U.S. Republican Party Politics

Illegal Immigrants Should Be Able To Stay In California, Voters Say

We're not sure what's happened in recent years, but California's stance toward illegal immigrants has gone from the hate of the Pete Wilson '90s to almost nothin' but love today (unless, of course, you listen to AM talk radio). USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll numbers released over the weekend s ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Only a few short weeks into the new year and the GOP is busy. The president's recent inaugurati ... More >>

Proposition 40 Absentee Ballot Election Results: Stupidest Measure on California's Nov. 6 Ballot Looking Like a Goner

With early results in, it looks like an embarrassing, costly, if not downright silly, re-do of California's 40 state Senate voting districts will not be required just a year after the California Citizens Redistricting Commission did a solid job of redrawing them. It all depends on how confused vot ... More >>

Dr. Matthew Lin to Sacramento, Stat?

GOP surgeon may beat Dems for first time since '70s in San Gabriel Valley

Obamacare Was a Republican Idea! 5 Obama Issues The GOP Once Owned

Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>

Richard Riordan Woos Latinos For Republican Party: Will They Join The Juan Percent?

Ex-L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan wants to recruit more Latinos to the Republican party, and he's putting some of his considerable money behind the effort. Smart move: The latest U.S. Census figures suggest that Latinos will be the biggest ethnic group in California, perhaps by the end of 2013. And the ... More >>

Arizona Nutjob Sheriff Joe Arpaio Bringing His Drivel to Beverly Hills

There goes the neighborhood. Self-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff" and aging crackpot Joe Arpaio will be bringing his special brand of media whoring from Phoenix, Arizona, to Beverly Hills on Friday. Arpaio's endorsing Phil Liberatore, a mustachioed conservative facing off in the Republican ... More >>

State Republican Leaders Get in Bed With ... Villaraigosa (!?) in Bid For Post-Miramonte Teacher Reform

Strange bedfellows have arisen from the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal in which two teachers face charges for lewd conduct and a slew of allegations have hit educators at other area campuses. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who once vowed to take over the L.A. school district and wh ... More >>

Sarah Palin Must Run, Says Jerry 'Peace Activist' Rubin, Who's on 1-Month Hunger Strike to Add More Chaos to GOP Lineup

Palin inspires a diet plan.​In an only-in-L.A. scenario, one ultra-lefty really wants Sarah Palin to run for president. So much so that he's been on a hunger strike for one month to urge the Alaskan to get on the campaign trail. Our old pal Jerry Peace Activist Rubin (that's his legal name) i ... More >>

Craig Huey Takes Aim At Janice Hahn: "She Won't Know What's Gonna Hit Her"

Craig Huey, conservative hero​Craig Huey became an instant conservative hero Tuesday night when he came out of nowhere to beat Secretary of State Debra Bowen in unofficial returns in the 36th District Congressional primary. Though his margin remains razor-close with thousands of ballots to count, ... More >>

They Still Heart Huckabee

They ♥ Huckabee

The problem with hearing Mike Huckabee speak at the Angelus Temple is that you first have to sit through 20 minutes of the temple's house band, Press Play, a kind of Up With Christian People rock ensemble that makes one nostalgic for the 1980s metallurgical hosannas of Stryper. A second problem is ... More >>

Schwarzenegger's Budget Veto Drama

Dems threaten an override, Arnold says back: I'll veto hundreds of your new laws

Gramm Cracker Crust: John McCain's Surrogate Trouble

Indy Mac implodes and Johnny Mac's exposed, as econ guru suffers from recession of the brain

Prop. 93: Nunez's Term-limits Scam

Voters are clueless that one-third of California's termed-out legislators could stay on

There’s Shrinkage

Majority Democrats can’t find the balls to face down Republican brinkmanship

The Greatest Good for the Smallest Number

The Republican Congress doesn’t like to legislate, and it shows

Saturday's Stroll

Felt all the way to Washington, the Big March left Arnold unable to play the immigrant card

Whose Backlash?

Nuestro backlash

Minutemen vs. Bush's Moderate Side

Republicans are fighting among themselves over immigration. Will Democrats have a voice?

Shame. Shame. Shame.

But can Democrats fill the vacuum?

The Hammer Gets Nailed

Tom DeLay’s political games come to an end

The Smart Guy

Cox in charge of Wall Street? Dumb.

Where’s Their Sense of Decency?

Republicans sell out Christopher Reeve’s paralysis bill

Double Trouble

Tom DeLay and his bid to buy the Texas Legislature

Democratic Doldrums

How John Kerry has emerged from them before, and how he can do it again

GOP Action Heroes

Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush twins

War Party

John Kerry gets his marching orders in New York

Waiting for Karen

George’s pals are doing him wrong, but can Hughes save him?

GOP Girl Power

Laura Flanders’ Bushwomen

Arnold the Taxmanian

The governor’s plan to raise taxes

The Lost President

Can Karl Rove help this man find his way?

The Chameleon Candidate

Wesley Clark, Democrat or Republican?

Back at the Carnival

We had a toilet dunk, loopy announcer and fireworks, but no cotton candy

Recall's Side Effects

The frantic push to get a health insurance bill to Davis in what could be his final days in office

The Recall Is Not Our Friend

As opportunities for the left go, it’s up there with the Nader presidency

Neocons Run Amok!

Republicans not with them are now the enemy, too

Taking Down Gray

Talk of recalling unpopular governor leads to Dick Riordan and Bill Simon Jr., and many others

Look Homeward, Pollster

The little bit of Lott in all of us

The Election Where Nobody Came

What to make of last week’s voting in California and L.A.

The Old Order Trembles

And who knows what -- in our economy and our politics -- is about to give way?

Reforming Riordan

High time for change in California

One-Trick Party

In war and peace, Republicans replenish the rich

The Natural

Despite his deficiency of backbone, Bill Clinton was the greatest pol of his generation

Make Nice

The GOP goes gooey

Odd Ends

Outtakes from the primaries

Endorsements

Being Ron Unz

The Genius Son of a Welfare Mother, He Made a Fortune in Computers. Now He's Spending it Trying to Reshape the World

Clinton Claims the Center

Wrong Year for Rock Ribs

Outmoded stance will cost Rebublicans