<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>SwamplandCategory: Republican Party &#124; Swampland &#124; TIME.com</title>
	<atom:link href="http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://swampland.time.com</link>
	<description>Political insight from the Beltway and beyond</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:45:56 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='swampland.time.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/11d9978cfec7d5a71822113fdc067df5?s=96&#038;d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>SwamplandCategory: Republican Party &#124; Swampland &#124; TIME.com</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://swampland.time.com/osd.xml" title="Swampland" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://swampland.time.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>Michele Bachmann&#8217;s Political Swan Song</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/29/michele-bachmanns-political-swan-song/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/29/michele-bachmanns-political-swan-song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=96621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann’s swift rise and bruising fall tracked the fortunes of the Tea Party movement she helped inspire. Her punchy stem-winders against Barack Obama made her a cable-news celebrity, a fundraising powerhouse and, briefly, an insurgent contender in the 2012 GOP presidential primary. But by the time Bachmann announced early Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth Congressional term in 2014, she had also become something of a punchline. She was a gifted provocateur but an indifferent legislator. Her penchant for incendiary rhetoric — which often shaded into outright misinformation — incensed Democrats and alienated many fellow Republicans. A former tax lawyer first elected in 2006, Bachmann, 57, practiced politics as infotainment, using her perch in Congress to bludgeon her opponents with a freewheeling style that made her a favorite of the Tea Party grassroots. A conservative firebrand, she fashioned herself as one of the leading critics of the President&#8217;s health-care law and an unrestrained federal government. She helped to form the Tea Party Caucus, and surfed the movement&#8217;s rise from the back benches of the House to national celebrity. Bachmann attacked her targets without much care for accuracy; at times her penchant for hyperbole helped keep the political fact-checking industry afloat. (Her file at PolitiFact, which rated just 15% of Bachmann&#8217;s statements it assessed to be true or mostly true, is a trip through the fever swamps of conservative paranoia. In a send-off that seemed tinged with genuine regret, the Washington Post&#8216;s Glenn Kessler called her &#8220;a fact-checker&#8217;s dream.&#8221;) This approach helped fuel her victory in the 2011 Iowa straw poll, which briefly vaulted her into the top echelon of the GOP presidential contenders. But Bachmann&#8217;s campaign unraveled quickly, hampered by internal strife, mismanagement and a flawed candidate prone to misstatements. She exited the race after plunging to sixth in the state&#8217;s first-in-the-nation caucuses, with just 5% of the vote. In November, Iowa&#8217;s Republican governor pointed to her victory at Ames to make the case that the non-binding beauty contest had &#8220;outlived its usefulness.&#8221; Bachmann&#8217;s decision to bow out<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96621&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/29/michele-bachmanns-political-swan-song/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/168871298.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/168871298.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/168871298.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Michele Bachmann after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2013.</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/41a5f1af68b9fd647df540c67f1a464a?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Alex Altman</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>GOP Ponders How to Capitalize on Obama&#8217;s Woes</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/20/gop-ponders-how-to-capitalize-on-obamas-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/20/gop-ponders-how-to-capitalize-on-obamas-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / CHARLES BABINGTON</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=96036</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It&#8217;s not clear, however, how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats&#8217; woes, legislatively or politically. Last November&#8217;s election dynamics complicate the picture on both fronts. Republican leaders are urging a bit of restraint in exploiting the White House&#8217;s new weaknesses. (MORE: Amid Scandals, White House Sends Out a New Message Point Man) Legislatively one of Obama&#8217;s biggest second-term goals is to overhaul the nation&#8217;s immigration laws, including a new pathway to citizenship for millions of people living here illegally. Many Republicans would like to deny him such a legacy-enhancing prize. But GOP strategists say their party may need &#8220;immigration reform&#8221; more than Democrats do. Hispanic voters overwhelmingly backed Obama in both his elections. The troubling trend for Republicans might worsen if they don&#8217;t show greater interest in Latinos&#8217; concerns. For many, that includes major changes to immigration laws. &#8220;There&#8217;s a political concern that we need to heal our rift with the Hispanic community,&#8221; said Kirby Wilbur, the Republican Party chairman in Washington state. He said, however, he&#8217;s not sure it&#8217;s necessary to offer citizenship for people who came here illegally. That&#8217;s precisely the kind of view that makes immigration difficult for Republicans. On other political fronts, the White House&#8217;s scandal problems offer a fat, easy target. Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday ripped into the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service. He apologized for the agency&#8217;s heightened scrutiny of tea party affiliates and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Republicans have been equally indignant in ongoing inquiries into the administration&#8217;s role in last September&#8217;s terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four U.S. officials. The third controversy now dogging the White House &#8212; the Justice Department&#8217;s secret seizure of Associated Press phone records in a security leak investigation &#8212; has thus far stirred less emotion and partisanship on Capitol Hill. Taken together, Republicans say, these three controversies portray a rapaciously political<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96036&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/20/gop-ponders-how-to-capitalize-on-obamas-woes/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link>
