Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Thursday, June 12, 2014
POLITICAL UPSET
Wow
On
Tuesday Night, Representative
Eric Cantor (R, VA-7) lost his primary election to Tea Party backed candidate
Dave Brat.
Cantor became the first House Majority
Leader
to lose a primary
since the position was created in 1899.
According
to a profile on Politico, Brat is an
economics professor at Randolph Macon College in Ashland, VA. This was not the
first time that Cantor faced a primary challenge. In 2012, Cantor defeated
Floyd Bayne
by 60 points before
going on to a 17-point victory that November.
Cantor
had several advantages going into this election: name recognition, money, and of course incumbency.
Why didn't those things help him win on Tuesday Night?
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
TWIRLING TOWARDS FREEDOM
"My
fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I
say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always
twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom."
- President
Clinton Kodos, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VII, Citizen Kang
I
think I found the ideal quote that sums up the Texas Republican Party's
convention and platform and the overall state of the Republican Party in the
Obama era.
Late
last week the Texas GOP convened in Fort Worth for their biennial hate fest
convention.
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