Tag: Reince Priebus

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GOP Obamacare Debacle, Scaramucci’s Loose Screw, Politics Plunge NFL Ratings

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Hosted by Greg Corombos, Jim Geraghty

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America condemn Republican Senators John McCain, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski for failing to deliver on their campaign promises to repeal and replace Obamacare during a vote late Thursday night, while also stressing the mistakes made by GOP leaders and the major flaws in the “skinny repeal”. Jim mocks new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci for threats and vulgar comments about his colleagues, underscoring already fractious conditions in the new administration. In an attempt to end the week on a good note, Jim and Greg discuss a new poll showing that more fans stopped watching the NFL last season because of the national anthem protests than for any other reason.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Poll: Who Should Trump Fire?

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Jon Gabriel (a.k.a., @ExJon on Twitter) is the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet. He is a political writer and marketing consultant, contributing articles to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and USA Today among others. Until 2012, he served as Director of Marketing for the free-market Goldwater Institute, where he converted policy initiatives into compelling stories. In the private sector, Jon led marketing efforts for Cold Stone Creamery, Honeywell, and several technology companies. In his… [more]
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White House watchers have spent a lot of time criticizing President Trump’s top staffing choices. Some want former GOP Chairman Reince Priebus booted off the team for being a swamp-enabling RINO squish. Others think former Breitbart boss Steve Bannon will tie the administration to kooky alt-right nationalism. And some think Ivanka’s hubby Jared Kushner is just a Wall Street globalist.

The President is already sick of each team leaking and counterleaking, and Beltway types are wondering when he will decide that enough is enough. What do you think? If Trump had to say “you’re fired” to one of these three, who do you want to be the first to get the boot?

 

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Ronna Romney McDaniel Is New RNC Leader

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Looks like a Romney will be in the mix in Trump’s GOP. The Republican National Committee chose Ronna Romney McDaniel to succeed Reince Priebus, who will serve as the White House Chief of Staff. The details from Fox News:

McDaniel, President-elect Donald Trump’s preferred candidate, previously served as the chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party and played a key role in delivering the state by a thin margin to Trump in the November election.

McDaniel, 43, is the niece of 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney and earned favor with Trump by supporting him despite a feud earlier this year between her uncle and the now-president elect.

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I regret being just young enough to have missed out on any memory at all of the Reagan presidency. I am saved by grace through faith in Christ. That comes first in my life.
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Just nine months ago, Jeremy Corbyn swept into the leadership of the British Labour Party, with an overwhelming 60% of the vote. Today, Labour MPs are trying desperately to force him out. Are they right to do so? Or should they have accepted the decision of the Labour electorate, and backed Corbyn to the bitter […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Ryan and Trump Unite to Unify Potential for Unified Unification

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Jon Gabriel (a.k.a., @ExJon on Twitter) is the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet. He is a political writer and marketing consultant, contributing articles to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and USA Today among others. Until 2012, he served as Director of Marketing for the free-market Goldwater Institute, where he converted policy initiatives into compelling stories. In the private sector, Jon led marketing efforts for Cold Stone Creamery, Honeywell, and several technology companies. In his… [more]
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paul-ryan-donald-trumpThough not held at Camp David or Reykjavik, the summit between presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan created nearly as much speculation as an ’80s arms-control treaty. Last week, Speaker Ryan said he was “just not ready” to endorse Trump, to which Trump responded he was “just not ready” to endorse Ryan’s legislative agenda.

But at a meeting today in DC, it was all smiles and happy talk, though light on substance. The dueling Republicans released an official statement that read like an early-stage UN negotiation:

The United States cannot afford another four years of the Obama White House, which is what Hillary Clinton represents. That is why it’s critical that Republicans unite around our shared principles, advance a conservative agenda, and do all we can to win this fall. With that focus, we had a great conversation this morning. While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground. We will be having additional discussions, but remain confident there’s a great opportunity to unify our party and win this fall, and we are totally committed to working together to achieve that goal. We are extremely proud of the fact that many millions of new voters have entered the primary system, far more than ever before in the Republican Party’s history. This was our first meeting, but it was a very positive step toward unification.

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After a week of conservatives issuing well-deserved congratulations to Cruz and Christie for counter-punching the CNBC debate moderators and hurling equally deserved recriminations at RNC chair Reince Priebus for creating the problem in the first place, the paleo-media and their champion President Obama have re-directed the narrative away from the shameful and biased behavior of the CNBC hosts […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Memo To Reince: Enough is Enough. Boycott NBC and ABC.

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Stephen Miller is a digital media designer + consultant, writer and activist in occupied Brooklyn, N.Y. He also publishes and produces The Wilderness, which focuses on viral politics and social media narratives. He's recently converted over to an electric toothbrush to cut down on ozone pollution from coming out of  his mouth.
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During a 2012 Republican primary debate, George Stephanopoulos asked Mitt Romney an obviously slanted if not altogether planted question about banning birth control. This mystified Romney since he had never even considered the issue as part of his platform. No major Republican had. But Stephanopoulos raised the issue and because of it, the GOP was forced to fight a two-year-long, imaginary “war on women.”

This talking point was later used by David Gregory on “Meet the Press” against Todd Akin whom handled it less articulately than Romney. But the fault in that did not lie with Stephanopoulos; it rested solely at the feet of the RNC for approving a former Clinton White House operative and still loyal Clinton acolyte to moderate a GOP debate.

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