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Republicans Want Fewer Debates in 2016
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As Republicans look to pick up Democratic-held seats in their bid to gain control of the U.S. Senate, some are targeting an unlikely state -- Oregon.
The Beaver State has not elected a Republican in a statewide election since 2002. But some believe first-term incumbent Sen. Jeff Merkley is vulnerable, partly because of his enthusiastic support for ObamaCare in a state that had a disastrous rollout of its failed health care exchange, Cover Oregon.
The Republican primary will be held Tuesday, and it appears to be a two-person race between Dr. Monica Wehby and Jason Conger, two candidates with compelling personal stories who are quite different on social issues.
Wehby is a pediatric neurosurgeon with 30 years in the business of saving young lives. She was the first woman to graduate from UCLAs neurosurgery program. But her claim to fame in this race, and a big reason why shes getting support from influential Republicans nationally, is she was an early critic of ObamaCare. She was on the board of the American Medical Association and was featured in a 2009 ad opposing the Affordable Care Act.
Its a 2,700 page law, 20,000 pages of regulations now -- its impossible to work with this law, Wehby said. I think the best way is to repeal and replace with a plan that will actually work.
Conger is a two-term representative in the Oregon State House. Hes also a practicing lawyer. While that might not seem so unusual, Congers path to the legal profession was anything but ordinary. His mother abandoned the family when he was young. So he lived with his father, often staying in trailer parks, and for stretches was homeless, sleeping in the back of his family truck.
From those humble beginnings in northern California, he graduated from Harvard Law School.
I feel extraordinarily blessed to have been able to go from barely graduating from an alternative high school to graduating from Harvard Law School and living what I would consider the American dream, Conger said.
Dr. Wehby has been endorsed by GOP heavyweights like Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Dr. Ben Carson. She also received a major boost in the form of a $400,000 advertising campaign funded by the New Republican super PAC. Founded by Alex Castellanos, New Republican is attempting to pull the party more to the center. The groups ads highlight Wehbys credibility on ObamaCare, her sensitivity to issues important to women and her own professional background -- including a spot titled "Trust," which features the mother of a child whose life she saved with surgery many years ago.
Conger has raised far less money, and polls suggest hes trailing. But he does have plenty of support, especially from social conservatives. Oregon Right to Life endorsed his candidacy and former presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently endorsed him in a radio ad. Conger also has wide support among Republican lawmakers in Oregon. He is strong on the Second Amendment, is staunchly pro-life and opposes gay marriage.
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FILE - In this May 21, 2013, file photo, Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., speaks to the reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Republicans hoping to ride Benghazi to a November sweep of midterm elections have entrusted a seven-member team, including Roby, with "getting to the truth," in the words of House Speaker John Boehner, on whether the Obama administration misled Americans about the deadly attack. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)The Associated Press
FILE - This June 18, 2013 file photo shows Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans hoping to ride Benghazi to a November sweep of midterm elections have entrusted a seven-member team, including Westmoreland, with "getting to the truth," in the words of House Speaker John Boehner, on whether the Obama administration misled Americans about the deadly attack. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)The Associated Press
FILE - This June 18, 2013 file photo shows Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans hoping to ride Benghazi to a November sweep of midterm elections have entrusted a seven-member team, including Pompeo, with "getting to the truth," in the words of House Speaker John Boehner, on whether the Obama administration misled Americans about the deadly attack.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)The Associated Press
FILE - This Feb. 6, 2014, file photo shows Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill in Washington.Republicans hoping to ride Benghazi to a November sweep of midterm elections have entrusted a seven-member team, including Jordan, with "getting to the truth," in the words of House Speaker John Boehner, on whether the Obama administration misled Americans about the deadly attack.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)The Associated Press
FILE - This May 6, 2014 file photo shows Rep. Susan Brooks, R-Ind., leaving after casting her vote in Carmel, Ind. Republicans hoping to ride Benghazi to a November sweep of midterm elections have entrusted a seven-member team, including Gowdy, with "getting to the truth," in the words of House Speaker John Boehner, on whether the Obama administration misled Americans about the deadly attack. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Republicans hoping to ride their Benghazi investigation to a November election sweep have entrusted a seven-member team with "getting to the truth," in the words of House Speaker John Boehner, about whether the Obama administration misled Americans about the deadly attack in Libya.
They insist the investigation isn't political.
But several GOP members of the new House Select Committee on Benghazi have made claims about administration wrongdoing. Some have participated in previous investigations into how the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were killed on Sept. 11, 2012, and how the administration responded.
Democrats have yet to say if they'll participate in what will be the eighth investigation since the attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in the eastern Libyan city.
Republicans say they need to find out why security was insufficient, what the president did the night of the attack, why the U.S. military didn't intervene, why initial explanations focused on a protest over a YouTube video and whether the administration deliberately sought to hide evidence about its conduct.
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The most important battle in politics today is the one within the Republican Party, and the tea party movement didnt start it. The GOPs civil war began in 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt made progressivism the governing philosophy of the Republican establishment.
For the 102 years since, the conflict has been between limited-government constitutional conservatives and the proponents of big government and the big spending that goes with it.
It has been waged with conservative Republicans, such as Sens. Robert A. Taft, Barry Goldwater and Jesse Helms, on one side, and big-government Republicans, such as Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, on the other.
Many thought, wrongly, that the conservatives won with the election of Ronald Reagan and his coalition of economic, national defense and social conservatives. But todays Republican establishment frequently invokes President Reagan while also pursuing a progressive agenda at odds with his principles. Big-government Republicans today include Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus.
Make no mistake, the establishment GOP is not the political home of conservatives.
To understand todays battles, and the rise of the tea party movement, one must understand that the tea party is as much or more a rebellion against the entrenched leadership of the Republican Party as it is a reaction to specific policies of President Barack Obama. Conservatives have learned that establishment Republican leaders are not merely incapable of stopping the progressive agenda but have been complicit in its expansion. GOP leaders have talked a good game when they are up for election, but they all too often vote for, or refuse to fight, the funding of most big-government programs.
The lesson for conservatives? We have been pointing our political guns at the wrong target.
Conservatives are not going to get to the political Promised Land and be able to govern America according to conservative principles until flawed, big-government Republican leaders are replaced with constitutional conservatives. And the people are with us. For example, Gallup reports that 72 percent of respondents to a 2013 poll said that big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question.
The place to stop the progressive agenda is first within the GOP. Conservatives have finally come to realize that the fate of the presidents agenda for his final two years will actually be decided in Republican primaries. The Obama agendas fate lies with conservatives such as Sens. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, and Reps. Tom McClintock, Justin Amash and Tim Huelskamp, who have defeated Republicans of a progressive bent in the primaries and gone on to win general elections.
We are already seeing an alliance of big-government interests, such as the Republican Main Street Partnership, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, joining forces to tilt upcoming Republican primaries in favor of big-government GOP candidates. Long-term, this alliance can be devastating to Republican political prospects.
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