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cbef58d71daefb9ddab6c6b20018290c?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">timeassociatedpress</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>GOP Fights to Rebrand the Party of No</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/15/gop-fights-to-rebrand-the-party-of-no/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/15/gop-fights-to-rebrand-the-party-of-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke Miller/ Hollywood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=92850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After several days of debating how to restore their party’s brand, Republican leaders left a party confab in Los Angeles last week in agreement that they can no longer be “the party of no.” But they were less clear on what to say “yes” to. “To win, we need to be the party of solutions,” says Nebraska GOP chairman JL Spray. Now that Republicans have pointed out problems on issues like immigration, student loans, and the budget, he adds: “Let’s start fixing some things.” While GOP officials at the party’s spring meeting in Hollywood had plenty of ideas for changing their public rhetoric, however, positive new policy ideas were in shorter supply. The gathering’s purpose, said RNC officials who recently released a much-publicized autopsy of the 2012 election, was largely to begin reshaping negative perceptions of the GOP. At the meeting, the Republican National Committee’s 168 members sat through upbeat sessions with titles like “How to say what we mean and show that we care,” and “Winning the Women’s vote.” (MORE: GOP Rank And File Fight Back Against Party Elite In Hollywood) Those sessions were all the more important, Republicans say, because party officials keep making the wrong kinds of headlines. In the past month, Republican officials repudiated Alask Rep. Don Young for using the slur “wetback,” and Michigan national committeeman Dave Agema for posting on Facebook a story that decries “filthy” homosexuals. “The lack of relationships in these communities is getting in the way of us talking about the issues,” said one RNC official here this week. Hoping to turn the page, in recent months top GOP lawmakers like House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senator Marco Rubio have given major speeches on what the GOP calls its “opportunity agenda” — tackling education reform, college affordability, and endemic poverty. Last week, Senator Rand Paul visited historically black Howard University to contest the image of Republicans as insensitive towards minorities. So far, though, those speeches haven’t turned into legislative priorities. Of late Republicans have mostly debated the impact of the budget<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=92850&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/15/gop-fights-to-rebrand-the-party-of-no/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/rtr3f1te.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/rtr3f1te.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/rtr3f1te.jpg?w=200" medium="image" />

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/b456c5209a547a000e0b869f3333aa77?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">zekemiller</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>GOP Rank And File Fight Back Against Party Elite In Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/11/gop-rank-and-file-fight-back-against-party-elite-in-hollywood/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/11/gop-rank-and-file-fight-back-against-party-elite-in-hollywood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=92647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Licking their wounds after a 2012 election defeat, Republicans are meeting in California this week to reassess their internal party rules. But infighting erupted on day one between grassroots and establishment forces over proposed party reforms. An early vote at the Republican National Committee&#8217;s annual meeting, held in the unlikely liberal bastion of Hollywood, shot down a party rules provision seeking to make the GOP presidential nominating process more transparent. The GOP&#8217;s rules committee voted 31-20 against a requirement that state party caucuses and primaries bind their delegates to support specific presidential candidates at the party&#8217;s national convention. The measure was crafted by party officials largely in response to the 2012 takeover of several state delegations by supporters of Ron Paul. Paul supporters and other grassroots party activists had booed loudly when the change was announced at last summer&#8217;s party convention with the backing of top Romney campaign lawyer, Ben Ginsberg. But it is key to the nominating calendar reforms in the party’s official 2012 election autopsy, formally known at the Growth and Opportunity Project. The repeal of the delegate binding provision is expected to fail in a vote by the full party committee tomorrow. But the narrow issue became a proxy for a larger argument over the Growth and Opportunity Project, and charges from party foot soldiers that the document represents an effort by establishment insiders to centralize control at their expense. Although a Los Angeles Times cartoonist imagined conservatives here tossing rotten eggs at the Hollywood homes of Rob Reiner and Sean Penn, on Wednesday the eggs were flying within the Loews Hollywood hotel. The vote on convention delegates followed hours of debate over a broader rules package adopted at last summer&#8217;s convention that has angered rank and file social conservatives and libertarians. An effort pushed by conservative, anti-establishment advocate Morton Blackwell — who has attended every convention since 1964 — to repeal all of the convention changes went down. But that only strengthened the effort for a targeted assault on the caucus rule change. The contentious debate and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=92647&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/11/gop-rank-and-file-fight-back-against-party-elite-in-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ap398087913192.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ap398087913192.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ap398087913192.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Reince Priebus</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/b456c5209a547a000e0b869f3333aa77?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">zekemiller</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>In Kentucky, Rand Paul Demonstrates the Art of the Sale</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/29/in-kentucky-rand-paul-demonstrates-the-art-of-the-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/29/in-kentucky-rand-paul-demonstrates-the-art-of-the-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=91518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lexington, Kentucky In some ways you can look at Rand Paul and see his dad. The Kentucky Senator gives similarly genre-bending stump speeches that bounce from Austrian economics to the problem with foreign aid, from the perils of government to the pleasures of unfettered capitalism. But if you listen closely there are important differences between the two men, even though the policies are largely the same. Ron Paul had a mystifying knack for whipping college-age audiences into a frenzy with dry observations about, say, raw milk or Austrian economics. He won a fervent following partly because he didn&#8217;t much care about winning anything. His son has a different talent. In a few short years in Washington, Rand &#8212; who came of age on the libertarian fringe and ran under the Tea Party banner &#8212; has become a skillful political salesman, with a feel for marketing his views to match his audience. The genteel crowd gathered in a Lexington hotel Wednesday to hear Rand Paul address the Women Republicans of Central Kentucky was the type of crowd likely to blanch at his father&#8217;s views on cutting foreign aid, shrinking America&#8217;s military footprint or legalizing marijuana. But for Rand, they offered a warm welcome. Fresh off a month that included his electrifying filibuster challenging President Obama&#8217;s targeted killing policies, a straw poll victory at this month&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and his recent speech unexpecedtly urging work permits and legal status for immigrants, Paul was greeted like a conquering hero. “That historic filibuster encouraged everyone that there’s still a chance to save America,&#8221; gushed Paul&#8217;s introducer. Paul&#8217;s speech was a blend of small-government dogma, practical truth-telling (Obamacare is here indefinitely) and pure red meat: The terrorist assault in Benghazi, he said, exposed Hillary Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;errors in leadership that really should preclude her from ever holding high office again.