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By David Gibson - Politics DailyAnh "Joseph" Cao was widely seen as a congressman of genuine integrity at a time when voters were looking for politicians they could trust, a man who seemed able to overcome the odds without losing his soul. A freshman Republican from Louisiana's strongly Democratic 2nd District, Cao sometimes bucked his party's leadership but at other times took positions at odds with the views of his constituents. He was a Vietnamese-American -- the first elected to Congress -- in a district that was 60 percent black, a onetime Catholic seminarian who in 2008 defeated an African-American Democrat who was ...
Opinion: Religious Right and the Tea Party: A Marriage of Convenience?
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(Sept. 28) -- Many Americans were alarmed in the 1980s when the religious right seemed determined to control everyone's life from the moment of conception until the moment of death. These days, many share a similar distaste for the tea party movement, which believes some mystical force called "The Market" will make all of America's problems dissipate in a frenzy of mergers and acquisitions that will trickle benefits to the unemployed, the uninsured and the underserved. ANOTHER VIEW The Tea Party Unites Fiscal and Social Conservatism -- Penny Nance, CEO, Concerned Women for ...
Religious Right Opposes Health Care (But Where's the Religion?)
By David Gibson - Politics DailyHarry and Louise aren't dead -- yet. The fictional couple whose famous TV spots in the 1990s drove a stake of fear through the heart of the Clinton effort at health care reform briefly reprised their act last summer with a less oppositional message. Now that they're older, maybe the couple is actually worried about their health care -- unless, of course, they have government-run Medicare. The recent effort was pretty moribund compared to the 1993 campaign, and no TV ads during this year's health care go-round have approached the impact of the old "Harry and Louise" shtick -- until now. ...
Mitt Romney's Enemies, Gearing Up for 2012 Fight
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWhen former Governor Mitt Romney spoke at the Family Research Council's "Values Voters Summit" in Washington about 10 days ago, he came in a distant second place in a straw poll behind his archenemy, Mike Huckabee. And he only narrowly beat out former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty in an event that signaled the unofficial start of Romney's 2012 GOP primary campaign. In fact, he never seemed to stop running. The night before speaking, he hosted an event called Sundaes with Mitt. But the summit poll showed the steep hill Romney has to climb over the next three years and was, no doubt, a coup for ...
Town Halls Go to Church to Beat Health Care Reform
By David Gibson - Politics DailyJust last week, President Obama rallied the so-called Religious Left with a nationwide "conference call" with progressive religious leaders -- and some 300,000 listeners so far, according to organizers at Faith in Public Life. It was seen as a direct challenge to the Religious Right on its own turf: grassroots mobilizing. Now Christian conservatives are striking back with a plan to organize their own health care town halls -- modeled on the raucous meetings that lawmakers have been holding during the August recess -- at churches sympathetic to the cause of defeating Obamacare, and, most ...
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