It was Bobby Jindal who warned his party to “stop being the stupid party.” And Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said today that his party needs to stop running around saying “biologically stupid things” — and avoid...
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Priebus: ‘Traveling Circus’ Out — ‘Biologically Stupid’ Talk Forbidden
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The new website of Hillary Clinton in Washington.
Gridiron’s ‘Hillary’: ‘Will You Select Me, Will You Elect Me, When I’m 69?’
The president tends to hog the headlines when he shows up at the Gridiron Club’s spring dinner — as President Barack Obama has done only twice since moving to the White House. This year, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal managed to...
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President Barack Obama walks with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, right, as they leave the Gridiron Dinner through a loading area at a hotel in Washington, on March 9, 2013.
Obama’s Gridiron: Jindal’s Night
President Barack Obama, wearing white tie and tails at Washington’s premiere show of political satire, made light of budget cuts consuming the capital. “Because of sequester, they cut my tails,” Obama said at the head table of the Gridiron Club’s...
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in Iowa.
Jindal’s Warning to ‘The Stupid Party’
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is a “shining star” of the Republican Party, “someone you can believe in,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said last night in Charlotte as he introduced the RNC winter convention’s keynote speaker. Jindal proceeded to...
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Protesters rally outside the office of Sen. Marco Rubio on Dec. 10, 2012 in Doral, Florida.
Fiscal Cliff Fast-Forwarded to 2016
The division within the Republican Party can be seen in congressional votes cast on the tax bill and the reaction to its passage, especially among potential 2016 presidential candidates. Rep. Paul Ryan voted yes, while Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul...
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Mitt Romney (L) campaigns with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in Delaware, Ohio, in October. Photograph by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Hard-Head Christie Hits Romney on ‘Gifts’
You lost, bro. Now run along and find something to do. That was pretty much the sentiment this morning from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who criticized failed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for attributing his defeat to government “gifts”...
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Mitt Romney, as the Republican presidential candidate, arrives on stage at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
Romney Remarks: `The Dumb Party’
Mitt Romney’s campaign already had suffered from the publication of some words offered in private to supporters — telling fundraisers during his run for president that 47 percent of Americans pay no taxes, are victims of government dependency and politically...
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Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, in July 2011. Photograph by Peter Foley/Bloomberg
Christie’s Vegas Get-Away: Comparing Sandy-Katrina Notes
Chris Christie will head outside of New Jersey tomorrow for the first time since superstorm Sandy ravaged the state last month, with the governor attending a meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Las Vegas. “I’m the vice chair and...
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Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, arrives on stage to speak at the Republican National Convention.
Rubio Loads the 2016 Starting Gun — `1st of 2016ers’ in Iowa
This didn’t take long.Sen. Marco Rubio, that rising star of the Republican Party from Florida who was considered as a possible running mate for presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is bound for Iowa. The junior senator from Miami will headline a...
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Mitt Romney tours a hurricane damaged neighborhood on August 31, 2012 in Lafitte, Louisiana.
Schumer Takes Exception to Romney’s Louisiana Stop
The Senate’s third-ranking Democrat is calling Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s trip to hurricane-damaged parts of Louisiana today `an affront” to the storm victims, citing Romney running mate Paul Ryan’s opposition to a disaster-funding mechanism put in place by the...
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