&#8221; But it was mainly notable for the skillful way he softened his more controversial views for an audience who members have probably never heard of Guy Fawkes Day . Like his father, Paul opposes foreign aid,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=91518&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/29/in-kentucky-rand-paul-demonstrates-the-art-of-the-sale/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/164065953.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/164065953.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/164065953.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Senate Leaders Speak To Press After Weekly Policy Luncheon</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/41a5f1af68b9fd647df540c67f1a464a?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Alex Altman</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Gentlemen from Kentucky: Inside the Partnership of Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/26/the-gentlemen-from-kentucky-inside-the-partnership-of-rand-paul-and-mitch-mcconnell/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/26/the-gentlemen-from-kentucky-inside-the-partnership-of-rand-paul-and-mitch-mcconnell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=91210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell was watching a basketball game on TV at around 10 p.m. on March 6 when he flipped the channel to C-Span for an update from the Senate floor. At 11:47 that morning, McConnell&#8217;s Kentucky compatriot, Republican Senator Rand Paul, had launched an old-school filibuster to protest Barack Obama&#8216;s nomination of counterterrorism official John Brennan as CIA chief. The soliloquy exploded across cable news and ricocheted around the echo chamber of Twitter. But 10 hours of holding forth had taken its toll, and now Paul was flagging. So McConnell slipped on a suit and headed back to the Capitol, where he took a turn spelling his junior colleague and praising Paul for &#8220;his tenacity and for his conviction.&#8221; By the time Paul finally ceded the floor after midnight, he had become the Republican Party&#8217;s man of the moment. Libertarians lit up message boards with praise, heralding his principled stand. GOP message mavens marveled at his ability to wring every drop of publicity out of the event. Pundits began mentioning Paul&#8217;s name as a top-tier presidential candidate. Ten days later he won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference. It took 13 hours of rhetoric on behalf of a doomed cause (Brennan was confirmed in a bipartisan vote hours later) to cement Paul&#8217;s transformation from Tea Party bomb-thrower to ascendant force within the party. (MORE: Rand Paul Embraces Immigration Reform) When he burst onto the political scene three years ago, few people expected Paul to become a savvy practitioner of the inside game. But since entering the Senate, he has soaked up the ways of Washington, learning to leverage Senate procedure and to channel ideas into influence. Behind the scenes, one of the key figures in his heady climb has been McConnell, the master tactician who tried to kill Paul&#8217;s political career before it began. Their improbable partnership has become one of the most important within the Republican Party, providing Paul the seasoning and connections he needs to broaden his coalition and offering McConnell political<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=91210&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/26/the-gentlemen-from-kentucky-inside-the-partnership-of-rand-paul-and-mitch-mcconnell/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/ap11082513256.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/ap11082513256.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/ap11082513256.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/41a5f1af68b9fd647df540c67f1a464a?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Alex Altman</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why Republicans Are Saying &#8216;I Do&#8217; to Gay Marriage</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/21/why-republicans-are-saying-i-do-to-gay-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/21/why-republicans-are-saying-i-do-to-gay-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=91055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Will the next Republican nominee for President support gay marriage? It is a question that was unthinkable years ago, but amid a rapid shift in public opinion and demographics, it is being seriously considered in GOP circles. “At the rate this issue is changing within the party, I think it&#8217;s not out of the question,” said Margaret Hoover, a former George W. Bush White House aide and one of the leading Republican Party operatives calling for the recognition of same-sex marriages. “It’s not if, it’s when — 2016 or 2020,” said another Republican operative. The confidence to even ask the question is buoyed by a sea change in Republican Party thinking on the issue over the past several weeks. Dozens of top party operatives and former politicians — including six former aides to Mitt Romney and seven current or former members of Congress — have signed onto an amicus brief supporting the legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8 in advance of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the gay-marriage ban. Ohio Senator Rob Portman endorsed gay marriage on Friday after revealing that his son is gay. And new polling has brought to light a clear shift in the opinions of Republicans and the nation at large. Indeed, that was one of the key recommendations in the Republican Party’s 2012 autopsy: a critical need to soften the party’s position on gay marriage, which has become a threshold issue for many young voters. On Monday, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus supported Portman’s decision to change his mind on gay marriage when asked how the party will try to reach out to gays and young voters into the fold, saying it was no different than embracing the so-called Liberty movement championed by Senator Rand Paul. “I think Senator Portman made some pretty big inroads last week,” Priebus told reporters. “I think it&#8217;s about being decent. I think it&#8217;s about dignity and respect, that nobody deserves to have their dignity diminished, or people don&#8217;t deserve to be disrespected. I think that there isn&#8217;t anyone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=91055&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/21/why-republicans-are-saying-i-do-to-gay-marriage/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Gay Marriage</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/domestic-policy-2/gay-marriage-domestic-policy/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/158606492-1.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/158606492-1.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/158606492-1.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">House Republicans Call Off To Vote On Boehner&#039;s &#34;Plan B&#34; Fiscal Cliff Plan</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/b456c5209a547a000e0b869f3333aa77?