“Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.” GuyPartyStepsCenturyRepublicanRepublican PartyRomney Author:David Letterman
“Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.” IfsGivingYearsPastPoliticalCoursesNationsStepsCollegeRepublicanSixTownsElectionTreatedPresidentialFortyPropositionsResortsSkisPresidential ElectionGaugesPunditsTruismShotguns Book:Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals Source: Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.” IfsMenWorldFirstsWarRealPoliticalNationsSocialGoalPartyCommonExistenceStepsClassEconomicRepublicanBasesDenyCorporateAcknowledgeElitesFirst StepsNurtureRepublican PartyPolitical SystemsCommon ManGopSocial ClassBacklashCorporate WorldClass System Author:Thomas Frank
“If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.” IfsKindTwoWould BeStepsRepublicanElectionFundamentalsDemocratCommittedVicesReformPresidentialCandidatesVice PresidentPresidential Candidate Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God.” PeopleWaySaidHumorAmericaSpiritualHouseNationsChristNaturalReligiousPrayerStepsOughtCallingRepublicanNormalDemocratCongressPositive AtheismYesterdayKneesThings To DoEtcBlessGod BlessDisregardedGod Bless America Author:Jerry Falwell
“As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.” PresidentLeaderStepsRepublicanSpendingPlatesReducingStep UpExcessive Spending Author:Mitch McConnell
“Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.” PeopleThinkingMeanIdeasSeemsChristianChurchStepsDrinkRepublicanSittingRecoveryMainstreamBasementsVery Mean12 Step Recovery12 Step Author:Bucky Sinister
“Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do.” ThinkingImportantProblemPartyStepsRepublicanImportant ThingsRecoveryRepublican PartyAdmitting Author:Andrea Tantaros
“Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.” CareLawProcessStepsSupportTakenRepublicanDemocratCongressHealth CareInitialsAffordableAffordable Care ActRallyingAlready TakenRepealing Author:Rachel Martin
“I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsKindLeftPartyStepsProductsSourceRepublicanNewsValuableContemporaryMainstreamRepublican PartyAffirmingReassuringInsurgencyContemporary Society Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.” PeopleWayWantYearsPartyStepsRepublicanPercentMinoritiesWillingnessWrong Way Author:Barbara Boxer