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The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
nytimes.com - 24 days ago
The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
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BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what ...

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Douglas L. Hoffman's America
BAGnewsNotes — ... Given the "double exposure," Hoffman and his campaign couldn't put more weight on this scene. As a Palin, Beck, Kristol, Bachmann, Malkin, Armey, WSJ and even Thompson-infused right-wing election calling card, it screams " ...

Frank Rich, American Idiot
Valley of the Shadow — ... 1) First, by Rich: "The New York fracas was ignited by the routine decision of 11 local Republican county chairmen to anoint an assemblywoman, Dede Scozzafava, as their party’s nominee for the vacant seat. The 23rd is in safe Republican territory that hasn’t sent a Democrat to Congress in decades. And Scozzafava is a mainstream conservative by New York standards; one statistical measure found her voting record slightly to the right of her fellow Republicans in the Assembly. But she has occasionally strayed from orthodoxy on social issues (abortion, same-sex ...

Why the GOP Will Rise Again
Vanity Fair | VF.com — ... The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional district, which occupies some other universe than the one commonly associated with New York, wherein the designated middle of the road Republican fell to a crypto-fascist sort conservative, is meant to signal, at least for liberals, an internecine death struggle within the GOP. The hardliners, along with Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Fox News, will force the party so far to the right that it will be merely an oddball outpost. At the same time, the changing color and changing demographics of the US mean, ...