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">zekemiller</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Consultants in Conservative Crosshairs As GOP Brass Calls For Reforms</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/18/consultants-in-conservative-crosshairs-as-gop-brass-calls-for-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/18/consultants-in-conservative-crosshairs-as-gop-brass-calls-for-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CPAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=90698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s no coincidence that Karl Rove has become the man conservatives love to hate at the very moment that Republican political consultants are trying to reform the GOP. At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend, Rove and his consultant colleagues were roundly criticized by more conservative Republicans for meddling in primaries and losing elections — and for getting rich doing so. The anti-consultant turn is one facet of the broader party schism that was on stark display at CPAC, where a mainstream Republican like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and even conservative Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell were not invited, while Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian Kentucky Senator took first place in the conference’s straw poll. The roots of the Rove hatred date to the first term of George W. Bush: Grassroots activists blame Rove for the explosion in public spending in Bush’s first; they blame him for party collapse in 2006. Now the base blames him for the 2012 debacle, as well. Indeed the latest outbreak in the civil war inside the GOP between its conservative base and its veteran party operatives came days before GOP leaders were to release a new round of reforms designed to modernize the party after its 2012 defeat, and among other things, reduce the influence of mostly conservative fringe factions have in choosing the party&#8217;s eventual nominee. The report, called the “Growth and Opportunity Project,” recommended the swift implementation of comprehensive immigration reform and a more tolerant approach to those who disagree with the official stance on gay marriage and women’s issues. Additionally, a shorter primary calendar with fewer debates is being considered, benefiting wealthier, and thus usually establishment, candidates. (The report also included a nod to dealing with the vast sums collected by campaign consultants, calling for a move to incentive-based pay as opposed to the standard percentage of spending.) At CPAC, the right wing’s dislike of Washington’s consultant class and it’s entrenched power may have been given special by a well-attended panel on the first day of the conference titled<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90698&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/18/consultants-in-conservative-crosshairs-as-gop-brass-calls-for-reforms/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/600_150866728.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/600_150866728.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/600_150866728.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Karl Rove at RNC on August 28, 2012.</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/b456c5209a547a000e0b869f3333aa77?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">zekemiller</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/rtr3f2zb.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Sarah Palin</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Committee to Save the GOP: Pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Become Inclusive to Gays or Keep Losing</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/18/committee-to-the-save-the-gop-pass-comprehensive-immigration-reform-become-inclusive-to-gays-or-keep-losing/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/18/committee-to-the-save-the-gop-pass-comprehensive-immigration-reform-become-inclusive-to-gays-or-keep-losing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=90652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republican National Committee’s Growth and Opportunity Project, formed last year to analyze the party’s 2012 electoral defeat and plot a path forward, is recommending softening some of the party’s conservative positions — or at least how it communicates them. “Our party knows how to appeal to older voters, but we have lost our way with younger ones,” the report concludes, raising alarm for the longevity of the Grand Old Party. “We sound increasingly out of touch.” The report, to be released at a press conference Monday morning at the National Press Club and distributed to reporters late Sunday for review, calls for the quick passage of comprehensive immigration-reform legislation and a softer tone on gay issues. It was prepared by five veteran party operatives, including former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, Florida operative Sally Bradshaw and Mississippi National Committeeman Henry Barbour. More than anything, it is a rejection of the politics of “arithmetic,” as RNC chairman Reince Priebus will say when he announces the report’s recommendations in a thinly veiled shot at Mitt Romney’s 47% comments. “The RNC cannot and will not &#8230; write off any demographic, community or region of this country.” “We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform,” the report states. “If we do not, our party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only &#8230; If Hispanic Americans perceive that a GOP nominee or candidate does not want them in the United States (i.e., self-deportation), they will not pay attention to our next sentence.” And while it does not call for a party reversal to back allowing gay marriages, the document warns that hard-line stances are hurting Republicans with younger voters, who cast ballots overwhelmingly for Obama in the 2012 election. “For the GOP to appeal to younger voters, we do not have to agree on every issue, but we do need to make sure young people do not see the party as totally intolerant of alternative points of view,” the report states. “Already, there is a generational difference within the conservative movement<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90652&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/18/committee-to-the-save-the-gop-pass-comprehensive-immigration-reform-become-inclusive-to-gays-or-keep-losing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/preibus.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/preibus.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/preibus.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Priebus</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/b456c5209a547a000e0b869f3333aa77?