But it was decisive, and it is impossible to read President Bush&#39;s re-election with larger Republican majorities in both
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It's no secret that Senate Democrats are looking at a target-rich environment in 2008. Open Republican seats in Colorado, Virginia and Nebraska are likely to be seriously contested by Democrats, while Republican incumbents in Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Oregon are also in danger.
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It&#39;s probably important to say this up front: This year&#39;s presidential election shouldn&#39;t be about George W. Bush&#39;s four years in the Texas Air National Guard or John F. Kerry&#39;s four months in Vietnam.