Republicans - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:19:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Republicans - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 3 Surprising Things About Kevin McCarthy https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/01/11/three-surprising-things-about-kevin-mccarthy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-surprising-things-about-kevin-mccarthy Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:35:54 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1617894 Following Kevin McCarthy’s much-covered, much-discussed 15-vote pizza eatin’ odyssey to become speaker of the House, you might think you know everything there is to know about the Republican Congressman. Guess again! While most of the articles and reports on McCarthy have focused on his career in politics—which dates back to the late 1980s—other aspects of […]

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5 Republican Politicians Freaking Out About DC’s Vaccine Mandates https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/01/24/5-republican-congressmen-freaking-out-about-dcs-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-republican-congressmen-freaking-out-about-dcs-vaccine-mandates Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:10:48 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1564718 Rand Paul The Kentucky Senator, along with four Republican co-sponsors, has introduced legislation that would repeal what he calls “ridiculous, unscientific” DC vaccine mandates for students as well for indoor venues ranging from restaurants to gyms. While he argues the mandates infringe on the rights of parents and consumers, DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton calls his […]

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Whenever a Party Loses, People Start Think Tanks https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/06/23/party-loses-start-think-tanks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=party-loses-start-think-tanks Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:00:17 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1534288 Three things are certain after a presidential-election defeat: infighting, second-guessing, and efforts to create a new think tank. In 1989, Democrats had just lost a third presidential election by being cast as too far left. In response, party moderates formed the Progressive Policy Institute to come up with more palatable policies. PPI ideas such as […]

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GOP Politicians Have Repeatedly Been Bamboozled by Satire. Are We One Onion Article Away From Total Chaos? https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/04/15/a-short-history-of-gop-politicians-getting-bamboozled-by-satire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-short-history-of-gop-politicians-getting-bamboozled-by-satire Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:18:36 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1498239 A Senate confirmation hearing for Kristen Clarke—President Biden’s pick to head the Department of Justice’s civil rights division—included an interrogation from Republican Senator John Cornyn. During Clarke’s questioning, the Texas senator asked whether she really believed “African Americans were genetically superior to caucasians.” The “belief” he was questioning: a satirical op-ed Clarke had written for a […]

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Odd Stat: GOP Registration in DC Actually Rose Post-Insurrection https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/02/11/odd-stat-gop-registration-in-dc-actually-rose-post-insurrection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=odd-stat-gop-registration-in-dc-actually-rose-post-insurrection Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:25:11 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1436289 The New York Times has a breathless story this morning about the exodus of registered Republicans from the GOP in the wake of the January 6 assault on the Capitol. According to the Times, nearly 140,000 people in the 25 states with readily available data had bailed on the party—including 33,000 in California, 12,000 in Pennsylvania, and 10,000 […]

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5 Election Disasters You Weren’t Already Worrying About https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/09/21/5-election-disasters-you-werent-already-worrying-about/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-election-disasters-you-werent-already-worrying-about Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:00:51 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1272366 For perhaps the first time in our history, ordinary Americans are worried about whether the world’s oldest democracy can actually pull off a democratic election. And plenty of political pros are worrying right along with them. We asked a bipartisan group of five experts to unspool their own specific disaster scenarios. Here’s what’s keeping each […]

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DC Statehood Gets Increasing Support from Democrats https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/09/09/dc-statehood-gets-increasing-support-from-democrats/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-statehood-gets-increasing-support-from-democrats Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:48:04 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1264645 A new poll shows that support for DC statehood has increased nationwide, according to Data for Progress and YouGov Blue. Out of a sample of 1,025 voters, the report found that 43 percent support statehood, up from 35 percent in 2019. The biggest change? Democrats. The issue of statehood has long been seen as a […]

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Writing Through the Pandemic: Judith Viorst and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad President https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/07/08/writing-through-the-pandemic-judith-viorst-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-president/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writing-through-the-pandemic-judith-viorst-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-president Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:22:03 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1168724 We asked Washington writers to share stories, poems, drafts, musings, and other things they’ve been working on during the pandemic. Today, a verse from Judith Viorst, whose many books for children and adults include, most famously, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. A graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Viorst is […]

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Kellyanne and George Conway’s Weird, Fascinating, and Maybe Perfectly Healthy Marriage: Charted https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/05/14/kellyanne-conway-george-conway-weird-fascinating-and-maybe-perfectly-healthy-marriage-charted/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kellyanne-conway-george-conway-weird-fascinating-and-maybe-perfectly-healthy-marriage-charted Thu, 14 May 2020 11:00:03 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1108671 Washington may never have seen a marriage quite like the Conways’: Kellyanne, the longtime advisor to President Trump. George, the prolific public tormenter of his wife’s boss. After George announced late in 2019 that he would work to defeat the President’s re-election by launching an anti-Trump super-PAC, we decided to look back on the arrangement […]

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Republicans Misquoted Not One but Two Impeachment Books https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/12/05/republicans-misquoted-not-one-but-two-impeachment-books/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=republicans-misquoted-not-one-but-two-impeachment-books Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:53:56 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=944751 About four hours into yesterday’s marathon impeachment hearings, Republican lawyer for the Judiciary Committee Paul Taylor delivered a sharp rebuke to the Democrats’ case for bringing articles of impeachment. For nearly nine hours, the committee would hear from four experts in constitutional law, three of whom testified in favor of impeaching Donald Trump. But Taylor had […]

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