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">zekemiller</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>RNC Searches Silicon Valley For CTO</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/12/rnc-searches-silicon-valley-for-cto/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/12/rnc-searches-silicon-valley-for-cto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=90252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republican National Committee is taking a page out of President Barack Obama’s re-election playbook, looking to Silicon Valley to find a technological guru to reinvent the Party’s digital efforts. Even before the official review of its 2012 failures was in, Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus visited the nation’s technology mecca earlier this year to learn more about integrating technology into all aspects of the Grand Old Party after Obama’s crack team trounced Mitt Romney’s efforts on the web. A group of top operatives and officials will release their complete examination of what the party did wrong on Monday in Washington. Implementing the recommendations of the review, the Party is also looking to hire a Chief Technology Officer from Silicon Valley or the “private data world” by May 1 to begin the process of bringing the party up to speed by the 2016 presidential race. “We’re committed to doing what no other party committee has done by restructuring our data and digital teams to be the central focus of the RNC and integrated into everything we do,&#8221; Priebus said in a statement to TIME. &#8220;We need to change how we are communicating with every community across America and this is a big step in that direction.” According to a Party spokesperson, one responsibility of the Republican CTO will be to “develop digital campaign colleges in ‘high tech’ cities” to build relationships between the party and the technology industry. In 2011, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina met with executives of some of the nation’s leading tech firms both to recruit talent and to learn best-practices of modeling a campaign after a tech start-up — with detail including seating strategies and the best flooring to promote collaboration. The Republican effort doesn’t appear to be as all-encompassing, but is seen internally as the first step toward recovering from their defeat. The full list of technological priorities from the RNC: Recruit and hire chief technology and digital officer before May 1st to fundamentally change the role of digital, technology and data at the party committee level Task this<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90252&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/12/rnc-searches-silicon-valley-for-cto/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/155684845.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/155684845.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/155684845.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Election Night</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/b456c5209a547a000e0b869f3333aa77?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">zekemiller</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>GOProud Founder Mulls Senate Bid in South Carolina</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/12/goproud-founder-mulls-senate-bid-in-south-carolina/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/12/goproud-founder-mulls-senate-bid-in-south-carolina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=90148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Carroll, a founder of the gay Republican group GOProud and the popular blog Gay Patriot, announced Monday that he will resign his position at GOProud to consider a 2014 primary challenge to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Carroll announced his decision in an open letter to South Carolina voters, Gay Patriot Readers and GOProud members. &#8221;If I believe I could provide a serious alternative to Senator Graham for the voters of South Carolina, and I can find the financial and moral support to join me in that effort, then I will take those next formal steps needed to do so,&#8221; wrote Carroll, who would be the first openly gay Republican Senator. Carroll&#8217;s potential candidacy drew quick support from some Palmetto State conservatives who are eager to see Graham face a primary challenge. &#8220;Bruce is a true conservative,&#8221; said Joanne Jones, vice chairman of the Charleston Tea Party. But with low name recognition, Caroll may struggle to drum up the bankroll to challenge Graham, 57, in a socially conservative state. Gay Patriot.net Bruce Carroll &#8220;I live, eat, and breath South Carolina politics, and I have never heard his name before in my life,&#8221; Katon Dawson, the chairman of the South Carolina GOP from 2002 to 2009, told TIME. While some conservatives were upset by Graham&#8217;s opposition to Senator Rand Paul’s filibuster over the legality of killing Americans via drone, the incident is &#8220;a stub of a toe from which he will recover,&#8221; says Warren Tompkins, a former Graham consultant in South Carolina who advised the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and George W. Bush. Carroll told RedState that Graham&#8217;s defense of drone attacks proved &#8220;Sen. Graham has lost touch with his state.&#8221; Graham has around $4.4 million on hand, and in late February Winthrop University published a poll that showed Graham with an approval rating of 71% among Republicans, and 57% among all registered voters. Carroll&#8217;s victory would be historic for a party that largely opposes same-sex marriage (69% to 23% according to a recent poll), but Graham&#8217;s stature and support in the state will make him tough to beat.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90148&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/12/goproud-founder-mulls-senate-bid-in-south-carolina/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/rtr3envz.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/rtr3envz.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/rtr3envz.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham addresses a news conference about proposed gun violence legislation in Washington</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/509f545dfcf07266c1eb847a42170416?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">drogers1271</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/officialphoto1-225x300.jpg?w=150" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Bruce Carroll Tea Party</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Grand Elderly Party</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/05/grand-elderly-party/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/05/grand-elderly-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=89659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hand-wringing about the future of the Republican party proceeds apace. I tend to agree with Frank Rich, who argues that all this talk of rebranding and rethinking is more a marketing exercise than a soul-search, and that the party will be trapped by the Limbaugh minority until a critical mass of Republican leaders stand up to the wingnut horde. But that doesn&#8217;t mean there isn&#8217;t some interesting and substantial thinking about policy going on within the GOP. The best thinking is being done by young conservatives like Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam&#8211;who, for example and for years, have been promoting the idea that Republicans should accept the need for universal health coverage and other heresies. They are joined this month by two members of the Republican intellectual establishment (and the Bush 43 White House), Mike Gerson and Pete Wehner, who&#8217;ve written a smart piece in this month&#8217;s Commentary about policy changes the party should make. I&#8217;ve had my differences with Wehner in the past, to say the least, especially when he&#8217;s in electoral henchman mode, and I&#8217;m sure I have plenty of policy differences with him and Gerson now. But they&#8217;ve taken some interesting and courageous steps here that are worth noting. The most important suggestions, to my mind, are in the area of financial and tax reform. They favor &#8221;the end of corporate welfare as we know it.&#8221; This is a wistful nod toward Bill Clinton&#8216;s proposal to put work requirements and time limits on welfare&#8211;but it is a smart analogy: They propose that Republicans divorce themselves from the culture of corporatism, just as Clinton separated himself from the culture of dependency. They also favor breaking up the five largest banks, which control assets equal to 60% of GDP, a &#8221;moral hazard&#8221; if ever one existed. (I continue to believe that if Mitt Romney&#8211;still clueless, from the look of his re-emergence this week&#8211;had gone with this form of financial reform, he might have won the election. And I continue to be disappointed by the hold Wall Street still<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89659&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/05/grand-elderly-party/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link>
