AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
Tony Perkins
CPAC Chair David Keene Responds to Social Conservatives
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyFriday afternoon, I had a chance to catch up with David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, the group that runs the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., each year. In recent days, CPAC has come under criticism from social conservative groups for allowing GOProud -- a gay conservative group -- to co-sponsor the event. Some conservative groups, including The Family Research Council (FRC), have even announced they are boycotting this year's gathering because of it. Keene acknowledged to me that he has "great admiration for [FRC President] Tony ...
Family Research Council Explains Boycott of Conservative Conference
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIn an e-mail to supporters titled "Sticking Up for the 'C' in CPAC," Tony Perkins, president of the prominent Family Research Council, explained why his socially conservative group would not attend this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). "FRC has chosen not to partner with a 'conservative' event that places the protection of marriage on the same plane as redefining it," wrote Perkins, referencing the involvement of the gay conservative group GOProud at the conference. "Would CPAC team up with the Brady Campaign which fights to restrict -- if not abolish -- the Second ...
Rep. Joseph Cao Calls Christian Group 'Ignorant' for Costing Him Election
By David Gibson - Politics DailyLouisiana GOP Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao is still smarting over the successful efforts of a leading lobby of the Christian right to defeat him in last week's election, a loss that denied Republicans a chance to hold a traditionally Democratic seat and ensure a second term for the first Vietnamese-American in Congress. While the defeat was easily overlooked in the Republicans' euphoria after their sweep of the House, Cao remains angry at Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council for launching a last-minute radio ad against him, and for effectively fragging a fellow pro-lifer who is a former ...
Louisiana's Anh 'Joseph' Cao, First Vietnamese-American in Congress, a Rare GOP Loss
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 ...
Tony Perkins of Family Research Council Bumped From Prayer Lunch
By David Gibson - Politics DailyTony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council and a fierce critic of the Obama administration, says he was uninvited from participation in the National Prayer Luncheon scheduled for Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base. The reason? Perkins says the diss was due to his full-throated opposition to Obama's support for ending the "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy on gays serving in the military. ...
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 ...
Poll: How Long Before Michael Steele Resigns?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyRNC Chairman Michael Steele finds himself in the now-familiar position of having to clarify comments made during an interview. Last week, he faced a similar quandary after openly criticizing Rush Limbaugh. Today, he's trying to explain his perplexing remarks to GQ magazine in which Steele called abortion a matter of "individual choice."Though most Americans agree with Steele on the abortion question, the Republican party most certainly does not. So, the man who proclaimed himself the leader of the GOP had a whole lot of explaining to do today to an ever exasperated segment Republican audience. ...
GOP Third Party Talk Was Just That
By Jonathan Berr - Politics DailyRemember how social conservatives said they would bolt the Republican party if Rudy Giuliani was the GOP nominee? Well, The Hill reports that some of the more level-headed conservatives such as Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins are backtracking from that vow. Speaking to reporters at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor in advance of next week's Values Voter Summit, Bauer and Perkins backed away from earlier threats that Christian conservatives would consider a third-party bid if a pro-abortion rights candidate wins the GOP nomination. They both agreed that supporting such a bid ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics