NEW YORK (AP) — The GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility no more. That’s according to some conservatives who are grappling with a Republican-backed spending binge that threatens to generate trillion-dollar deficits for years to come while staining a cherished pillar of the modern-day Republican Party. While President Donald Trump and his allies hope […]
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Conservatives balk at GOP plan to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hard-line conservatives are threatening to scuttle Republican leaders’ plans to prevent a weekend government shutdown and saying GOP leaders lack the votes to push their proposal through the House. The setback late Tuesday came as a deal between President Donald Trump and Congress to protect young immigrants from deportation also remained distant. […]
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Children saw through the conservatives’ ruse
Can we stop talking now about “thoughtful” conservatives? That phrase and various variations have been used by certain Republicans over the years to distinguish them, with their principled belief in low taxes, less regulation and other elements of conservative orthodoxy, from those wild-eyed types who believe in gay bans, Muslim bans and Kenyan birth. To […]
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Conservative commentator warns Trump is dangerous
LEWISTON — Tara Setmayer, a conservative commentator on CNN, calls herself one of “the sentinels in the watchtower” trying to help defend the republic against the danger posed by its own president. She said Republican Donald Trump’s elevation to the nation’s highest office “is challenging and it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Speaking to […]
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Neil Gorsuch's convenient untruth
WASHINGTON — With a shrewdly calculated innocence, Judge Neil Gorsuch told a big fat lie at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Because it was a lie everyone expected, nobody called it that. “There’s no such thing as a Republican judge or a Democratic judge,” Gorsuch said. Gorsuch, the amiable veteran of many Republican campaigns, is […]
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Conservatives rebel on health care, and GOP looks to Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans confronted a conservative rebellion in their own party Tuesday over their long-promised plans to repeal and replace the health care law, and beseeched President Donald Trump to settle the dispute in his first speech to a joint session of Congress. “He’s the leader on this issue right now; he’s the one […]
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Two types of people
There are differences between conservatives and liberals. For instance, conservatives enforce the laws. If they don’t like them, they vote in people who will change them. Liberals — if they don’t like the laws, they ignore them and don’t enforce them. To conservatives, illegal means “against the law.” For liberals, it depends on what the […]
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Conservative propaganda
Once again, Thomas Shields is spreading propaganda touting the virtues of conservative politics (March 19). Americans don’t support welfare as a way of life. Certainly fraud shouldn’t be tolerated. What conservatives and liberals disagree on is how to fix it. According to usgovernmentspending.com, welfare is 6 percent of the 2016 Maine budget and 7 percent […]
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Maine conservative think tank details plans for 2016
AUBURN — The state’s most visible bastion of conservative thought is poised to significantly up its game for 2016, its executive director told a gathering of about 20 people at a luncheon Wednesday at the Hilton Garden Inn. “The first thing we can acknowledge and probably talk about very quickly is what a big year […]
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J. Christiansen: How did LePage get re-elected?
This is in response to Ellie Leight’s letter, “Why does the public support LePage? (Feb. 24). I have asked the same question. I don’t know which was more shocking, that someone who accomplishes so little and represents the state so badly was re-elected, or, that the electorate would vote for someone like that. Witness his […]