		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/82d9b09d6bf4a8d7cc755c73ad7a3ae5?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">jklein1271</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Republican Consultants Plot New Tech-Savvy Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/04/republican-consultants-plot-new-tech-savvy-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/04/republican-consultants-plot-new-tech-savvy-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=89539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Correction Appended March 4, 2013 After last year’s blowout election, the Republican digital strategist Patrick Ruffini went on a not-so-secret mission to find out how to fix what was wrong with his party. “In less than 12 hours, the #infiltration begins,” he tweeted, the day before the start of RootsCamp, an annual conference for Democratic digital, data and grassroots strategists that is held by a liberal non-profit group called the New Organizing Institute. What he found at the event came as a sort of revelation: A vast liberal brain trust bursting with young talent who had advanced far beyond Republicans in the art and science of using data, analytics and voter outreach. He live-tweeted his observations, and then began meeting with other young strategists in his party, like Katie Harbath, who handles Republican campaign outreach for Facebook, Kristen Soltis Anderson, a pollster at the Winston Group, and Reihan Salam, a political columnist for the National Review. (MORE: Viewpoint: The GOP Searches for a New Strategy — in All the Wrong Places) They decided that the conservative movement simply did not have what liberals did: An infrastructure to train and nurture the next generation of campaign operatives and develop cutting-edge techniques. So they decided to take a shot at filling the void, by developing a proposal for a suite of new outside groups that would mimic, and eventually outpace, Democratic efforts. “We are not going to start a single group that is going to solve all the problems,” said Ruffini, a former eCampaign director for the Republican National Committee who is now president of the consulting firm Engage. “What it is going to involve is an ecosystem.” The first part of that ecosystem, for which incorporation papers were filed last week, will be called the Empower Action Group. It is envisioned as a conservative answer to the New Organizing Institute, a place for training and connecting young conservative talent. It will aim to increase the ranks of people with digital, data and organizing know-how working for the GOP. “We are just<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89539&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/04/republican-consultants-plot-new-tech-savvy-infrastructure/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/141095275.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/141095275.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/141095275.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Mitt Romney for President Headquarters phone bank</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/a467a0981ef8e059913a0aa44ba7df1b?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">michaelscherer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Party, Heal Thyself</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2137407-1,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2137407-1,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Wehner </dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viewpoint]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=89349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89349&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2137407-1,00.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Magazine</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/magazine/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/360_cwehner_0311.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/360_cwehner_0311.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/360_cwehner_0311.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">G.O.P./Republican</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/509f545dfcf07266c1eb847a42170416?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">drogers1271</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Day in the Life of the Republican Party’s Search for Newness</title>
		<link>http://thepage.time.com/2013/02/26/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-republican-partys-search-for-newness/</link>
		<comments>http://thepage.time.com/2013/02/26/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-republican-partys-search-for-newness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Halperin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=89050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Losing a presidential election can focus the collective mind, but the individual minds involved can have minds of their own. As the Republican Party debates in public and in private what has to change, here are Tuesday’s tea leaves: A. In the internal divisions over how to handle the end of the endgame on the sequester PR fight, the GOP is oh-so divided on what kind of legislation to offer.  Lindsey Graham and a few others are suddenly born-again tax raisers. John McCain is affronted by the notion of turning spending decisions fully over to the President.  And there remains a deep, subterranean fear that the White House would win the hearts-and-mind battle (big) if the current cuts kick in. B. There’s a brand new list of Republican bigwigs who support gay marriage. The fact that there won’t be much backlash to this announcement (as compared to what would have ensued not that many years ago) speaks volumes. C. The story of Chris Christie not being invited to speak at CPAC is reverberating on cable and the Internet. There will be more reporting on WHY he wasn’t invited, to be sure, but what is clear is that this is good for Christie — a freebie Sister Souljah moment that will help him with the media (as if he needs more of that!) and with Republicans who think they need to make a cleaner break with some of the party’s constituency groups.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89050&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thepage.time.com/2013/02/26/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-republican-partys-search-for-newness/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mccain-and-graham.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mccain-and-graham.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mccain-and-graham.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">U.S. Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/509f545dfcf07266c1eb847a42170416?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">drogers1271</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Visiting Republicans and the Sequester</title>
		<link>http://thepage.time.com/2013/02/25/the-visiting-republicans-and-the-sequester/</link>
		<comments>http://thepage.time.com/2013/02/25/the-visiting-republicans-and-the-sequester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Halperin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=88975</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Republican governors and their Democratic counterparts in Washington for their annual meetings, the GOP is benefiting from a bevy of camera-ready, energetic national spokespeople to help carry the fight to the White House on sequestration. Governors such as Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker, and Nikki Haley can draw the kinds of microphones, cameras, laptops, and tweets that the party’s Capitol Hill leaders do not always attract these days. That means Republicans are getting additional ballast behind their side of the argument at a time of intense and high-profile partisan conflict.  The opposition governors are making the same basic case that their congressional allies have pushed: Obama is too political; Obama is no longer hiding his desire to raise taxes at every turn; Obama isn’t serious about spending cuts; Obama is engaging in scare tactics. Republicans are asserting that the sequester’s pattern of cuts are undesirable but better than nothing — and it seems to the governors that the level of cuts required by current law should be achievable by restraining spending in other areas. “I could not be more frustrated than I am right now,” Haley told a group of reporters across the street from the White House on Monday afternoon at a press conference just after the National Governors Association members met with President Obama. While she trained her invective on Washington writ large, she suggested that the President was showing a lack of leadership by, among other things, taking an out of town golf vacation in recent days, rather than focusing on trying to negotiate a solution.  To be sure, there is some expression of frustration by the governors at their congressional colleagues, but their main focus of criticism is Obama. The White House is now in the midst of a campaign to alarm voters about the real-world impact if the sequester cuts happen, including releasing late Sunday a series of state-specific documents showing where the slashed spending would hit. Walker took a shot at the administration by indicating that the White House effort was clearly more about public relations<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=88975&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thepage.time.com/2013/02/25/the-visiting-republicans-and-the-sequester/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/bobby-jindal.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/bobby-jindal.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/bobby-jindal.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal speaks after the National Governors Association meeting at the White House in Washington</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/509f545dfcf07266c1eb847a42170416?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">drogers1271</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Sequester and the GOP&#8217;s Wobbly &#8216;Stool&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/20/the-sequester-and-the-gops-wobbly-stool/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/20/the-sequester-and-the-gops-wobbly-stool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=88616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In many ways the showdown underway in Washington over the budget sequester is complicated and confusing. But on one level is it clarifying: It has revealed the supremacy of the Republican Party&#8217;s economic wing over its other key factions. For decades, Republicans have talked about their three-legged stool&#8211;the coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan that has defined their party ever since: economic conservatives, social conservatives and defense conservatives. The three groups have never worked in perfect harmony. But when there&#8217;s tension, it&#8217;s usually among social and economic conservatives. Heartland evangelicals and Wall Street financiers have precious little in common. Evangelical Republicans, for instance, had little love for an economy-first candidate like Mitt Romney. But their (last) favorite candidate, the intensely pro-life Rick Santorum, was ultimately steamrolled. George W. Bush labored to keep social conservatives on his side with issues like a gay marriage ban. But ultimately many evangelicals were disappointed with his presidency. Now comes the sequester, which has, for the first time since at least September 11, 2001, put the GOP&#8217;s defense and economic wings in conflict. With the sequester scheduled to inflict $46 billion in cuts to the Pentagon budget, President Obama has offered an alternative that would mitigate the cuts, in part, by raising taxes on the wealthy. But Republican leaders won&#8217;t swallow any new taxes or accept smaller cuts to the federal budget. And so, defense will get the budget ax. And national security conservatives, long accustomed to being granted virtually every wish by their party, find themselves appalled. Bill Kristol, a reliable spokesman for the GOP&#8217;s defense wing, calls the sequester &#8220;deeply irresponsible,&#8221; and a threat to national security (in part, he says, because it will force the military to keep one aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf instead of two). John McCain, who shares Kristol&#8217;s passion for defense, has hinted he might support closing tax loopholes to blunt the Pentagon cuts. But it appears that the likes of Kristol and McCain have lost out to economic conservatives, who insist that nothing&#8211;not even the defense budget&#8211;is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=88616&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/20/the-sequester-and-the-gops-wobbly-stool/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/reagan-elephant.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/reagan-elephant.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/reagan-elephant.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Reagan Republican Elephant</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/25edc643b57a776abbc75835c699af51?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">crowley100</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Up in Smoke: Why the GOP&#8217;s Views on Pot are Showing Signs of a Shift</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/14/up-in-smoke-why-the-gops-views-on-pot-are-showing-signs-of-a-shift/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/14/up-in-smoke-why-the-gops-views-on-pot-are-showing-signs-of-a-shift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=88041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ken Cuccinelli was in unfriendly territory when he stepped to the podium in a sloping auditorium at the University of Virginia on Feb. 6. A conservative icon in a hall crammed with college kids is a powder keg awaiting a spark, and cops had been summoned to defuse any eruptions. But the commonwealth&#8217;s attorney general disarmed his audience by citing the &#8220;fascinating experiment&#8221; underway in Colorado and Washington, states where voters legalized marijuana in landmark referendums last fall. &#8220;I&#8217;m not at all unhappy that they&#8217;re doing it,&#8221; he said, noting that his views on drug enforcement are &#8220;evolving.&#8221; It&#8217;s a perspective often voiced in late-night dorm-room discussions but rarely uttered by an ascendant Republican running for governor. Yet as the push to legalize pot migrates from the margins to the mainstream, it is mellowing some Republicans in the process. &#8220;If it was a secret ballot, the majority of Republicans would have voted to legalize marijuana a long time ago,&#8221; says GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who opposes the &#8220;monstrous&#8221; war on drugs. For years, conservatives&#8217; convictions have been trumped by the fear of being painted as soft on crime in a primary ad, he says. But now, &#8220;when the Republicans start wetting their finger and sticking it in the air, they&#8217;ve got to begin to realize that the wind is blowing in the opposite direction. (MORE: Pot Plans: Efforts Surge in Congress to Reform Marijuana Laws) Pot is having a political moment. The percentage of Americans who favor scrapping the 75-year-old federal prohibition on weed has doubled during the past decade to about 50% and is projected to keep climbing. The statistical guru Nate Silver has predicted the figure could hit 60% within the next 10 years. In addition to Colorado and Washington, where a majority of voters opted to outright legalize lighting up in November, 18 states plus the District of Columbia permit licensed medical marijuana dispensaries. Fifteen more have decriminalized possession. It&#8217;s unlikely these statutes could survive a collision with federal law, which is unlikely to change anytime soon. But<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=88041&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/14/up-in-smoke-why-the-gops-views-on-pot-are-showing-signs-of-a-shift/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/marijuana1.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/marijuana1.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/marijuana1.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">A worker touches a cannabis plant at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the city of Safed, Aug. 22, 2010.</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/41a5f1af68b9fd647df540c67f1a464a?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Alex Altman</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With the Republican Party?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/31/whats-wrong-with-the-republican-party/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/31/whats-wrong-with-the-republican-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gop]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=86577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve often banged my spoon on my high chair about the reality-defying extremism and chronic obstructionism and borderline surrealism of the modern Republican Party. Its journey to wackadoodleland is, in my view, the most important political story of the last two decades. In this week’s magazine, I have a column about the post-election GOP freakout, and how the party can adapt to an electorate that is getting less demographically Republican (more diverse, less rural, more educated, less evangelical) as well as less ideologically Republican (less hostile to gays, gun control, and government). The answer, I suggest, is not to try to change the electorate with voter-ID laws and Electoral College-rigging schemes. And it’s not what the party elites seem to think it is: These days, the party line is that Republicans need to change their approach to politics—message, tone, technology, strategy. They shouldn’t make repulsive comments about rape, question Obama’s birth certificate, brag about their unwillingness to compromise, or suggest that 47% of their fellow citizens are moochers. They should repair their relationship with data, so they won’t be flabbergasted when election night doesn’t ratify the predictions of their pundits. They need to use Skype, improve minority outreach, and stop behaving like crotchety reactionaries who scream “You lie!” during presidential speeches to Congress. Again, this is progress. But while it may be comforting to blame salesmanship rather than product, their salesmanship has been quite impressive. No, the main problem is the product. As I try to explain in the column, it’s outdated and it’s bogus. So how can the GOP fix it? Um…er…that’s another problem. &#160; For Michael Grunwald&#8217;s column in this week&#8217;s magazine, click here. MORE: Viewpoint: The GOP Searches for a New Strategy — in All the Wrong Places &#160; &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=86577&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/31/whats-wrong-with-the-republican-party/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/1500_cgrunwald0211_0211.jpg?w=200</featured_image>
		<media:thumbnail url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/1500_cgrunwald0211_0211.jpg?w=200" />
		<media:content url="http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/1500_cgrunwald0211_0211.jpg?w=200" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Road to Nowhere</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ddcaf430de0f1a59f27cc4ad614221d9?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">michaelgrunwald</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Second GOP, A Third Party or&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/29/a-second-gop-a-third-party-or/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/29/a-second-gop-a-third-party-or/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=86431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks has a very important column today in which he proposes a new, moderate wing of the Republican Party, standing in opposition to the Rush-Fox-Tea Party extremists. He posits two key tenets for this coalition:  It would be based on the idea that America is being hit simultaneously by two crises, which you might call the Mancur Olson crisis and the Charles Murray crisis. Olson argued that nations decline because their aging institutions get bloated and sclerotic and retard national dynamism. Murray argues that America is coming apart, dividing into two nations — one with high education levels, stable families and good opportunities and the other with low education levels, unstable families and bad opportunities. This is an interesting combination. It argues more for a new party than for a new wing of the Republican Party. Many Democrats would feel uncomfortable with the government reform solutions required to solve the Mancur Olsen crisis&#8211;it would require breaking the work-rule and seniority power of public employees unions on the local, state and federal levels. Republicans, obviously, would have a lot of trouble with the government support programs required by the Murray crisis. But there are three other components that would be necessary for a coherent new political vision: The Military Domestic Values System: I&#8217;ve done extensive interviewing with veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. They&#8217;re almost universally disgusted with politics as it now operates in this country. Most of them would support a candidate or organization that adhered to two of their core values:  You leave no wounded behind (the military equivalent of the inequality crisis) and No One is Entitled to Anything&#8211;there is a reciprocal responsibility: you earn whatever benefits you get.  These seem, at first glance, contradictory. But they represent a new synthesis of opportunity and responsibility. And they are undergirded by a third core military value: you get the job done, whatever it takes, no bitching and moaning. Foreign Policy Realism: This also comes out of my interviews with returning veterans. You only send American troops off to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=86431&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/29/a-second-gop-a-third-party-or/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	<primary_category>Republican Party</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/2012-election/republican-party/</primary_category_link>
		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/82d9b09d6bf4a8d7cc755c73ad7a3ae5?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F2.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">jklein1271</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
